" ... Seaspiracy is a shocking, flawed, yet critical film.
It should set the market thinking about what sustainability really means, addressing how we skirt the real issues on climate change and environmental degridation.
... If you haven’t yet watched Seaspiracy, the Netflix shock documentary about the global fishing industry – then I suggest you do.
... If you think the global environment matters, and you aren’t watching what’s happening to the oceans, then you are looking in the wrong direction.
... Seaspiracy is a shock-doc about how the fishing industry is destroying the planet.
... We unquestioningly accept fishing is good and wholesome, enabling bogus ideas and concepts that claim to support the environment, but which are little more than environmental, and often financial rip-offs.
... forget saving the planet if we don’t save the oceans first.
... There have been a lash of accusations that interviewees have been taken out of context, their quotes misused and manipulated to make them appear foolish.
Many of the facts it glibly presents have been questioned.
It’s been made in the style of Michael Moore on crack-cocaine, spiced up with exaggerated naivety and fantastically done shocking cinematography.
... For every positive comment about the film, there is dissent.
... What matters is the film raises some very real, troubling and difficult questions for an investment community besotted with buzzword concepts like sustainability, environmental protection and social responsibility.
... The environmental damage inflicted on the oceans is a magnitude higher than everything happening on land – and we are doing nothing about it.
If we want to clear CO2 from the atmosphere – then protecting the oceans will be the way to do it.
... As a sailor, I’ve seen plastic floating in the English Channel and Irish Seas. I’ve joined beach-clean ups.
... The reality is the bulk of plastic pollution at sea is from the fishing industry. 46% of the plastic floating in the oceans is discarded fishing nets.
... Plastic straws are 0.03%, but it’s good for the middle classes to feel they are doing something.
... We really do need to think about the oceans and the effect we are having on them.
70% of the planet’s surface is Ocean.
Its role in CO2 absorption is increasingly understood to dwarf rain forests.
It’s an incredibly complex biosphere.
It relies on whale poo to fertilise plankton, which sequester carbon before sinking to the bottom, aided by the movement of marine like up and down the water column creating powerful downdrafts.
It’s a delicate organic machine we barely understand.
... Some of the filming is shocking – like the butchery of whales in Japan and The Faroes.
... 2.7 trillion fish being hoovered up from the seas every year, much of it being “by-catch” which is thrown away dead.
Bottom crawling trawlers ripping up 3.9 bln acres of sea-bed and everything living on and off it every year.
The unsustainability of “sustainable” fish farming and the waste it produces.
The destruction of coastal mangroves to factory farm shrimps and prawns.
... Then there is the money being made from sticking “dolphin friendly” or “sustainably caught” on tins of fish.
None of it means anything.
Spokesmen for the organisations that validate such claims were interviewed and said some foolish things – which are used in the film.
They were unfairly ambushed – but that’s not the point.
There is no guarantee that tin of tuna didn’t cost dozens of dolphins and hundreds of sharks their lives.
Claims that current industrial scale fishing is “sustainable” were conclusively debunked by the programme.
Sustainability is a buzzword glibly used around the globe to greenwash environmental destruction.
It’s been very easy for the markets to persuade itself its doing good because it uses terms like sustainable. ... "
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Sunday, April 11, 2021
"Greenwashing the ugly truth about Oceans"
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