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Bits
& Bobs Page
Only
after the last tree has been cut down |
Only
after the last green field has been turned to desert |
Only
after the last river has been poisoned |
Only
after the last fish has been caught |
Only
then will you find that money cannot be eaten
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Translation from a North American Indian book of wisdom |
These
pages are where I can let off a bit of steam, It will let
you know a little bit about what makes me tick, why we do
the job we do, and what I feel about the environment and
the frustration because of the way that Governments allow
some to abuse our wonderful world. The complete Injustice
in the way that a few are allowed to reap a massive harvest
from the sea for their own personal profit, and stuff everyone
else. Some African Nations have sold the fishing rights
to their own waters to foreign trawlers with no thought
to their own people who cannot survive without being able
to catch fish. We do not own this world, we are just custodians
of it for our short lifetimes. We should be looking after
it for our children and grandchildren. To take everything
you can, just because you can, is not good enough, the worlds
resources should benefit every one, not just the ones who
feel they deserve more than the rest, or are able to afford
to take more than the rest. We are a very greedy race, and
we are destroying our Planet at an alarming rate, it has
got to stop. I don't know how. Governments don't seem to
be able to get to grips with any of it, I don't know how
anyone can, given the way the big companies are allowed
to rape the World for profit, and the way the Worlds population
is growing, needing ever more. What I do know, is that an
answer has got to be found, soon, before its all gone. We
have seen a steady decline in the fish stocks and other
wildlife over the last 20 years or so on our little bit
of coast, but its not all gone, yet. The job that we do,
allows us to experience a little of the beauty our natural
World still contains, and to share this with some of the
people we take out on the African Queen. My attitude is
that having the money to buy an expensive fishing boat does
not give you the right to plunder what is a finite resource
in our seas, no more than having the money to buy a chainsaw
gives you the right to cut down the forests of the World.
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