“After years of overfishing, the Chinese ...”
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The word “overfishing” hardly does justice to what the Chinese are doing - something akin to what the Russians did to the whale population in the 1950s (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3092801/posts). Decimating? Nope. Raping? Pillaging? Plundering? What single word describes the total harvest of every living creature in a given area? Annihilation?
So lets re-write that opening, “After years of annihilating all sea life, the Chinese ...
I had never heard of Soviet whaling/sea raping before this.
Thanks for the heads up.