14 DAY TRIAL // It would appear it is a very good thing “The Godfather” was shot many decades ago and not sometime at the end of this century, otherwise Sal Tessio's epic line, i.e. “It's an old Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes,” probably would have lost some of its impact.
This is because, according to recent paper in the journal Global Change Biology, the world is likely to lose over 5% of its deep-sea dwellers by 2100.
What's more, the North Atlantic risks being left without 38% of the organisms currently inhabiting its bottom, The Guardian tells us.
Otherwise put, in just a few decades' time, odds are Luca Brasi would not have had all that many fish to sleep with, and would have been quite lonely.
This predicted drop in sea floor dwelling marine life need be blamed on changes in aquatic environments brought about by global warming, researchers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and France say.
Specifically, it is said that this phenomenon will first affect plants and animals living at the ocean surface. More precisely, changes in the dynamics of our world's oceans are likely to play with their food supply.
Since these surface organisms feed deep-sea dweller when they die, sink and decompose, a drop in their population is very likely to affect organisms living on the ocean floor.