Europeans need only look across the North Atlantic to see what could be in store for their cod fisher.In Canada they were too busy with making plans， setting expansive goals, and then allocating fish, and lotof it, instead of making sound business plans to match fishing with the limited availability of the resourceCod populations in European waters are now so depleted that scientists have recently warned that "alfisheries in this area that target cod should be closed."<br> The Canadian calamity demonstrates that we now have the technological capability to find andannihilate every commercial fish stock, in any ocean and do irreparable damage to entire ecosystems in theprocess. In Canadas case, a two billion dollar recovery bill may only be a part of the total long-term costs.The costs to individuals and desperate communities now deprived of meaningful and sustainableemployment is staggering.<br> When penicillin became widely available during the Second World War, it was a medical miracle,rapidly vanquishing the biggest wartime killer —— infected wounds. Discovered initially by a French medicalstudent, Ernest Duchesne, in 1896, and then rediscovered by Scottish physician Alexander Fleming in 1928Penicillium crippled many types of disease-causing bacteria. But just four years after drug companiesbegan mass-producing penicillin in 1943, microbes began appearing that could resist it.
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