Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

[Montegriffo]

This is the best global warming solution I have ever heard.

I thought that too but there seem to be a lot of people who think animals are only useful as trophies to shoot and hang on walls.

[3knuckleshuffle]

It is tough not to have some skepticism of global warming when you read something like that. We are told there is a pressing problem, tons of people are going to die if we don't do something right away. OK scientists, what should we do? Invest in solar power in the hopes that we get lucky and discover some breakthrough technology, then get it into mass production, and get it connected to the grid quickly enough to change anything? Use a carbon tax to slowly reduce carbon output while paying companies to "offset" it magically somehow? Bring back mammoths from extinction so they can walk around and punch holes in the ice? This shit is rediculous. I can only hope that the scientist is just trying to do cool shit, the reporter asked about global warming because she works for the guardian and is probably required to do so st least twice in every interview, and the scientist said some bullshit because he didn't want his funding pulled.

[C-Mag]

This is the best global warming solution I have ever heard.

I thought that too but there seem to be a lot of people who think animals are only useful as trophies to shoot and hang on walls.

Do you guys hunt, fish or spend much time interacting with primal nature ?

[C-Mag]

I'm not much of a gamer, but this looks pretty damn cool

[Montegriffo]

This is the best global warming solution I have ever heard.

I thought that too but there seem to be a lot of people who think animals are only useful as trophies to shoot and hang on walls.

Do you guys hunt, fish or spend much time interacting with primal nature ?

Oh yeah, people over here fish for sport, mainly putting them back in after photographing and weighing them. Lots of people shoot game for sport and eat the spoils but mainly the upper classes.
Mostly people like to take long walks and observe nature though. Bird watching is very big and those guys have a lot of knowledge about the habitat and behaviour of the species they watch.
I like to spend a lot of time on the rivers, I canoe and am able to quietly sneak up on wildlife and observe it. For me, seeing baby otters playing was one of my best wildlife experiences to date. Here on the farm I like to watch the owls and the occasional deer which wander across the fields.
We have a real problem with crows pulling the thatching straw out of the stacks to eat the wheat but the farmer refuses to shoot them because they are such intelligent birds. He does go out every night with his dog to shoot rats though.
I would love to watch mammoths on the tundra but the last thing I would think of is "I gotta kill me one of them".

[C-Mag]

Nah, definitely need to kill me one of them.

Gonna be a little like this starting at the 2 minute mark

[Montegriffo]

I'm not going to watch that shit. I think it's really sad to think elephants are going to be extinct in the wild within the next decade or two. If I went to the African bush I'd be armed with a camera only.

[C-Mag]

I'm not going to watch that shit. I think it's really sad to think elephants are going to be extinct in the wild within the next decade or two. If I went to the African bush I'd be armed with a camera only.

That's a tribal society doing what they have always done. As much a part of nature as the animals they hunt.

[Penner]

Fun on a Bun, folks:

[3knuckleshuffle]

This is the best global warming solution I have ever heard.

I thought that too but there seem to be a lot of people who think animals are only useful as trophies to shoot and hang on walls.

Do you guys hunt, fish or spend much time interacting with primal nature ?

I guess I forgot how hard it is to portray sarcasm in text.