Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Paul Watson - problem of the earth

Paul Watson is one of the original activist in greenpeace and founder of sea shepherd observation society for upholding international regulations on fishery and ocean protection. He is leading one of the most radical green movement on planet, he sunk whole whaling fleet of 8 ships and ended whaling in northern sea. Paul:

I think the problem is that we don't really understand what we are, in essence of we are coincided naked apes but our mind is some sort of a divine legend, and we see our self some sort of a god. We think we can walk on the planet and deciding what who will live and who will die, what we will destroy and what will prevail. The truth is we are just a bunch of primates without control.

We are now in the middle of third world war, but the enemy is not ourself, the objective is to save the planet from ourself. There is no hope for masses of humanity, anything they never had and never will. All social changes are from passion, intervention of individuals, small group of individuals. Slavery wasn't ended by any government or institution, woman got the right to vote not because of any government. Civil rights movement is the same thing, India with Mahatma Ghandi, in South Africa Andela. Again is always individuals, you need those individuals with passion and energy to get involved. I don't know any government or institution doing anything to solve this problems. All over the world I am seeing individuals and non government organizations that are passionate to protect ecosystems, species, civil rights. That where I see some optimism, that's where the change is happening.

There is no species on the planet that has survived ignoring the basic laws of ecology and we are breaking those everyday in every way that's going to be on our demise in a very short period of time in less we learn to live harmoniously with the natural world.

Future generation are going to look back on us and they gonna think of us as barbarians, the same way we think of slave trades. There are going to look at us as barbarians, the fact that we are burning all the fossil fuels in few generations, that we wiped out the oceans, we driven species to extinction.

This is the worst, we know what we are doing. The scientist know, the environmentalist know, the companies know and the general public knows and we are allowing ourselfs to do it.

We are the top predator to choose which species will survive and which not.