Mmmm. Plastic.
Life After Humans
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Mmmm. Plastic.
I watched this when it was on History HD two months back and read World Without Us back in December. The book was pretty interesting. I didn't mind it jumping around a bit, but some parts were more interesting than others.
The special wasn't bad. It could have been better, but for what it was, it was pretty decent.
Nat-Geo? We don't get the channel, but I'd pretty much just call it National Geographic. Nat-Geo sounds too much like some hipster phrase. I don't call History channel "Hist" and Discovery "Disc" either.
The special wasn't bad. It could have been better, but for what it was, it was pretty decent.
Nat-Geo? We don't get the channel, but I'd pretty much just call it National Geographic. Nat-Geo sounds too much like some hipster phrase. I don't call History channel "Hist" and Discovery "Disc" either.
Incidently, today it was revealed that The History Channel has changed its name to just "History."
For rats and seagulls, perhaps.
Didn't they do that a few weeks ago along the same time they changed the channel identifying watermark.
Probably. I heard about it today, though so I assumed it was a very recent change.
As someone who has hunted I understand all to well the unfair advantage that man has over the animal kingdom - hence my incredulity at the comparison you make between the harm animals do to man and vice versa.You are a hunter, and *you* are the one who's ragging on your own species like this?
Hunting gives me a unique insight into and appreciation for the natural world. I understand the sometimes grim reality of the struggle for life in a way that folks who think of meat as something they get at the supermarket simply do not have.
What I find distressing is the nature of your statement and the thought process behind it.
By framing the question as you did you seem to imply that because I am a hunter I should in someway feel indifferent to the creatures that I kill during a hunt. As if only being a "vegan tree-hugger" or PETA activist is the accepted way that someone can be a conservationist or feel like man has done significant damage to the world. Sadly this is all to common a view among urbanites who tend to hold silly ideas in this regard.
Unlike most urbanites I don't need to anthropomorphize animals to have respect for them. Animals are not people and they should not be treated as if they were. But simply because they are not people does not mean that we have a right to abuse them.
It is important to note that I do not take "pleasure" in hunting in the sense that I get some morbid thrill at taking the life of a living creature. Quite the contrary - I respect that animal and I am in awe of Nature and it does sadden me to take that life away. But I appreciate the fact that the creature gave its life to sustain mine and every meal I have takes on a very special character - it is something that only those who actually do it can really know.
I never said we did.
well perhaps not directly, but by equating animal "violence" toward humans to the fact that we have a destructive impact on animals via deforestation,pollution, poaching and other generally irresponsible behavior it does seem indicate a certain level of indifference.
I am not indifferent. I simply don't think that humans are always evil or that animals are always good.
Acknowledging that as whole humanity has caused alot of harm to the natural environment is not the same as saying humans are always evil. Moreover, it is silly to label animal behavior in terms of "good" or "evil" - animals are innocent in that they do not attack out of intentional malice but simply an underlying instinct.
Plus to be perfectly honest to qualify animals as good or bad doesn't make any sense to me. Animals are animals not humans and as such shouldn't shouldn't be judged by the same standards we judge other humans.
you think all them cats were still living in that building when it fell down?
They would've run for safety at the first pre-collapse tremors. Cats are very alert.
TrekkieGirl
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I watched it, at least an hour in, but frankly I got pretty bored after seeing the 1,000 reiteration of "CARS AND BUILDINGS WILL SLOWLY CRUMBLE. PLANTS WILL GROW TALL".
90% of it was "Wow...uh, no kidding?
", though I liked the segments on domesticated animals...
90% of it was "Wow...uh, no kidding?
", though I liked the segments on domesticated animals...
I read it. It was really good, although somewhat misleading because the book is ony about 50-66 percent about post-human earth.
