Tag Ecology

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Line fishing on an industrial scale

Oct 17, ’09 1:08 AM

This is a clip from Fra­gile Para­dise, the first in a series of doc­u­ment­ar­ies by the BBC called South Pacific.

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Capitalist democracy in action: the fossil fuelled campaign for global warming

May 13, ’09 8:15 AM

Here they are, hav­ing weaselled them­selves into a pos­i­tion to dig up hugely valu­able resources from under our feet for a steal, only to flog them off to be burnt and dan­ger­ously pol­lute our only atmo­sphere. When we real­ise how dan­ger­ous it is, they use these stolen pro­ceeds to block any attempt to mend the dam­age by launch­ing a pro­pa­ganda cam­paign and buy­ing off politicians:

Obama’s key cli­mate bill hit by $45m PR cam­paign.

And people call this demo­cracy? These people are the highest of crim­in­als. For­get the war on ter­ror, what we should have is a war on fossil fuel pushers.

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Human-Crow Symbiosis

May 17, ’08 11:54 AM

It’s a tru­ism like no other that the large major­ity of us value life, and as an exten­sion of this — being a meas­ure of life—biod­iversity.

That human beings, there­fore, are to blame for a massive and ongo­ing decrease in biod­iversity is the most incrim­in­at­ing piece of evid­ence to reveal just how badly out of sync human insti­tu­tions are with their val­ues, and, of course, how out of sync they are with life itself.

The Gaia hypo­thesis indic­ates that one way or another humans will stop being the cause of this decrease in biod­iversity. Whether that means the end of our civil­isa­tion or its adapt­a­tion remains to be seen.

One dis­turb­ing prac­tice of humans, at least since we turned to agri­cul­ture, has been to seek our and des­troy other spe­cies that com­pete with us for food and ter­rit­ory. The fol­low­ing video of Joshua Klein at TED touches on this topic in an inspir­ing way.

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