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12-21-2009, 11:06 PM
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Re: Extinct Animals That Were Photographed Alive
Yeah, I've heard/read from various sources that basically polar bears are as good as dead. At the current rate of climate disruption, they basically can't be saved. My thoughts exactly... can't imagine it's very good eating. |
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12-21-2009, 11:14 PM
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Re: Extinct Animals That Were Photographed Alive
And lacking in foresight... the big thing that really sucks is that this has all been coming to a T for centuries now, getting worse since the Industrial Revolution. I mean, only until a few decades ago, the common human train of thought was the basically destroy nature. That mentality still sort of exists, except less explicit, and it's fucked up and hard to change... Reminds me of a speech Stephen Colbert gave at the White House Press Association dinner... he tore the Bush administration apart, standing five feet from them. He's ripping on audience members and he says: "I see Jesse Jackson's here... Jesse talks kind of slow. I once interviewed him on my show; it was like boxing a glacier... and cherish that metaphor, because your grandchildren won't know what a glacier is!" |
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12-21-2009, 11:17 PM
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Re: Extinct Animals That Were Photographed Alive
Pigeons were first domesticated as a food source. They're still bred for food ("squab") and only in the last 50 years or so got their reputation as "flying rats". Passenger pigeons existed in ridiculously enourmous numbers and were a free, easy source of food when a flock was passing (I mean, they darkened the sky!). For slaves and servants, it was often their only source of meat. |
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12-21-2009, 11:19 PM
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That makes a lot more sense now, Pigeon... I guess yeah, if you were really hungry, you could just sort of shoot an arrow/throw a rock/etc into a cloud of passing birds.
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12-21-2009, 11:20 PM
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The people at the time couldn't imagine the birds ever "running out", so they went crazy with the hunting. Unfortunately, the bird's survival depended on their large numbers, so once the population dropped below a certain point, they were goners.
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12-21-2009, 11:34 PM
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Oh yeah... hell, even until a few decades ago people still didn't really get any of that. The concept of overhunting--for food or otherwise--is still common in lots of undeveloped countries. However, lots of times these days is fucking poachers
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12-21-2009, 11:35 PM
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A lot of times people take the animals we hunt for granted.
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