Dartblog

It happened today. The United Nations recognized a serious problem, and it—stop me if you’ve ever heard these words used sarcastically in reference to this organization—sprang into action. Real, independent experts were commissioned and studies were studied; reports reported. No official was spared; no string pulled. The professional advice was considered and mulled and transformed into new policy. Policy like a scapel: aimed at excising the dead, bringing the sickly to hale, and leaving be what was right to begin with. What was stunning was the speed. This reform came at such a reactive clip one might have said the United Nations forsaw the problem. What was also stunning was the force. It was an international fiat from the international organization, put out to all member states: There is this problem, we recognize it, we plan to mend, and here’s what we all must do.

What a pleasing end the United Nations has provided, to this systemic, institutionalized, longstanding and fundamentally crippling issue of dwindling fish eggs.