This is one of those prime directive episodes
I’m glad they did this. More nature documentaries should be about helping animals by fixing problems that humans created.
Humans seem to have no issue meddling so much when it comes to doing things that harm the environment, but god forbid they actually meddle to do something good for once.
Do you want penguins to start a religion? Because that’s how you get penguins starting a religion
Being given worship-pebbles by a horde of penguins would be fun.
My feelings could be wrong and that’s okay, but I don’t see any issues with this. The idea that they should sit around and watch animals suffer and die in a situation like this is stupid. It would be one thing intervening to save prey from predator, but I think letting endangered species freeze to death just to showcase the circle of life is unnecessary.
Once the storm broke, the crew decided to intervene, but they did so “passively.” They didn’t lift the birds; instead, they used their tools to dig a shallow ramp into the ice, creating a path the penguins could potentially use to escape on their own.
That’s fair.
I like to think that as the penguins began jubilantly making their escape the wisest of them stopped for just a moment to give a knowing glance at the camera crew before climbing the ramp.
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If it’s a cardinal rule, why did they use it on penguins? They’re different birds! Some “nature” experts they are.
Dropping popcorn all over my exposed belly in my recliner while rolling my eyes Fucking idiots… what is this? Amateur hour?
no one respects bird law these days
Cooperation between living things is as much a part of nature as conflict. Why then does it make sense for humans to “not interfere” in nature? It doesn’t make sense. It is one thing to pick sides between a predator and prey animal, but this was not that.
It’s not the cardinal rule for humans, it’s the cardinal rule for nature documentaries.
Then I am not fit to be a nature documenter.
It is one thing to pick sides between a predator and prey animal, but this was not that.
Eh, those “circling predators” mentioned in the article just lost out on a feast. I can understand the non-intervention philosophy. Intervening while filming nature docs is probably not sustainable.
It is not sustainable, but we don’t have to treat it as a “cardinal sin” is my point.
If we’re already filling fields full of mine tailings, we can let some penguins out of a hole
Right? We are a part of nature and as per Marx very much have a hand in it, literally. And it has a hand in shaping us.
The pseudoneutral “do not intervene” is some sort of liberalism surely. Like we could separate ourselves and just observe anything without influence, we can’t.
I am sure the camera crew already impacts the behaviour of these creatures. Or the reason they are in this situation is downstream from human caused climate change somehow. Or whatever.
It just sounds like another version of “neutrality” aka not responsible to me.
In one of marx’s writings, he explains that the bourgeoise love to ascribe supernatural creative ability to human labor, setting it and its products apart from nature.
This allows them to maintain the illusion that wealth = hard-work, obscuring the fact that the bourgeoise’s monopolistic of nature is the source of its economic strength.
Humanity consumes trillions of creatures each year. I’m positive this one penguin won’t cause a butterfly effect
Idk, feels like humanity’s climate change a bit overshadows the amount of interfering with them birds compared to a few carved steps in ice at -50°C.
Capitalism-driven climate change is already intervening in penguins’ lives.
HPAI which is at least being managed worse due to capitalism is already intervening in penguins’ lives.
There should be no controversy here if a few people intervene to protect penguins given how much humans have intervened to kill them.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Good reminder to all of us that doing nothing is also doing something
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Futurama did it
