fishermen um who are are are are angry at international trawlers, uh illegal trawlers that are decimating the fishing industry. And so they have taken uh to piracy again to get money, basically. Um but uh there are some defense analysts
So there's a problem in how we approach food. Because we are decimating the planet to create food that's slowly killing us, which is pretty much a negative on both counts. So the way that we produce food is unsustainable.
in the North Sea would you think back to the fish and chip supper you had last week and feel appropriately guilty decimating almost the Cod stock of the North Sea Sunday Times sported only 100 adult Cod left in the North Sea
for about a decade, um is because the uh the the fishermen uh the local fishermen have been angered by foreign uh trwers that are decimating the industry and so they have taken to piracy. But there are some uh defense analysts who suspect that this is related to the wider issue of shipping in the Middle East. So Iran
If we cling to the epoch A values too long, we're going to cause natural disaster, or we're going to end up in some kind of conflagration of conflict that really stands the potential for decimating not only our species, but all the species in the world. OK, so let's look at the last part of the talk is looking at resolution and integration.
These are these oil-filled bomb trains that run up and down the river, and they're called bomb trains because they have a history of running off the rails and exploding, which is obviously decimating to the areas where they come off the rails. And you'll see them-- if you travel along the Hudson at all, you'll see them running right along the edge of the river,
But the ship went down and all the rats got ashore. And now, 150 years later in 2001, the Park Service decided to remove the rats. Why? Well, because the ground-nesting birds there had evolved in the absence of predators and the rats were decimating their numbers. Even after all this time, they were eating their eggs and killing the nestlings. All
Because then, I think for the opera world in general, it's like, god, think of all the incredible stuff that you're about to discover of the great works And especially for me, because I was 13, and that was right-- it was 1987, so AIDS was just decimating my community.
But I think the one thing that-- the point that I tried to make in my book, and I think the one thing that pretty much everybody can agree raising 10 billion land animals a year under industrial conditions, locked in cages, locked in crates, just totally decimating the land.