Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on January 02, 2017, 11:25:05 AM
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Not convinced that he makes the case
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/01/bbc-planet-earth-not-help-natural-world
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Yes, I was a bit baffled by this, as I can't see that wonderful nature films make us feel complacent. Well, they might, but he hasn't shown this. I think Attenborough is careful not to lace his films with constant warnings about extinctions, as this would make them very different.
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The author of this piece seems to assume that every human being on the globe sees programmes like this; whereas I doubt whether more than a quarter of them do - perhaps far less. Unfortunately, one can't even assume that the majority of the Western population have seen many of them - to my shame, I have only seen a couple of part-episodes of the named show, let alone that much of many of the other Attenborough programmes - I'm usually busy doing other things, even to watch any that get recorded.
Though I don't have documentary evidence to this effect, I suspect that a lot of the destruction of wildlife is carried out by those for whom economic survival comes ahead of wildlife survival - possibly resulting from the tyranny of Western-imposed free trade practices that always benefit the West far more than developing nations.
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The author of this piece seems to assume that every human being on the globe sees programmes like this; whereas I doubt whether more than a quarter of them do - perhaps far less. Unfortunately, one can't even assume that the majority of the Western population have seen many of them - to my shame, I have only seen a couple of part-episodes of the named show, let alone that much of many of the other Attenborough programmes - I'm usually busy doing other things, even to watch any that get recorded.
Though I don't have documentary evidence to this effect, I suspect that a lot of the destruction of wildlife is carried out by those for whom economic survival comes ahead of wildlife survival - possibly resulting from the tyranny of Western-imposed free trade practices that always benefit the West far more than developing nations.
aww, bless
that post is so revealing of you Hope.
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aww, bless
that post is so revealing of you Hope.
Sadly, there are enough reports from the UN and various other intergovernmental organisations to support the view, Walter. From your post, I assume you share President-elect Trump's views on things like the environment, free- and fair trade, etc.