It's not for some people because the article contains pictures of a blue whale basically... 'torn in half' by a container that was passing by. Struck it whilst it was asleep. I know this happens often, just that there's not much footage of it.
But this really pissed me off because whales are such large, rare, beautiful, majestic creatures. And to think, as few as 5,000 blue whales left? In the world? It's truly heartbreaking.
I know some people aren't bothered or care, but this was kind of like a slap in the face, a 'wake-up call' of some sort for me.
I feel like we shouldn't even be in the ocean, in the first place. It sounds unreasonable because we do transport large containers and materials in bulk via the ocean and some of our food comes from the ocean... But bloody hell, it feels like we've taken so much from the land. We've conquered land, cleared forests and produced so much pollution - I don't really care what happens to the human population. What bothers me is how our actions, human activities, are affecting wildlife on a daily basis.
Perhaps I'm taking this a bit too far lol. But yeah, thoughts? Or is there really nothing to say and accept this?
Can they just finally go extinct so that people can stop moaning about it?
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Last edited by ArtificialGlory on May 12th, 2012 at 02:48 PM
Just be more mindful of where whales are so you don't run over them with your ships.
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Re: As few as 5,000 blue whales left in the world.
So if whales were ugly, horrific creatures, would you not give a shit? That's a little vein and messed up.
On the other hand, I'm not really that surprised anymore.
I think it's a little funny how humans only give a shit about animals becoming extinct when they're endangered. When they're numerous and thriving, they're a nuisance.
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Last edited by Tzeentch._ on May 12th, 2012 at 04:44 PM
And even if they were ugly, horrific creatures, I'd still feel the same way. Even if centipedes were becoming extinct, I'd be pretty annoyed as well because they do have a role in their ecosystem / habitat that they're in.
And I personally have always 'given a shit'. I have always cared about animals, be them in millions, thousands, or tens. Alas, one can only do so much.
True. I really meant that since we do use the ocean often as a way of transport, oil-extracting, etc., we should be more careful.
If whales were to disappear it would be a tragedy, but life would go on and eventually another kind of animal would take their niche.
I'm not saying "fvck the whales", I'm just wondering how essential they are to the ecosystem...maybe keeping krill from overpopulating?
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Because a container large enough to keep a population of blue whales and their food supply would be the size of one of the smaller Great Lakes?
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sliced in half whilst sleeping hmm... clearly a freddy kreuger victim.
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