Red Alert 1 billion Oysters killed by Acid Ocean shorewaters

June 16, 2009
Acid Ocean killing Billions of Shellfish – Red Alert!
Dear President Barack Obama
Thank you for your June 2nd letter.
One billion dead seed oysters from acid ocean waters are a huge Red Alert.*
In 1980 I assembled a bibliography of the “Economic Viability of the Marine Resources” for Puget Sound. Seed oysters were a huge contributor to the potential of hundreds of millions of dollars in 1970 dollars is a reality now. The Japanese in the 1970s were buying wild seed oysters from Washington to grow on rafts producing 15,000 pounds of protein per surface acre. * Clip of front page article in Seattle Times follows.
Carbon dioxide absorption capacity of the North Pacific has hit a “tipping point”. Now acidic ocean waters are being pulled from deep waters onto Washington and Oregon shore waters where for the past four years seed oysters are no longer able to grow. The same problem can dissolve the shells of a primary food source of Pacific Northwest Salmon. Chinook salmon are already listed as an Endangered Species. Farm raise salmon hurts my liver. The signs are dire. One billion dead seed oysters (the canaries in the ocean) have delivered a very dire warning!
The Corpracrats (democratic and republican) representing vested interests of their corporate contributors are standing in the way of taking the actions that will be needed to solve the problem of the oceans becoming acidic. In the mean time the oceans have less than forty years before they are dead maybe even sooner for major parts of it. No coal is ‘clean’. So called plans for making coal clean burning are decades away thanks to Congressional Corpracrats rewarding major contributors with free Cap and Trade vouchers, delayed compliance dates, etc.
My life’s focus has been on finding solutions to the major challenges we are facing today. Married to a relative of Mahatma Gandhi I researched and wrote how specifically to apply the principles of M.K. Gandhi. I strategized with world leaders on global survival at Oxford, etc.
From your actions and appointments it is apparent that there are gaps in your education and among your advisors on how specifically to solve the many difficult and different challenges that are linked together and need to be solved at the same time.
Not since the 1980 Global 2000 Report to President Carter in three volumes has anyone addressed multiple problems and their relationship. It was the first and only report by any national government on the economic, demographic, resource, and environmental future of the world. It sold over 1.5 million copies in eight languages. I bought a copy and read it. The Japanese had it translated and formed a commission to study how to avert the problems for our common future that the report revealed. Ask President Carter about it. Please read it or delegate an update of the thirty year old report. Comparing the two could provide justification to make major changes.
There is a way to solve the ‘energy crisis’ along with all of the linked challenges but you dismissed the internet writers’ third most asked question of you without thought or investigation. (Contrary to your statement that you didn’t like to comment on issues that you had not studied.) I have been assembling an economic briefing packet for your consideration of a solution that could solve several problems and bring in huge amounts of money (several trillion in 10 years). Over 500 economists agree with me, some from Harvard. It is comprehensive and referenced.
Do you want to know what would solve the challenges of: 1) Global Warming: 2) Agra-biz contributing to huge increases in medical costs; logging of the last 3% of old growth forests for toilet paper; reduce crime and the cost of prisons; and produce jobs for millions of people?
I await your reply and request for the briefing packet on how specifically to solve a number of critically linked challenges. Would you like it digital, via mail or both? Is there a general systems policy staff member to address it too specifically?

Speaking and working for Our Seventh Generation,
Theresa Marie K. Gandhi
www.tmgandhi.com tm@tmgandhi.com