Waste AM

I concur joddle with your sentiments completely, and have also been following “frozen planet” since its conception, on ‘I player’,and indeed all David Attenborough wildlife documentaries,
 I suppose for most, it shatters preconceptions about our natural world, and the fight for survival of ALL creatures on our delicate but brutal global ecosystem, one of the most damming conclusions by scientist in recent years is that the North Poler icecap will be gone in just 10 years time! and species like the polar bear and others will also be gone in these regions, through man’s global warming effects to the planet, I myself has been quite aware for a number of years about this dreadful situation of our making, and the only reason my lifestyle has drastically altered in recent years, is that I’m very much aware of what the human race is doing to the planet, and in my own way have committed to reducing my own personal footprint Substantially, considering my past ignorance on these issues.
while the world around me has shifted up another gear as it were, where imminent destruction of our lovely planet seems imminent.for all life forms living upon it, but perhaps that’s the ultimate evolutionary fate, just like the dinosaurs died out through a celestial object hitting the planet, destroying 90% of the worlds ecosystem, the only difference with our endeavours is that the way we are going about it.
 it will most probably will be 100% annihilation. Just give it another two generations of more of the same, then this will be indeed our fate.
The only difference being that we had our chance to advert it, unless people aspired not to being sucked into this exponential growth, greed and consumerism at any cost!…

In your excellent posting, ‘and by the way I really like these pictures’, you mentioned the elemental feelings you perceived, over these haunting images of the natural world, I think it’s because we all have diversified so much into a world of our making, that the majority of people have lost all sense of connection to their natural primeval origins, in such a way that every now and again when one comes across the actual world that natures sculpted from the billions of years of evolutionary history, surely from time to time only the most ardent exponent of our man-made culture cannot fail to see a connection with nature’s fantastical and wonderful 4 billion year evolutionary existence, and our own connections to it,

And how man’s insignificant timeframe (400,000 years)has made his position untenable to all other natural species inhabiting alongside,

But one must remember that we ARE part of nature and one simply cannot exist on this planet without the myriad of creatures that we are most certainly part of, but have in recent years seemed to have lost sight of this fundamental truth, through a sort of synthetic existence and have distanced ourselves in a cocoon of concrete and steel, as to separate oneself from the rest of existence,

Which I feel is very sad because most people don’t have a affinity with natures creatures unless human beings can exploit in someway, to justify their very existence, but all these creatures have nowhere near the destructive capacity that our intellect has developed over these short years, all other fauna and flora in this world are all part of a evolutionary chain which all life interacts with for their very existence, it just seems that man has lost his way in this short sighted system , at the detriment of our continued existence, and all other life and resources around us.

I lived for three years in Alaska and visited the Arctic Circle while I was there. The Native tour guide and I still keep in contact 11 years later. Whether it is watching a documentary on Animal Planet, visiting, or living there—I think coming in contact with the people and environment brings it to life. These are real people, real animals with real lives who aren’t just passing across your screen soon to be forgotten. The more aware we are of others’ lives, the more we feel truly touched– which springs us into action. The first step is awareness, and that is where documentary intervenes. What we do with it from there is the question. Now that we know, what can we do about what we’ve seen? What will we do? The blog is another form of documentary, more personal, I think, and a great way of spreading awareness. Like you do Miss Joddle.

The so-called natural world is all around us all, one doesn’t need to go to some far-flung country to experience one of natures  awe inspiring wild creatures !.

In every city garden and roadside verge, there is a constant struggle for the natural life of this planet, of course on a much reduced scale,one has only to be aware of it!, 

Perhaps on a somewhat less grandiose scale, then  the polar regions of the planet, where these regions by their very nature have been largely ignored by mans intervention, but in recent years because of the effects of man-made global warming and also the proposed plunder of natural resources, (oil) even these pristine regions are being threatened, just imagine what the more productive regions of the earth in the more temperate climates would have looked like before man’s intervention become intolerable for the creatures living alongside, many millennia ‘imaginable’! But it just seems nobody cares as long as we have the latest gadgets etc? And GDP continues to spiral in an ever upward direction for the corporations,and that the worlds spiralling human population are well catered for. (7 billion at last count.) Considering the thousands of documentarys on the natural world I think that it would be rather foolish to assume that nobody knows what’s going on, I can therefore only assume nobody cares, otherwise this rather unfortunate position would not continue.