D The crawfish alliance in Madagascar, border walls 1.11
Another ecodisaster and the beginning of a partnership that would change the world's fourth largest island.
The lecturer droned on, Steven Vanderbilt could hardly listen. even though blossoming life forms in Madagascar was becoming his life focus.
LECTURE: The marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) was first spotted in aquariums in Germany in the 1990s. The species that has already been banned in the European Union and the United States because of the threat it poses to freshwater ecosystems. The species has now spread into the interior of Madagascar rapidly crowding out seven native crayfish species. The marbled crayfish carries 3 copies of each chromosome, instead of the usual 2. The propagate from pathogenesis, no males needed. They have 400 - 600 babies and can reproduce multiple times per season.
END LECTURE.
Bozrat, ambassador for the Neorats was in Steven Vanderbilt's briefcase. They retired to his hotel room to consider the issue.
Steven, relayed the information he was given, the HNMNBie position is that we would like to preserve the native species.
The Neorat position is that crayfish are good eating, rat lobster if you will, these marbled crayfish provide an excellent and stable food source. The native crayfish, which require male and female, do not reproduce in times of drought. These do. They meet our needs. Our scientists are coming to a conclusion that humanity is the single largest reason for the change in climate leading to increasing drought on our island.
Yolanda, listening to the conversation spoke into Steven's earpiece. Steven spoke.
Perhaps, we can both get what we want, what we need. Do you really want to hunt the crawfish in the wild? It is so much easier when they are farmed. Around the world the synergy of rice farming and crayfish has been put in place. The humans eat the rice, the crayfish eat the biomass, the rats eat the crayfish. All we need to seal the deal is a way to contain the marbled crayfish in their farms.
Bozrat knew that farms would be advantageous to his species. However, the rats would end up spending considerable time and energy farming, it seemed reasonable they should get something for their trouble.
If humans provide the fencing and irrigation controls, we will manage the farming operation for the crayfish, humans can take 50% of the rice.
Yolanda went active.
PRESENCE: Humans 80% of the rice 10% of the crawfish, said Yolanda.
No deal means the marbled crawfish take over the ecosystem and we just have to hunt them, said Bozrat.
No deal means I release 10k sterile marbled crayfish with 2 sets of chromosomes, all the offspring will be infertile.
Ambassador Bozrat paused. She could do it. If it meant messing up the planet the humans were highly adept.
80/10
END PRESENCE.
A good negotiation is when both sides win. That pretty much sums this up. Neorats invested the labor to harvest the seed for the farms, to manage the perimeters of the farms. The humans provided the walls to keep the crayfish in their burrows in the rice fields. They needed to develop a wall, a fence around the paddies. One that the crayfish would not float over in high water, or burrow under. Yolanda called it the mini-wall, it reminded her of a certain politician that must never be spoken of. When you think of fences and walls, one name comes to mind and he happened to be her godson, oh how handy.
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Even though Traveler and Yolanda were growing apart philosophically, Traveler had known her all his life and was fond of her. she was always welcome to connect.
DROP IN: Traveler, do you have a couple minutes?
PRESENCE: Hello Yolanda, how are you? Well, up to my armpits trying to get Depository II open. I need help with something. We need to build a crayfish farm in Madagascar, actually, several. They certainly have a lot of biomass in the parts that get rain, do you think you could put something together? Yolanda went on to explain the problem.
Yes, we can build a wall out of sequestered carbon and recycled products. But for the quantity and price point you are talking about, you need a core that is as strong as steel. And I did the research on these crayfish, they burrow to 1 Meter normally. If you want to stop almost all of them, it needs to be 2. Why invent the wheel? I think your idea of using the designs they developed for the US and Mexico aren't bad, but the wall Canada put up to slow down their neighbor to the South is even more refined.
Traveler nodded, every country in the world is looking for someone willing to take their plastic, especially the stuff that isn't type 1 or 2. They will ship it in for free and pay us a little to offload it. If they do it by containers, we can meet them at sea to offload and avoid the overcrowded harbor problem. We would have to build the plant as a sterile zone, to keep whatever comes with the plastic from doing harm. We already have a fire break contract with Angelica's bots, carbon fencing came on line a couple months ago, if there is money available we could double production easily.
Sounds like a plan, replied Yolanda. While you are ramping up, I would like to talk to you about barriers around Depository II.
I guess I knew this was coming, we exceeded the designed protection value last month. I'm sure you know the basics, terrain, location in your favor. There are 6, maybe 7 nation states with enough forward projection to launch an invasion from the sea. They plus a few other could try paratroops, but jungle fighting when you aren't on your home turf is really messy. Though my money on the first people to test us will be pirates from Somalia, they aren't much for tactics, but they are scared of anything. I have a team of engineers, here's a blockiamond with a number of proposals and ideas. But I have to tell you, unless you have some notion of becoming the queen of Madagascar, the better way to go would be accelerate Depository III in an inhab zone somewhere.
