David Attenborough

[Wull the Gull]

Was listening to a Podcast the other day, in it an Australian Fisheries Biologist and Conservationist was taking about Attenboroughs latest offering Ocean. In the film Attenborough calls for a worldwide ban on Trawling, calling it the most destructive method of food production in the world. The promotional adverts show a net being towed along the seabed by a Trawler, the net get's hauled and then you see a large amount of "discards" getting kicked overboard.

What Attenborough doesnt tell you, but the Biologist does, is that the film was funded by an Australian open cast mining company, and that the promotional adverts were staged. The Trawler was a boat charted to drag an obsolete net a few miles off the Turkish Coast. The clip of the net being hauled was from the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka, and the fish being kicked over the side were fish bought on Boulogne fishmarket by the film makers. They had been caught in the North Atlantic and being sold for human consumption.

I used to like Attenborough, but he has clearly lost his marbles promoting a film like this and needs put out to pasture.

[kumnio]

Thought he was dead when I saw this thread.

[bonzo]

57 minutes ago, kumnio said:

Thought he was dead when I saw this thread.

Me tae 🤦‍♂️

[dan cake]

National treasure 

[Wull the Gull]

1 hour ago, dan cake said:

National treasure 

I can never understand why he is held in such high esteem. All he does is get paid to narrate other peoples words.

[ger intae them]

He draws attention to some global probs…… whether he is genuine  or even correct on this , I don’t know.

have you seen seaspiracy on Netflix? Think it might say the same.

 

 

[Wull the Gull]

11 hours ago, ger intae them said:

He draws attention to some global probs…… whether he is genuine  or even correct on this , I don’t know.

have you seen seaspiracy on Netflix? Think it might say the same.

 

 

I know from a fishing point of view he is completely off the mark, there again he gets paid by the Pew Organisation so what do you expect.

Seaspiracy was complete and utter fiction, its been debunked numerous times by proper marine scientists and conservationists. Theres a great website by an American conservationist at Washington University called Ray Hilborn. It's at sustainablefisheries-uw.org

Its worth a look if your interested in Fisheries.

[DoonTheSlope]

A bought and paid for WEF shill

[Big Ramy 1314]

I have enjoyed his documentaries over the years as I am a nature lover. Have to say though, this is a new low from him as he seemed to be quite a caring and honest person when it comes to natural preservations of our water systems.. Money talks I suppose...

[Wull the Gull]

5 hours ago, DoonTheSlope said:

A bought and paid for WEF shill

Correct. Even at 99 money still appears to his main priority

[Wull the Gull]

2 hours ago, Big Ramy 1314 said:

I have enjoyed his documentaries over the years as I am a nature lover. Have to say though, this is a new low from him as he seemed to be quite a caring and honest person when it comes to natural preservations of our water systems.. Money talks I suppose...

I was the same until a conservationist in South America told me he’s only really respected in the UK. The rest of the world sees him in a different light 

[dan cake]

1 hour ago, Wull the Gull said:

I was the same until a conservationist in South America told me he’s only really respected in the UK. The rest of the world sees him in a different light 

Not sure about that, Bjork seemed to be creaming her pants when she made the documentary with him 

[dan cake]

23 hours ago, Wull the Gull said:

I can never understand why he is held in such high esteem. All he does is get paid to narrate other peoples words.

Indeed, within about 2 minutes of his name being mentioned the phrase national treasure does always pop up tho. I’m more of a Johnny Morris man myself Attenborough can’t even do a gorilla voice 

[Big Ramy 1314]

43 minutes ago, dan cake said:

Not sure about that, Bjork seemed to be creaming her pants when she made the documentary with him 

Haw, leave Bjork out of this. I have a few of her tunes on my Spotify playlist !! Icelandic treasure !! 😂

[dan cake]

7 minutes ago, Big Ramy 1314 said:

Haw, leave Bjork out of this. I have a few of her tunes on my Spotify playlist !! Icelandic treasure !! 😂

Mad as a box frogs. Have a listen to Play Dead my favourite ditty from the bat shit crazy Nordic songstress 

[Big Ramy 1314]

14 minutes ago, dan cake said:

Mad as a box frogs. Have a listen to Play Dead my favourite ditty from the bat shit crazy Nordic songstress 

Not bad that !! 😂

[Wull the Gull]

1 hour ago, dan cake said:

Indeed, within about 2 minutes of his name being mentioned the phrase national treasure does always pop up tho. I’m more of a Johnny Morris man myself Attenborough can’t even do a gorilla voice 

Animal magic, now your talking 😄

[Wull the Gull]

1 hour ago, dan cake said:

Mad as a box frogs. Have a listen to Play Dead my favourite ditty from the bat shit crazy Nordic songstress 

Forgot how good that tune was 👌

[dan cake]

22 minutes ago, Wull the Gull said:

Forgot how good that tune was 👌

Great film anaw “Young Americans” about yank gangsters in London, not seen it in years might have a wee look for it 

[DoonTheSlope]

Attenborough is a fraud. David Bellamy was a real environmentalist. A man with principles. Stood alone in the face of adversity against the climate change cult and was straight to the point

Unlike Attenborough though he never bowed to any billionaire backers to buy him off only the courage to speak the truth. He also never made documentaries in zoos and wild life centres and mislead the viewing public into believing it was in the wild

Attenborough’s fear mongering sold a doomsday apocalypse scenario while Bellamy exposed the falsehoods. One got hero status and knighted while the other got cancelled

[Ally Bongo]

https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/the-mail-on-sunday-uses-fake-news-to-attack-sir-david-attenborough/

[Rich NATA]

20 hours ago, Big Ramy 1314 said:

Haw, leave Bjork out of this. I have a few of her tunes on my Spotify playlist !! Icelandic treasure !! 😂

20 hours ago, dan cake said:

Mad as a box frogs. Have a listen to Play Dead my favourite ditty from the bat shit crazy Nordic songstress 

Saw her support U2 at Wembley in 1993 and she was great. That was on the back of her huge debut solo album.

Then, I was in a near-empty bar in Reykjavik the last time we played Iceland and she walked in with a friend and sat 5 feet away from me.

Didn't bother her other than to wish her a nice day when she was about to leave (her coat was hanging up right next to me). It wasn't so long after she had battered that photographer in the airport and so I was a wee bit feart.

[dan cake]

1 hour ago, Rich NATA said:

Saw her support U2 at Wembley in 1993 and she was great. That was on the back of her huge debut solo album.

Then, I was in a near-empty bar in Reykjavik the last time we played Iceland and she walked in with a friend and sat 5 feet away from me.

Didn't bother her other than to wish her a nice day when she was about to leave (her coat was hanging up right next to me). It wasn't so long after she had battered that photographer in the airport and so I was a wee bit feart.

I like my women a bit bonkers, iv no idea if her voice is unique in her own/first language but it sounds incredible in English. Struggling to think of anybody that sounds like her, The Sugarcubes should have been bigger than just the indie charts as well (timing?) great band

[Wull the Gull]

5 hours ago, DoonTheSlope said:

Attenborough is a fraud. David Bellamy was a real environmentalist. A man with principles. Stood alone in the face of adversity against the climate change cult and was straight to the point

Unlike Attenborough though he never bowed to any billionaire backers to buy him off only the courage to speak the truth. He also never made documentaries in zoos and wild life centres and mislead the viewing public into believing it was in the wild

Attenborough’s fear mongering sold a doomsday apocalypse scenario while Bellamy exposed the falsehoods. One got hero status and knighted while the other got cancelled

Very well said. Thank you