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Post by Spottedleaf on Oct 4, 2007 18:35:09 GMT -5
This to me is a very very moving video commercial. It says so much about what the world was like back then and it sickens me to think that now, right now, our world is much worse off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3QKvEy0AIk (Crying Indian Commercial) I'm doing my own version of this video in my sketchbook. It has that much emotion to me. And what's bad is that there are places that are still like that, people that are still like that, and yet there are so few of us who truely has an understanding of the nature in our world. There are too few of us who just watch something like this happen and do nothing about it... Now is the time to change, it is up to us. Not the adults, not the people who messed it up, US. Right now, the next generation has the chance to change the world for the better...again that generation is us. ((this whole thing was written by me, not someone else...Yes I am capable of actually saying something really deep.))
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Post by I <3 Menina! on Mar 26, 2008 13:12:16 GMT -5
Our Oceans in Peril Jean-Michael Cousteau talks about our Oceans
By Spirit (yes, me!)
Some estimate 100 million or more will be displaced. Around 10,000 have already been evacuated.
Climate change will affect us all. If those 100 million are displaced, then where will they go? Into cities that will become overpopulated? Into the country that will loose precious farmland?
Its not just the evacuees that will cause problems for our earth. The North Atlantic Gulf Stream is slowly being cooled by melting ice from Greenland. This will cause Northern Europe to become cold.
Already, 50% of fish are threatened, among other sea creatures. Coral reefs, sharks, and plants are also threatened.
In 1972 acts to protect the Gray Whales went into affect. There were only hundreds left. They made a big comeback- approximately 225,000.
Change can also be quick and disastrous. El Nino is a constant climate change that can have bad consequences on the oceans and the life there. The traditional food of the gray whales went from a population of 250,000 to 17,000.
The powerful way that Cousteau and his teammates talked was very moving. They have gone around the world to explore the changes and issues that face different countries. However, Cousteau calls himself a ‘communicator.’
They sit down and talk with governments or decision-makers and try to appeal to them to change or do what is necessary to do there part in helping our planet, specifically the oceans.
People often oppose climate change (also known as global warming). They try to present facts, but Cousteau says the only real reason for the opposition is because “people not wanting to change.”
He also points out the religious and economic factor. God’s promise in the bible was that he would never flood the earth again, so there’s nothing to fear.
Economically, the industry of whaling alone could create a huge loss of money and culture, especially to the Japanese. In Japan, whaling in like hunting buffalo to the Indians, they use the meat for food and the bones for tools or decorations.
Ocean life cannot be protected by one man or even one nation alone. People need to accept that we can either change our ways or loose our ability to live as we have on this earth.
Cousteau estimates that 99% of people who learn about this change. He targets the local issues- such as run-offs in our area- that have an effect on our earth.
As his son put it, “For me, my favorite (experience) is the next one, because I think its part of why we do it. I think it’s a great part of why. It’s the passion; it’s going to see what’s around the corner. Going to see what’s beyond the next wave or the next coral reef.
“Of course it’s the discovery and the adventure and all that, but it’s also inherent in what we learn in that time. That constant feel of learning, that practical learning, rather then reading in a textbook is always the driving factor for me, for the next experience- whether it’s a good or bad experience.
“Sometimes you come back after seeing a very atrocious thing that we’ve done to our planet, but that allows us, gives us the information, gives us the power to be able to bring these things back by different media so that people can see what’s going on in our world.
“Whether its floating garbage in the pacific that’s twice the size of Texas - and that’s just the floating stuff – to being able to free dive with humpback whales in the Hawaiian Islands. Its all a very meaningful experience.”
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