PAW[4]: fossil fuels, sea birds, and anchoveta

[Further flushing of fusty fragments . . . .]

This article is a classic (if seemingly random) testimony to the interconnectedness of the universe, and the frustratingly surprising ways that this manifests itself in the collective human experience. Frustrating because the globally pervasive network of causal influence remains surprising, at least as guaged by our institutional responses it.

Organic-would-be's want the guano; colonial powers have fought wars over it; unsustainable exploitation of fish stocks threaten the continued production of it; spiking fossil-fuel prices are causing a surge in demand for it . . .

Lest PAW be misread, while everything (Everything!) seems to me indeed to be connected to everything else, this is not to argue that all connections, at every scale, are codominant.