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Daniel Pauly forecasts the future

A device to detect, amplify and transmit to us the emotions and fleeting "thoughts" of animals would be useful, with a view to building our empathy

In light of the time span considered here, I think the most important development for the oceans would be a device that could detect, amplify and transmit to us the emotions and fleeting, inarticulate 鈥渢houghts鈥 of animals in such a form as to evoke analogous emotions and thoughts in human brains. This would first work with primates, then mammals in general, then the other vertebrates including fish. This would cause, obviously, a global revulsion at eating flesh of all kinds, and we would all become vegetarians.

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