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Over-population is one big elephant in the room. The other one is disproportionate and ridiculously unbalanced consumption and wealth distribution. You can neve
by Santosh83 6y ago
Over-population is one big elephant in the room. The other one is disproportionate and ridiculously unbalanced consumption and wealth distribution. You can never succeed in getting very poor people to care about their numbers or about the Earth.
- thebooktocome 6y agoSorry, but we're talking about whales and dolphins here. Poor people don't meaningfully contribute to the ritual overfishing of the oceans. They don't cause massive oil spills. The poor don't tend to operate the kinds of active sonar that confuses cetacean navigation. Those are decisions made by people with capital.
- Santosh83 6y agoI'm replying to the parent just above my comment who said overpopulation is the primary threat.
- pvaldes 6y agoIn this case it was a engineers team that just did not cared to include a safe corridor for big fauna.
- indymike 6y agoIt is easy to try to blame a problem caused by people consuming on the people that own the means of harvesting. The demand for harvesting animals from the commons (i.e. seas) or mining oil exists regardless of who owns it. Someone else will step in to provide the food and the energy. The problem remains demand, and regardless of economic status, people contribute to that. The whale in the room isn't the whale. It's the low cost of harvesting fish, or pumping oil compared to the alternatives.