Thread by @SteB777

I want to expand on what I said with regard to this.

Imagine this was happening on land, where people could see the damage.

Here is the whole climate and ecological crisis, and its cause, in a nutshell. Out of sight, out of mind.
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https://twitter.com/GreenJennyJones/status/1925087255489564714

Absolutely the only way these powerful vested interests, destroying our natural systems for profit, can get away with it, is because people can't easily see or understand what is happening. It's far away, too subtle to easily see or understand.
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As soon as public outcries, could change things, whether it was the polluted rivers in our cities, smog air pollution, clear felling of woodland, hunting species, especially predators to extinction, pressure was brought to bear, to change things.
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The problem is many of these harmful actions, can be difficult for people to see. Take anthropogenic climate change. It is caused by relatively low volumes of a clear colourless, odorless gas, and the effects are even more difficult to see.
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People, see and directly experience weather. However, seeing climate, the average of those weather patterns in time, can only be seen indirectly, or through statistical analysis of data over time. Making it easy to deny, or minimize.
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As I said in response to @GreenJennyJones, if this trawling was happening on land, fleets of tractors just tearing up, beautiful natural land, there would be an outcry. But no one can see the damage left behind, from trawling.

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https://x.com/SteB777/status/1925119748628492646

This is how this systematic destruction of the Earth's natural life support systems, continues, simply because people can't see or understand most of it. Vested interests rely on this, to carry on destroying our life support systems, for profit.
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We have mainstream (corrupt) politicians, who turn a blind eye, and corporations, industry and oligarchs, who hide their actions from the public eye, and who spend vast sums of money, fostering denial, corrupting our political system.
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Those doing this, are evil, conscienceless, amoral, ecociders, pushing our societies toward global suicide, for short term profit. Only indigenous peoples, have consistently seen right through what is happening. They are the only communities who understand this.*
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Yes, there are informed and moral climate and environmental activists, who also see it, but they are only ever in the minority in our societies, and our nasty, corrupt politicians, and vested interests put great effort into keeping them in the minority.
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* Indigenous cultures are the only peoples who have not wholly had their connection with Mother Nature, broken. Which is why the evil psychopathic people who control the modern culture, have tried to exterminate, indigenous cultures and the people themselves.
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