I Would Highly Recommend This Documentary - Racing Extinction.

I would HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend watching this documentary called Racing Extinction. It's a wonderful documentary about how us as humans we are slowly destroying our world and killing off many species of animals and sea life, the amount of Different species of wild life that has already come to extinction because of our everyday actions. We as humans tend to only care about ourselves and forgot about what beautiful life surrounds us they estimate that in a 100 years from now 50% of all wildlife will be completely gone.

Here is a few quotes from the documentary.

"When you think of mass extinction, you think of a major catastrophe, like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This time, humanity is the meteor.”

"With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea, no matter where on earth you live" .... and yet were destroying it.


I'm not here to preach , just thought it would be a great watch for everyone , it talks about dolphins , manta rays , whales , fish , sharks , animals even down to organism we can't even see.


Just a wonderful documentary , they did a fantastic job with it.


If anyone does happen to watch it please let me know how you feel at the end ?

last quote to end off my little speech

" It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"

 

Not on Netflix, so probably won't bother. The given quotes actually makes me believe I won't like it.

 

Not on Netflix, so probably won't bother. The given quotes actually makes me believe I won't like it.

Then just move on...This is why are world is the way it is.

Just out of curiosity do you love fish? any other animals?

 

Then just move on...This is why are world is the way it is.

Just out of curiosity do you love fish? any other animals?

I wouldn't be here if I didn't

 

I wouldn't be here if I didn't

Then the documentary is a beautiful thing to watch, you would be shocked as to fine out what's going on with our fish.

 

Perhaps. My fascination with fish goes well beyond fishkeeping. I just don't like the misanthropic undertones.

 

Perhaps. My fascination with fish goes well beyond fishkeeping. I just don't like the misanthropic undertones.

that's what I mean it talks about all ocean life , The documentary has nothing to do with hating on humankind , it's to show us what where doing and how we can do little things to change to make it a better world.

for ex in Indonesia Manta rays (beautiful giant rays)are being hunted to sell to China , because Chineese believe their dried gills will "cure" cancer which it has been proven it doesn't it's only a myth, Manta rays can only have 1 baby a year so from the years of hunting them they are now becoming extinct. Manta Rays meat is inedible, so they kill this beautiful giant soul just for 2 parts of it. The people in the documentary go undercover to try and figure it out what's going on , in the end they fought and fought for it to be illegal to hunt Manta rays and they won , it is now illegal to hunt Manta rays worldwide but in return suggested the people in Indonesia turn the hunting into allowing tourist to come visit and swim with the Manta rays in the ocean which they end up actually making more money. that's only 10 minutes of the documentary . They also go undercover in China and find out they are illegally hunting whales (also endangered) for their oil which is a criminal offence illegal and they take pictures, videos ect risking their lives for these animals because the people doing the illegal crimes will try to fight them , threaten them ect...these people who are illegally hunting whales get caught and serve time in jail ect..

that's only a smidge of the documentary , it's really just explaining how us as humans and animals , life , the world, we could all be together as one and have a brighter future then the path were headed to.

 

I will definitely watch it thank and can I ask you to watch the documentary chasing coral it is about coral bleaching and the effect we have had on our the most amazing ecosystem on this planet but its quite upsetting in the end

 

I will definitely watch it thank and can I ask you to watch the documentary chasing coral it is about coral bleaching and the effect we have had on our the most amazing ecosystem on this planet but its quite upsetting in the end

I agree, Chasing Coral is on Netflix and is a fantastic documentary. I will watch Racing Extinction too now

 

I will diffinetly, thanks so much , They do talk about coral in the documentary Racing Extinction, how much is already gone burnt dead underneath the ocean. I will probably watch it tonight since its Friday.

 

Just watched it and it has opens m eyes to what I can actually do to help a little. I changing to soy milk and only have beef and seafood as a treat once a month pot's of veggies from now on and I'm planning a family trip to the great barrier reef this summer

 

Not a movie, but a really good read about the ocean of you are in to that is Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas Book

Also, check out the book The World Is Blue, by Sylvia Earle. Highly recommend both!

 

I would HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend watching this documentary called Racing Extinction. It's a wonderful documentary about how us as humans we are slowly destroying our world and killing off many species of animals and sea life, the amount of Different species of wild life that has already come to extinction because of our everyday actions. We as humans tend to only care about ourselves and forgot about what beautiful life surrounds us they estimate that in a 100 years from now 50% of all wildlife will be completely gone.

Here is a few quotes from the documentary.

"When you think of mass extinction, you think of a major catastrophe, like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This time, humanity is the meteor.”

"With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea, no matter where on earth you live" .... and yet were destroying it.


I'm not here to preach , just thought it would be a great watch for everyone , it talks about dolphins , manta rays , whales , fish , sharks , animals even down to organism we can't even see.


