Fuck that sea life, the shareholders must see a return!! /s
I did not know and now I am slightly angry at humans. Again.
Slightly?
As the dominant species we should take better care of the world.
But, I guess shareholder value is more important.
Slightly?
Are you blaming me for this? I did not do this!
If you eat fish that isn’t line caught, you are supporting this in some form.
I guess I’m glad I’m allergic to fish.
I’ll admit that I am not clean, but I’ll also say that this is a consumerist framing which is benefitting might and machine. We are all sinners in one shape or another under the machine because we rely on the machine.
We live under planned economies governed by the eternal hunger of the machine. They sell us shit on stick through advertisements, media control and machine collaboration.
We loken these monstrocities through the dissolvement of the machine through making oppositional societies that by grounds embrace the meaningful, and being opposed to might and machine.
How about you just try to minimise the hold the machine has on you instead of ranting poetically? And don’t start with the old ‘no ethical consumption under capitalism’ because you don’t need to actively make the world a worse place by choosing the most destructive means of consumption available to you.
How are farm fish caught? 🤔
They swim right into the styrofoam tray and wait for a worker to tuck them in with stretch wrap
Depends, but most fish farms heavily pollute the water and introduce diseases into the surrounding area.
People like you represent a fraction of the population. Most humans are just animals who deploy tools in service of their own self-interest. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Prove it!
I was on the moon when it happened!
We are monsters
That’s what billionaires who are exploiting the planet and the people want you to believe. They want you to think you are the problem. But if that were true, you could also fix it. Can you? No. Can the billionaires? YES.
They are the fucking monsters! Leeching off of others and giving nothing back. Fucking parasites that need to die in order to save the planet. Humans can live in peace with nature and have been for eons, until capitalism took rise.
You all are happy enough to pay for this to happen with your consumption of fish
Those billionaires didn’t portal into this world through some membrane from another reality. Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.
I’d guess fewer than 1/3 of people are “good” (even after being educated). The rest are just dangerously intelligent animals.
Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.
Power corrupts. Our mistake is allowing power to be concentrated.
We let the few dominate and exploit the many. Our relationship with nature is refelective of our relationship with ourself.
But the cultural focuson domination and exploitation is not biological. It’s not in our nature. The potential to dominate is. But so is the potential of cooperation and mutual aid.
Let’s try to rethink our society and behaviour to nature and each other and aim for the latter. For all our sake.
#GoogleBookchin
Wrote this on my replacement cardboard desk topper at work a few months ago. Good stuff.I’d argue that neither one stems from the other but that they are both manifestations of the same thing: our desire to dominate our environment to make our own lives (or the lives of those important to us) easier and/or safer.
Sweet
nice
Pls do not blame all of humanity for the actions of a few
I mean like 95% of us eat fish so 95% of us are partially to blame
I literally can’t remember the last time I ate any fish whatsoever.
I eat ethically sourced fish.
The ones who are suicidal and don’t feel pain I assume
IDK the many allow the few to do what they want, if we all really tried we could have this over in a week. It doesn’t even take everyone too, only like 3.5% of a population is required to overthrow a government.
remember that guy who rams whalers with his ships front filled with concrete? he really wanted and he made a difference
I hate to break it to you, but nobody asked me what I wanted.
Defeating the government is the easy part. Building something new afterwards is where it gets difficult
Yeah, cuz then we know how to kill you too.
If you want to know more and increase that anger a notch, here’s Ocean With David Attenborough showing the devastation of bottom trawling: https://youtu.be/IzG9AwlypaY
Thank you, now I hate humans even more.
@A404 As an American, I can’t understand any of these measurements without Statues of Liberty, football fields, or hamburgers
The statue of liberty is is 93 meters tall. One kilometer is 1000 meters. This supertawler is 10 times the size of the statue of liberty
“Okay but what is that in gumballs?”
-🐦
Yeah but we got the price of canned tuna way down!!! ~(until the inevitable scarcity and population decline hits)~
I think that gives me more thalassophobia than any animal I could find in open ocean.
Imagine getting caught in it
No. I don’t think I will.
This is your daily reminder to carry a knife with you. Or a multitool, a Leatherman would do the trick.
a Leatherman would do the trick
But enough about last night at the club!
Yeah, I’ll be 30 meters deep in a trawling net half a kilometer long, manoeuver my way past the piling realize to the outer boundary, reach into my pocket and start sawing my way through inch thick reinforced cord until I make a hole big enough to wriggle through and swim to safety!
If you are 30 meters deep in the open ocean without a diving suit, diving knife (presumably sharpened), and an oxygen tank, idk what to tell you — don’t do that in the first place?
I mean 30 meters laterally. End of net, 30 meters of fish & marine mammals & whatever else is caught in the net, me in the middle several meters from the edges, incoming tons of marine life to pack on top.
Honestly, having oxygen would make the terror of a prolonged death worse.
I don’t think this would play out the way you’re thinking. Regardless of the incorrect perception of the 30 meter depth, you would still need to be considerably deep to get caught in one of these nets. Again, if you’re there without any tools and you’re that deep, fuck man the only thing I can say is do not do that lol. There’s a reason saws are very common on a variety of vessels, ocean or otherwise. Divers are definitely trained to carry cutting tools on them, I know I was taught to carry a dive knife and wire cutters — to be honest a saw doesn’t sound ridiculous.
