Daddy am I eating Flipper?

There is a lot of confusion when it comes to using the word “dolphin”. Many of us grew up watching “Flipper” on TV and were told it was a bottle nosed dolphin when it was really a porpoise. The names, dolphin and porpoise, as they are now commonly used, refer to the mammal. Dolphin also happens to be the name of a fish family. It can get confusing if you’re not careful.

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The future of space in America

With the planet reaching seven billion people this year there are issues to think about. We’ve already discussed a couple of the basic items – water and food. What we usually don’t think about until we need to is our living space.

Food ??? will there be enough to go around?

In a country that is more worried about losing weight than about how it’s going to put food the table we’re seldom concerned about where our next meal is coming from. The same isn’t true for nearly two billion people in many areas of the world.

Less water, more people ??? what to do?

With the world’s population reaching seven billion this year and rising there will be issues to confront. This increase in our numbers has and will put a severe strain on the basic planetary resources that are needed to sustain us. Those resources include water, food and living space.