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Humans Are Like Yeast, Chesapeake Edition
Posted by Brendan on July 16th, 2008 filed in extinction, pollution
As any homebrewer knows, yeast eats sugar and excretes carbon dioxide and alcohol. Then the yeast dies, essentially drowning in its own shit.
Human beings have a similar tendency, and you can see it at work in Maryland, where the crabbing industry may be dead for good:
Crabs have thrived in the bottom muck of the Chesapeake [...]
