China; Turning The South China Sea Into A Dead Zone. Scarborough Shoal

     Every shoal, every coral reef, every island, every atoll in the South China Sea that China or any nation destroys in order to build airstrips, military bases, missile launching pads and so forth, means less fish and other marine life. But apparently this does not matter. Some people have decided humans can live without fish and healthy oceans, but humans cannot live without weapons.
     It is not enough that every single day, thousands of tons of plastics, styrofoam and other garbage end up in the Pacific ocean, a completely unaddressed nightmare that is choking the life out of the Pacific. Fukushima, still the source of radiative water pouring into the Pacific, does not help. Adding to the environmental nightmare is China's destruction of coral reefs, atolls, islands and shoals in the South China Sea. Military objectives should never trump the basic human need to eat.
     The Philippines and other nations should respond by all diplomatic and economic means possible. China has considerable energy, mining and other economic projects and interests in the Philippines. It should not continue to be business as usual. If China develops and thereby destroys the Scarborough shoal, many Filipino fishermen and their families will go hungry. Many Chinese, just like Filipinos and the people of other nations that rely on the South China Sea for their food and livelihood, will suffer if the Chinese government continues the foolish pursuit of turning healthy fisheries into military dead zones.