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White Man Made Us Do It

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CAIRNS, Australia (Reuters) - Populations of turtle and dugong, or seacow, are dropping drastically around Australia's Great Barrier Reef because of chemical runoff from farmland and overhunting by Aborigines, officials said on Friday.

But traditions are breaking down, a black market in dugong and turtle meat has emerged and modern technology such as motorized boats has made it easier to hunt the vulnerable dugong.

"In my day, we used to row boats, and the meat wasn't wasted. Now it's too easy to get dugong and turtle with white man's technology," said Gordon Pablo, a respected elder of the Injinoo community at Bamaga, at the tip of Cape York Peninsula.

Aboriginal elders said around 60 cattle in a herd of 100 migrating dugongs were recently massacred for their breastbones.
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This is really sad . . . dugongs are essentially Pac Rim manatees . . . slow, social creatures. Hunting one of these is marginally more difficult than hunting a 18oz T-bone at the grocery store.

 
Humanity will awaken or die. We don't really have that long. We will have sealed our fate long before the end. There will come a time when things can't be reversed.
 
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Humanity will awaken or die. We don't really have that long. We will have sealed our fate long before the end. There will come a time when things can't be reversed.
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This we leave to our grand kids and their grand kids... We shall be known as the generation of ME!

 
Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
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CAIRNS, Australia (Reuters) - Populations of turtle and dugong, or seacow, are dropping drastically around Australia's Great Barrier Reef because of chemical runoff from farmland and overhunting by Aborigines, officials said on Friday.

But traditions are breaking down, a black market in dugong and turtle meat has emerged and modern technology such as motorized boats has made it easier to hunt the vulnerable dugong.

"In my day, we used to row boats, and the meat wasn't wasted. Now it's too easy to get dugong and turtle with white man's technology," said Gordon Pablo, a respected elder of the Injinoo community at Bamaga, at the tip of Cape York Peninsula.

Aboriginal elders said around 60 cattle in a herd of 100 migrating dugongs were recently massacred for their breastbones.
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This is really sad . . . dugongs are essentially Pac Rim manatees . . . slow, social creatures. Hunting one of these is marginally more difficult than hunting a 18oz T-bone at the grocery store.
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Thread title, "White man made us do this" vs. quote from story, "white man technology makes it easy". I see a difference there but I guess if you are slamming anything in sight the little details don't matter.

Go out and watch the firewords BBD. With the enviornmentalists protesting everything they may not be around that much longer.

 
Originally posted by: LunarRay
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Humanity will awaken or die. We don't really have that long. We will have sealed our fate long before the end. There will come a time when things can't be reversed.
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This we leave to our grand kids and their grand kids... We shall be known as the generation of ME!
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YOU already are old man😉 😀

Etech - I had the same thought yesterday - why not protest the wasteful nature of fireworks? Don't they harm the environment? That litter has to fall somewhere and that bang doesn't happen without something burning.

CkG
 
Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY
Originally posted by: LunarRay
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Humanity will awaken or die. We don't really have that long. We will have sealed our fate long before the end. There will come a time when things can't be reversed.
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This we leave to our grand kids and their grand kids... We shall be known as the generation of ME!
Click to expand...

YOU already are old man😉 😀

Etech - I had the same thought yesterday - why not protest the wasteful nature of fireworks? Don't they harm the environment? That litter has to fall somewhere and that bang doesn't happen without something burning.

CkG
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We celebrate the bombs bursting in air... A warrior tribe we are.. Our Freedom was born out of war.... and in war we maintain it.. It is only fitting then that we are genetically predisposed to conflict... we've learned it well... Sadly, there are too many who would wish to challenge this notion... and make us, like them, "The King's Faithful Servant"

Yup! I am Old Man.... beats the alternative... now don't it...😀
 
Thread title, "White man made us do this" vs. quote from story, "white man technology makes it easy". I see a difference there but I guess if you are slamming anything in sight the little details don't matter.

Go out and watch the firewords BBD. With the enviornmentalists protesting everything they may not be around that much longer.
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Hmm, here I was thinking I was insulting the tribal elders for blaming another's technology for the foibles of the tribe. I guess the little details don't matter . . .
This is really sad . . . dugongs are essentially Pac Rim manatees . . . slow, social creatures. Hunting one of these is marginally more difficult than hunting a 18oz T-bone at the grocery store.
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Let me try again . . . It is utterly ridiculous that indigenous people would blame the technology for their deliberate actions. On the otherhand, the runoff pollution message kind of gets lost in comparison to the idiocy of the tribe.

 
Originally posted by: LunarRay
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Humanity will awaken or die. We don't really have that long. We will have sealed our fate long before the end. There will come a time when things can't be reversed.
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This we leave to our grand kids and their grand kids... We shall be known as the generation of ME!
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Just like every generation before us and no doubt the ones that follow us.
 
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Humanity will awaken or die. We don't really have that long. We will have sealed our fate long before the end. There will come a time when things can't be reversed.
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We already are. Maybe it is you who needs to wake up and see that.
 
Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
That's not true . . . I'm pretty sure most crime in America is blamed on minorities.
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Some one is gonna jump on this with statistics and crime analysis by claimed ethnic group... and the error of the sample... and all that.. I think it is the British.. myself...
 
Well the British are to blame for India/Pakistan, the mess in Iraq, drawing up Israel, and American self-righteousness about defeating tyranny. Just kidding, despite British bungling and meddling all of those places are messed up b/c the involved parties are stupid, ignorant, selfish pricks.
 
Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
white man's p2p is corrupting white man's youths!! 3rd world country children are too be affected. must sue....
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White man's p2p keeping another white man from buying a new yacht . . . must sue.
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Well.... at least we know which one is the student and which be the artist...😉
 
Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
Well the British are to blame for India/Pakistan, the mess in Iraq, drawing up Israel, and American self-righteousness about defeating tyranny. Just kidding, despite British bungling and meddling all of those places are messed up b/c the involved parties are stupid, ignorant, selfish pricks.
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As some would say.... HEY!! Wait a minute.... I resemble that remark!!
 
Everything is whitey's fault.

I guess they have never heard the phrase accountability for one's own actions, but then again 95% of the world's problems are blamed on someone else.
 
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Humanity will awaken or die. We don't really have that long. We will have sealed our fate long before the end. There will come a time when things can't be reversed.
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We already are. Maybe it is you who needs to wake up and see that.
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What you call awake is asleep.

 
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