Just a wonderful documentary , they did a fantastic job with it.


If anyone does happen to watch it please let me know how you feel at the end ?

last quote to end off my little speech

" It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"

I am interested in watching because of the quotes...

 

Haven't seen either documentary, but I am fully aware of both problems. Misanthropic undertones aside, humans in general are largely unaware of the absolute havoc we are wreaking on the natural world. We are the single most dangerous, mass-extinction perpetuating, rainforest destroying, water/atmosphere polluting disaster to ever befall the planet. 99% of the damage has been done in the last 150 years and it is still accelerating. The speed at which it is happening is astounding, and it is being almost completely ignored by everyone. To our own peril. It is quite insane. The global ecosystem is far more fragile than most people realize. I am a man of great faith, and God loves us all very much (did I just say that on the internet? gasp!), but I assure you, He allows us to make our own choices, suffer the consequences of others' choices, and He will not save us from ourselves. So, yeah, make documentaries, educate yourself and become aware. Spread the word around, we maybe still have 100 years or so to change direction. Maybe. But don't get too used to lions, tigers, elephants, etc, they will likely be gone in our lifetime.

 

Haven't seen either documentary, but I am fully aware of both problems. Misanthropic undertones aside, humans in general are largely unaware of the absolute havoc we are wreaking on the natural world. We are the single most dangerous, mass-extinction perpetuating, rainforest destroying, water/atmosphere polluting disaster to ever befall the planet. 99% of the damage has been done in the last 150 years and it is still accelerating. The speed at which it is happening is astounding, and it is being almost completely ignored by everyone. To our own peril. It is quite insane. The global ecosystem is far more fragile than most people realize. I am a man of great faith, and God loves us all very much (did I just say that on the internet? gasp!), but I assure you, He allows us to make our own choices, suffer the consequences of others' choices, and He will not save us from ourselves. So, yeah, make documentaries, educate yourself and become aware. Spread the word around, we maybe still have 100 years or so to change direction. Maybe. But don't get too used to lions, tigers, elephants, etc, they will likely be gone in our lifetime.

Could not agree more , Its really crazy. The world is a beautiful place with soo many beautiful souls/things. Most people think "I'm going to die anyways so what's the point", atleast do it for your kids for the future generation, they most likely won't get to experience or see the things we did which is so unfortunate. I can't change the world as one person that's obvious (I wish), but I do my best to recycle , use less water , use less electricity , use a bike to get to places that are close by, I am a vegetarian ect.. another thing this might sounds weird or won't make total sense but obviously you can't force the world to become vegetarian that would be impossible, but why have to kill exotic, jungle or rare animals for meat , for fur, for ivory , for gills ect..that are going extinct when we mass produce Chickens, Cows , Pigs ect.. not saying its any better or that one life is more valuable than the other just WHYYYY OHHH WHYYYY!!

 

Yeah, my 8 year old son just adores lions. He keeps a dozen stuffed lions on his bed, one goes with him everywhere. It absolutely breaks my heart, because lions are doomed. Not long for this world.

It's difficult sometimes to live with the constant threat, to even have beautiful children like I do. I'm just too aware. Global warming (oh, now it's climate change, so much safer), missing nukes in Russia and terrorists, North Korea with the H Bomb and submarines, deforestation, pollution, the house-of-cards economy, heck even natural things like super volcanoes, we really do live on the very edge of disaster. It all seems so safe and stable. I absolutely love my country (USA), but some of our leaders and policy makers (OMG!) Our foreign policy is based on fear and intimidation, meddling with others in blind pursuit of American economic interest and power, glorifying war. History proves over and over again that such policies ultimately fail, that you just alienate people, creating shadowy enemies bent on your destruction. How about a foreign policy based on peace, friendliness, fairness, charity, and mutual respect? Hmmmm. It might sound naive, but it would be a far more effective policy, and just a tad safer for everyone.

Most people just aren't aware, or conveniently ignore everything that makes them uncomfortable, but I just can't do that anymore. The only solution is to be personally responsible in our own affairs, and hold people accountable when they do the wrong thing. And personally to do the "right" thing, all the time, as much as possible. Stop exploiting, it's not complicated, just do what's right.

Please treat others' feelings and interests as if they were just as valid and important as your own. Because they are. That's called respect, and respect and compassion for all things is the ultimate answer for every "problem" that we face. It's that simple. I think Jesus said something similar...

Naive? Impossible? Hardly. Lecture Over. Now back to fish! Sorry if anyone is offended.

 

I Watched it today and it wasn't too bad but it was highly hypocritical.

Over half of the movie was talking about global warming yet they continued to drive around in cars, fly helicopters, fly planes from one country to the next and use motor boats. That's without getting into the whole people should be vegetarians and animals have rights but its ok to stick a hole in a cows stomach so we can measure how much methane it produces. That to me is not much different from cutting holes in dogs thoughts to measure saliva production.

