odycee: (Elijah - WTF?)
odycee ([personal profile] odycee) wrote2004-03-05 10:48 pm

Save the world, make it a better place...

From the BBC news website:

...Children in a nursery were shocked when they spotted a three-headed frog hopping in their garden...
...The creature - which has six legs - has stunned BBC wildlife experts who warned it could be an early warning of environmental problems...
...All the creature's eyes and legs appear to function normally, but it is not known whether it eats using all three of its mouths...


o_0

Although the frog is comedy, what it stands for makes me worry. I do try to be environmentally friendly. I don't drive, I try and save on electricity, I recycle, I don't eat fish caught from wild stocks. But at the end of the day what difference does it make?

It frightens and saddens me that in 50 years time we'll probably have irrepairably damaged the ecosystem. The rate of loss of species is enormous. Every day more and more genetic diversity is lost that we can never get back. I never can understand how people don't care. People are willing to worry about the extinction of the flagship species like the panda and the whale, but every insect species or fish that goes extinct because of us is still as great a loss. Rah. I'm not a vegetarian, I enjoy eating meat. But for the last few years I haven't eaten cod. The stocks in the North Sea have been crashing drastically over the last decade or so and from the looks of things they're just going to be fished into oblivion. How can we be so stupid?

I'm far from what people would class as a greenpeace type person. I don't have a problem with GM, afterall, we've been doing it for millennia. I don't think all animal testing should be banned. I don't think fox hunting should be banned. Stem cell research should be encouraged. I do however think stupidity, deliberate and malicious cruelty and ignorance should be banned. Humans are so short sighted and narrow minded.

The three headed frog is still hilarious though.




The obligatory lotrips mention today goes to this viagrafic from [livejournal.com profile] anniesj. How can an NC-17 fic which is based on the comment Dom made about taking viagra with a friend and the friends girlfriend, be so wonderfully, stomach churningly angsty?

[identity profile] elvinborn.livejournal.com 2004-03-05 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Can a three headed frog like that one really be called an early sign of environmental trouble? People as a rule are generally stupid. they also like to be in control of everything around them what we don't understand, and/or can't control...we just don't respect. At least that's how I see it

as to that viagrafic...crap that was well-done!! I'm such a sucker for angst

[identity profile] odycee.livejournal.com 2004-03-06 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
crap that was well-done!! I'm such a sucker for angst

Me too. That was angst of the highest order. And very porny which is never a bad thing!

[identity profile] blackgarden.livejournal.com 2004-03-06 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
All our crazy pollutowackiness is just the next step in evolution. Today, three-headed frogs. Tomorrow, we will ride pony-sized cockroaches through the streets!

Won't be so amusing when the insects rise up and devour civilization, of course, but that's for future generations to worry about. :)

[identity profile] odycee.livejournal.com 2004-03-07 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Tomorrow, we will ride pony-sized cockroaches through the streets!

Yay! I'll have one named Gertrude and she shall be the most handsomest cockroach around. All the little girls will look at her as I ride past and pester their parents for a ponycockroach of their very own.