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In Reply to: RE: The Cove: you will NEVER go to Seaworld again posted by dave c on September 08, 2009 at 21:45:01
dolphin park for that matter.I will never participate in any "swim w/ the dolphin" events, which are held at various resort locations around the world.
I will have no respect for the IWC (International Whaling Comission), which allows the Japanese to continue to kill whales for "scientific study."
While the Japanese are rightly indicted in this suspenseful documentary, many nations have contributed toward the destruction of the seas. Toxic levels of mercury in dolphins are but one of many barometers of ocean pollution.
Coral reefs are not only dieing from the warming of the oceans (a "natural" event according to some), but also from huge drift nets that literally catch everything by raking along the ocean bottom.
Most ocean fisheries are in serious decline; it is estimated that decline is as much as 90%. Further over fishing will lead to the extinction of major fisheries by 2050 or sooner.
Though I haven't seen Sharkwater, I am aware of this movie. One of the crueliest acts I have ever seen is the act of cutting off a shark's fins and throwing it back in the water . . . without fins, the shark essentially drowns. Please don't eat "sharkfin soap."
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... you (or should I say "I") can only imagine leaving the theatre stunned and silent.
The destruction humanity has wreaked upon the oceans is harder to see than than the land because its all... underwater... but the fishing stocks are dying, the reefs are dying and within 50 years we may well follow.
I have no way of checking this but in The Cove, it is stated that the world's fish stocks will disappear in around 40 years. 70% of the world's population is dependant on fish.
Between that and climate change, it seems the numbers of migrants being forced to move and who will eventually become angry and who may take up arms (anyone for a moslem/climate change/food confluence?) within our children's lifetimes?
If millions start to move then who or what could stop them?
What would you do if your family was starving?
Expect no less from others.
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