Ill listen to people who practice what they preach. So when greenies stop living in houses, driving cars, shopping in supermarkets, ect and start living in hunter gatherer societies then they can start preaching.

 

I Watched it today and it wasn't too bad but it was highly hypocritical.

Over half of the movie was talking about global warming yet they continued to drive around in cars, fly helicopters, fly planes from one country to the next and use motor boats. That's without getting into the whole people should be vegetarians and animals have rights but its ok to stick a hole in a cows stomach so we can measure how much methane it produces. That to me is not much different from cutting holes in dogs thoughts to measure saliva production.

Ill listen to people who practice what they preach. So when greenies stop living in houses, driving cars, shopping in supermarkets, ect and start living in hunter gatherer societies then they can start preaching.

wow chill.

if you payed attention he did mention it himself that is hypocritical , but he said we have no choice to go to places and do things in order to get all this information to share it with the world. Obviously if he couldn't fly to China to see what their doing how in the world would he get their?

and by the way no one was saying to be vegetarian they were only saying if we would just eat slightly less meat then we did the world would be better.

none the less chill out , it's an amazing message to show the world what were doing but I guess you didn't take any of what was actually important in.

 

I have been arguing this point to everyone I know and half say it's too late the other half say they can't do anything anyways so why try. I have changed a lot of the ad habits that really are not that good for me anyway and it's helping the earth so why cantwe all just try to change something small cause if we all do it it could be world changing

 

I have been arguing this point to everyone I know and half say it's too late the other half say they can't do anything anyways so why try. I have changed a lot of the ad habits that really are not that good for me anyway and it's helping the earth so why cantwe all just try to change something small cause if we all do it it could be world changing

I do agree with that , if we all just changed a few things we do, it can diffinetly help out in a big way.

 

So it was necessary to drive around in a car to film the emmissions of other cars? Why didnt they just simply film their own car or use a stationary camera?

What about if you take you children to MacDonalds once a yr for their birthday why should you be harrased by protestors or with a great big billboard disturbing your meal claiming that you a directly contributing to global warming.

What about the family last week in the news that went fishing and was harassed by a bunch of protesters because fish have feelings and had their catch thrown back.

 

So it was necessary to drive around in a car to film the emmissions of other cars? Why didnt they just simply film their own car or use a stationary camera?

What about if you take you children to MacDonalds once a yr for their birthday why should you be harrased by protestors or with a great big billboard disturbing your meal claiming that you a directly contributing to global warming.

What about the family last week in the news that went fishing and was harassed by a bunch of protesters because fish have feelings and had their catch thrown back.

Please do not let this post get out of hand. This is supposed to be a post about a recommendation to a documentary, not a argument about it.

 

So it was necessary to drive around in a car to film the emmissions of other cars? Why didnt they just simply film their own car or use a stationary camera?

What about if you take you children to MacDonalds once a yr for their birthday why should you be harrased by protestors or with a great big billboard disturbing your meal claiming that you a directly contributing to global warming.

What about the family last week in the news that went fishing and was harassed by a bunch of protesters because fish have feelings and had their catch thrown back.

Nothing to say , end of discussion. I don't have time to debate with you when your head is already made up. I made this post for positivity not negativity.

 

Indeed. We are all hypocrites in one way or another. I drive a car. I live in a house and I purchase electricity. I eat meat. I even keep fish locked up in small cages. None of that disqualifies me in any way from making insightful observations. In any way. I've chosen to compromise certain things (mostly for selfish reasons) and accept reality for what it is. It doesn't mean I don't care. Furthermore, I don't dismiss any messages simply because of the source. All information needs to be vetted, sure, the source matters. But I need to be open-minded enough to receive all messages and process them accordingly. The simple fact is, the "greenies" have many valuable and valid points. They are largely correct in their calculations of what humans are doing as a whole. Unfortunately, "greenies'" methods sometimes are so short-sighted, so offensive, so attention-seeking that they become quite self-defeating. That's really very sad. It's not necessary to intrude on the rights of others to get your point across, and quickly polarizes the many, many people who simply cannot think beyond their own emotions. Both sides of every argument play on this repeatedly, it's getting more and more prevalent as the world continues to modernize and westernize. It's not logical in any sane sense of the word, but unfortunately it's part of the process, and it's senseless to not accept reality for what it is. So, please, think carefully, don't dismiss something simply because of it's source, or because it makes you "uncomfortable", scared or guilty, or especially because you have an "opinion" and you happen to currently disagree. Those are no reasons to ignore something at all.

