Fri 20 Feb 2009
Humans Not Only Species Affected by Recession
Posted by Megan Dorn under Random thoughts
During 2008, ________ dropped drastically, and University of Florida researchers expect this trend to continue throughout 2009. No, I’m not talking about home values, the unemployment rate or anything else related to the economy. So what is ________?
Shark attacks.
That’s right. The number of shark attacks worldwide has apparently been following the same pattern as our economy—slowing in 2008 and continuing to slow further in 2009.
I would think that experts would blow this off as a mere coincidence, but that isn’t the case. Instead they conclude that the reduced number of shark attacks is an indirect result of the recession. Basically they believe that because fewer people can afford to take beach vacations that fewer people will be in the water and so fewer people will be attacked by sharks.
Personally, I’m still going to chalk this up as a regular old coincidence, but I suppose it’s possible that the effects of the recession are being felt by humans and animals alike.
Have a great weekend!
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:09 am
Hahaha this is quite the coincidence. By how much has the rate of shark attacks dropped i wonder?
July 27th, 2009 at 8:47 am
the Economic Recession has been pretty hard on us. some of my friends lost their job because of the massive job cuts. i just hope that our economy becomes better in the following years.
August 15th, 2009 at 3:21 am
i am hoping that the global economy would recover from this economic recession. life has been very hard with these massive job cuts.
September 6th, 2009 at 3:05 am
Economic recession created huge unemployment rates around the world. I think the world economy is already on the road to recovery.
October 17th, 2009 at 10:49 am
the economic recession made a lot of workers jobless. my best friend and me lost our jobs because of job cuts. i hope that our economy would recover soon.