Didn't the humans notice? words from a movie taking place in the future, about all the accumulated bad management practices now finally overtaking us. They were talking about frogs, they are very sensitive to their environment. They are as we speak, being hunted to extinction for food, lines of children and women walk in unison collecting them this way thru -out
most of Asia, mostly for export to Belgium and France. This has resulted in the total elimination of certain species, not unlike Napoleons army who raided every farm on their way to Russia to steal, buy, requisition every horse they could get their hands on. As a result, 3-4 breeds of horses disappeared forever. It is said Gen. Patton rescued the only survivors of the famous lippinzallers in Austria. Because of pollution, alarming amounts of frogs are born with defects.
Frog farms, are being wiped out because of illnesses. Just recently, it has come to my attention
that bee-keepers have reported 1/3rd decimated colonies because of weather changes. Not long
ago people were reporting the largest honeycombs and wasp nests ever seen, one in particular
was the entire inside of an abandoned car! Bat colonies also are dying out all over the N.E. United States. You can study all this elsewhere, but the facts are that these creatures are a crucial part
of the ecosystem and if it continues forget the billions lost-the repercussions are worse.
Fishing the great oceans seemed an endless money maker until recently. Now they trawl deeper and deeper to catch fish that used to be discarded, and are now presented as catch of the day!
I personally experienced this in Hawaii in the 70's. I used to spearfish with the locals and would barbecue anything we speared, one day a haoule (white-boy) said I'm not eating that! its an aquarium fish! It was manini-sargeant fish to you- it has chevrons like a Sgt. A few years later i notice all the food stores are selling it! Because they are running out of otherwise available fish.
if it wasn't for the efforts of major Richardson and captain graham we never would have seen a live Irish wolfhound- they bred the last ones and kept their bloodline from extinction.
Now we have a challenge to save ourselves from catastrophe, maybe we can do without the snail darter but not the frogs and bees. It seems most likely future generations wont see the polar bear or the tiger in the wild. Writting a $20.00 check to some foundation wont do the trick,
not when multinational corporations spend billions to do business at any cost.
Here's how lopsided all this is ; the snail darter gets a break in California by cutting off the water supply to farmers and now they have lost almost every farm due to water shortage. The Chinese
3 river project (dams) has caused the extinction of the Yangtze river dolphin, but you don't hear anything about it. Total mismanagement.
The philosopher Spinoza said -be very careful- in the end we might be judged by animals.
Just in --may 14- reptiles are dying off due to hot weather- too hot to hunt and they are dying off worldwide.
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