 

I love this sort of documentaries. the first one I remember watching about this topic was the "Six Degrees Could Change the World" by Natgeo. I will watch this one but at this point I don't have much faith in humanity. I will do what I can to help my environment but I really don't expect much. I am happy as long as Malthus theories don't play out in my lifetime and if they do Ill peacefully see the world go down while listening to "sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny. Sounds pretty cool huh?

I agree that's kind of weird to see lots of people worrying about global warming and doing nothing about it but that is not the topic of this thread.

 

I will definitely watch it thank and can I ask you to watch the documentary chasing coral it is about coral bleaching and the effect we have had on our the most amazing ecosystem on this planet but its quite upsetting in the end

I just invited my daughter over to watch. That documentary :') ❤

 

I might have to watch it sometime.

 

Oi. Everyone has valid points. Sorta makes you feel pointless.

 

Humans are very short-sighted creatures. Even to the detriment of their offspring.... as such, in this sense, we haven't evolved much beyond other animals in the animal kingdom.
For the time we are here (100 years), we function within the paradigm of pleasure/pain. Promote, to the full extent of our capacity, our own pleasure and, on the other hand, avoid (at all cost) unnecessary pain.
We can intellectualize that we have offspring that may not have the same ability to survive ( basic resources of survival: food, water, shelter ) and thrive ( modern "necessities") as we do in our own lifetime, we even feel emotions of sadness and regret that this will be the case, but we will not alter our course because this will mean the sacrifice of our own, not survival, but modern necessities or, more aptly- pleasure.
Individuals that deflect what is blatantly in evidence around them- the "climate deniers," use all types of tricks to fool themselves and build a defense in order to justify their need to continue the fulfillment of their "in excess" pleasure.
The irony is, the world has experienced many "die offs," mass extinctions are well documented, and mother nature moves on. Other species will quickly move in to take up the empty space.

 

Humans are very short-sighted creatures. Even to the detriment of their offspring.... as such, in this sense, we haven't evolved much beyond other animals in the animal kingdom.
For the time we are here (100 years), we function within the paradigm of pleasure/pain. Promote, to the full extent of our capacity, our own pleasure and, on the other hand, avoid (at all cost) unnecessary pain.
We can intellectualize that we have offspring that may not have the same ability to survive ( basic resources of survival: food, water, shelter ) and thrive ( modern "necessities") as we do in our own lifetime, we even feel emotions of sadness and regret that this will be the case, but we will not alter our course because this will mean the sacrifice of our own, not survival, but modern necessities or, more aptly- pleasure.
Individuals that deflect what is blatantly in evidence around them- the "climate deniers," use all types of tricks to fool themselves and build a defense in order to justify their need to continue the fulfillment of their "in excess" pleasure.
The irony is, the world has experienced many "die offs," mass extinctions are well documented, and mother nature moves on. Other species will quickly move in to take up the empty space.

Couldn't agree more. That is exactly what will happen. And pretty soon. If people don't wake up. We may survive, but in much smaller numbers...

 

Couldn't agree more. That is exactly what will happen. And pretty soon. If people don't wake up. We may survive, but in much smaller numbers...

I'm like BeanFish - I have very little faith in human nature. Our altruism towards the human race is predominantly lacking (even to our own off-spring), let alone future generations that we will bring into being.
I do what I can ... recycle everything possible, drive a hybrid, try to use as little water as I can... etc...
I am neither a denier of what is obvious, nor an icon of environmental virtue- I am in the middle. Each day I make many choices and( accumulated) it all helps. Futile or not... I choose.
Edit: As proof in fact that we are more concerned with the promotion of our own pleasure than the survival of our own offspring:the election of our current president, a climate denier who has pulled the United States out of world-wide efforts to slow down the acceleration of global warming.

 

I'm like BeanFish - I have very little faith in human nature. Our altruism towards the human race is predominantly lacking (even to our own off-spring), let alone future generations that we will bring into being.
I do what I can ... recycle everything possible, drive a hybrid, try to use as little water as I can... etc...
I am neither a denier of what is obvious, nor an icon of environmental virtue- I am in the middle. Each day I make many choices and( accumulated) it all helps. Futile or not... I choose.
Edit: As proof in fact that we are more concerned with the promotion of our own pleasure than the survival of our own offspring:the election of our current president, a climate denier who has pulled the United States out of world-wide efforts to slow down the acceleration of global warming.

I would like to have faith in my species, but all of human history tells me not too.

 

I would like to have faith in my species, but all of human history tells me not too.

Agree, but that does not mean, as I am sure you realize, that it is okay not to do your part.

 

Agree, but that does not mean, as I am sure you realize, that it is okay not to do your part.

I would like the rest of diversity to stay on earth. I would also like the people who have little impact on the planet not suffering more.

 

The issue I have after my own realisation of the problem at hand is that everyone I talk to about it either shrugs it off as nothing or thinks they can't do anything to help