Protecting Leatherbacks By Educating Dominica's Children Blue Planet II Behind The Scenes
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Date: 2020-08-24
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Nick
Ultimately, Blue Planet II won't make a difference. The oceans will still die. The optimism presented in the programme about the future of our seas stunts environmentalism and breeds complete apathy. People will think 'Oh that's terrible', maybe type a thing on Twitter and then not change. The changes humanity needs to make are so great, and so integrated within what it means to live in a first world country, that most people will ignore them. Things like not eating meat, or using any plastic, or using any electricity. Making these changes threaten social isolation and for a social primate like humans, this is naturally perceived as of greater importance than an distant, abstract but ultimately more important concept like plastic pollution or global warming.
Even these feel-good stories about some bloke in Trinidad saving turtles are just a drop in the ocean (no pun intended. It's one place and a single charismatic species - it breeds apathy, as I said. On the other hand, no one cares about the shrimps or the plankton or the microbiota, because they're not cute, in spite of their greater importance to the reef or the kelp beds or wherever. The direction modern conservation is going, we'll end up with tigers and pandas and sea turtles, each kept in little glass boxes safe and sound for people to take pictures of, while their habitats, ignored, die. This is another limitation of the human brain - the idea of saving a massive interconnected ecosystem like the oceans is more difficult to grasp and dedicate yourself to than saving a cute sea turtle or a sea otter or a dolphin.
Honestly, the only solution going forward is to stop everyone from breeding. Have people wrap up this generation, shut everything off and wither away. Prune one branch on the tree of life to save the millions of others which have been evolving on this planet for as long as we have.
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Ultimately, Blue Planet II won't make a difference. The oceans will still die. The optimism presented in the programme about the future of our seas stunts environmentalism and breeds complete apathy. People will think 'Oh that's terrible', maybe type a thing on Twitter and then not change. The changes humanity needs to make are so great, and so integrated within what it means to live in a first world country, that most people will ignore them. Things like not eating meat, or using any plastic, or using any electricity. Making these changes threaten social isolation and for a social primate like humans, this is naturally perceived as of greater importance than an distant, abstract but ultimately more important concept like plastic pollution or global warming.
Even these feel-good stories about some bloke in Trinidad saving turtles are just a drop in the ocean (no pun intended. It's one place and a single charismatic species - it breeds apathy, as I said. On the other hand, no one cares about the shrimps or the plankton or the microbiota, because they're not cute, in spite of their greater importance to the reef or the kelp beds or wherever. The direction modern conservation is going, we'll end up with tigers and pandas and sea turtles, each kept in little glass boxes safe and sound for people to take pictures of, while their habitats, ignored, die. This is another limitation of the human brain - the idea of saving a massive interconnected ecosystem like the oceans is more difficult to grasp and dedicate yourself to than saving a cute sea turtle or a sea otter or a dolphin.
Honestly, the only solution going forward is to stop everyone from breeding. Have people wrap up this generation, shut everything off and wither away. Prune one branch on the tree of life to save the millions of others which have been evolving on this planet for as long as we have.
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Charoen
Too much fishing nets junk and plastics to harm turtles and other animals/environments it's emergency to clean it up and be responsible species idiot human
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Too much fishing nets junk and plastics to harm turtles and other animals/environments it's emergency to clean it up and be responsible species idiot human
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GankMan
You going to a poor 3rd world country where some people barely have food for survival and ask them to care about tortoises.
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You going to a poor 3rd world country where some people barely have food for survival and ask them to care about tortoises.
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MY
can u guys plzz come to Mumbai. even I want to join this group plzz! it's a humble request, even I want to save NATURE
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can u guys plzz come to Mumbai. even I want to join this group plzz! it's a humble request, even I want to save NATURE
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