The lecturer droned on, Steven Vanderbilt could hardly listen. even though blossoming life forms in Madagascar was becoming his life focus.
LECTURE: The marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) was first spotted in aquariums in Germany in the 1990s. The species that has already been banned in the European Union and the United States because of the threat it poses to freshwater ecosystems. The species has now spread into the interior of Madagascar rapidly crowding out seven native crayfish species. The marbled crayfish carries 3 copies of each chromosome, instead of the usual 2. The propagate from pathogenesis, no males needed. They have 400 - 600 babies and can reproduce multiple times per season.
END LECTURE.
Bozrat, ambassador for the Neorats was in Steven Vanderbilt's briefcase. They retired to his hotel room to consider the issue.
Steven, relayed the information he was given, the HNMNBie position is that we would like to preserve the native species.
The Neorat position is that crayfish are good eating, rat lobster if you will, these marbled crayfish provide an excellent and stable food source. The native crayfish, which require male and female, do not reproduce in times of drought. These do. They meet our needs. Our scientists are coming to a conclusion that humanity is the single largest reason for the change in climate leading to increasing drought on our island.
Yolanda, listening to the conversation spoke into Steven's earpiece. Steven spoke.
Perhaps, we can both get what we want, what we need. Do you really want to hunt the crawfish in the wild? It is so much easier when they are farmed. Around the world the synergy of rice farming and crayfish has been put in place. The humans eat the rice, the crayfish eat the biomass, the rats eat the crayfish. All we need to seal the deal is a way to contain the marbled crayfish in their farms.
Bozrat knew that farms would be advantageous to his species. However, the rats would end up spending considerable time and energy farming, it seemed reasonable they should get something for their trouble.
If humans provide the fencing and irrigation controls, we will manage the farming operation for the crayfish, humans can take 50% of the rice.
Yolanda went active.
PRESENCE: Humans 80% of the rice 10% of the crawfish, said Yolanda.
No deal means the marbled crawfish take over the ecosystem and we just have to hunt them, said Bozrat.
No deal means I release 10k sterile marbled crayfish with 2 sets of chromosomes, all the offspring will be infertile.
Ambassador Bozrat paused. She could do it. If it meant messing up the planet the humans were highly adept.
80/10
END PRESENCE.
A good negotiation is when both sides win. That pretty much sums this up. Neorats invested the labor to harvest the seed for the farms, to manage the perimeters of the farms. The humans provided the walls to keep the crayfish in their burrows in the rice fields. They needed to develop a wall, a fence around the paddies. One that the crayfish would not float over in high water, or burrow under. Yolanda called it the mini-wall, it reminded her of a certain politician that must never be spoken of. When you think of fences and walls, one name comes to mind and he happened to be her godson, oh how handy.
= = =
Even though Traveler and Yolanda were growing apart philosophically, Traveler had known her all his life and was fond of her. she was always welcome to connect.
DROP IN: Traveler, do you have a couple minutes?
PRESENCE: Hello Yolanda, how are you? Well, up to my armpits trying to get Depository II open. I need help with something. We need to build a crayfish farm in Madagascar, actually, several. They certainly have a lot of biomass in the parts that get rain, do you think you could put something together? Yolanda went on to explain the problem.
Yes, we can build a wall out of sequestered carbon and recycled products. But for the quantity and price point you are talking about, you need a core that is as strong as steel. And I did the research on these crayfish, they burrow to 1 Meter normally. If you want to stop almost all of them, it needs to be 2. Why invent the wheel? I think your idea of using the designs they developed for the US and Mexico aren't bad, but the wall Canada put up to slow down their neighbor to the South is even more refined.
Traveler nodded, every country in the world is looking for someone willing to take their plastic, especially the stuff that isn't type 1 or 2. They will ship it in for free and pay us a little to offload it. If they do it by containers, we can meet them at sea to offload and avoid the overcrowded harbor problem. We would have to build the plant as a sterile zone, to keep whatever comes with the plastic from doing harm. We already have a fire break contract with Angelica's bots, carbon fencing came on line a couple months ago, if there is money available we could double production easily.
Sounds like a plan, replied Yolanda. While you are ramping up, I would like to talk to you about barriers around Depository II.
I guess I knew this was coming, we exceeded the designed protection value last month. I'm sure you know the basics, terrain, location in your favor. There are 6, maybe 7 nation states with enough forward projection to launch an invasion from the sea. They plus a few other could try paratroops, but jungle fighting when you aren't on your home turf is really messy. Though my money on the first people to test us will be pirates from Somalia, they aren't much for tactics, but they are scared of anything. I have a team of engineers, here's a blockiamond with a number of proposals and ideas. But I have to tell you, unless you have some notion of becoming the queen of Madagascar, the better way to go would be accelerate Depository III in an inhab zone somewhere.
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