Thursday, July 19, 2012
My plan for the oceans.
Everyone has a plan for something, wether it be a wedding, your life, or evn your day, you probably know what you're doing. Well, I have plans like that too, but I also have a plan for saving our planets most important resource- the oceans. Here it is, simplified, but anyway... Okay, first off we need to limit fishing so extremely that only people who absolutely need to eat fish can. To me, fish dosen't seem to be a luxury food but that is where we are heading. We take way too much out, and not in the sense that we are taking out just that fish. To help you better understand I will create a scenario. We are longline fishing for Tuna in the Gulf of Mexico. In the morning, you check your lines. Out of your 100,000 hooks, only 500 are Tuna. The rest are other fish which you throw back into the ocean. Dead. See what I mean now? That's called bycatch. You are bound to get some, but we have to also manage bycatch. Next point in my plan. Stop oil drilling for a period of time. With the state of our Oceans worsening every day, we can't afford to have another oil spill, and an oil spill in the Arctic may push the planet to it's tipping point. Third point, marine mammal capture. We have to stop the capture of dolphins, porpoises, and others like dugong, etc. it sends out a wrong image. Next, media explosion. Remember the overnight sensation that was KONY 2012? Yeah, it did worse to invisible children than good. Everyone hopped on the bandwagon and left it days later, humiliating the cause because of the epic failure that the video campaign was. See where I'm going? We can't afford to have a crappy epidemic of a video that will have facebook exploding and youtube cheering. We need a group of stable, well educated, and brave people to do this alone. Not with the help of the hipster population. (Nothing against hipsters) That does not mean that the public should not know what's going on, just not a viral video that gains wanna be activists. Along with this media thing is the hit television show Whale Wars. It is the least bit of activism, it's eco-terrorism. You can't solve this problem by harassing the people who cause this problem. Rather than just sitting at home watching and rooting for Sea Shepard and changing your facebook picture to Paul Watson bacause he is in prision you should get on the internet and start media protests or even try to change Asians minds and have them boycott or something! Seriously. Well, that's pretty much it. Remember, be rebellious, break the rules, and try something new. Have a nice day!
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