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Carl Safina takes us inside the lives and minds of animals around the world, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion, showing why the word “it” is often inappropriate as we discover “who” they really are. And yet, we are wiping out the very animals we should celebrate; we are the flood coming for Noah’s Ark. Carl leaves us with a difficult question: Do we have what it takes to let life on earth survive?
Carl Safina’s work has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won the Lannan Literary Award and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University. Safina is the inaugural endowed professor for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. His writing appears in The New York Times, National Geographic, Audubon and other periodicals, and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com. Carl Safina’s writing shows how humanity is changing the natural world and what those changes mean for wildlife and for people.
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Thank you So much for this! I just can’t understand why there are humans (scientist) who believe that animals are nothing more than air. Everything is consciousness without consciousness there is no life.
Life on Earth will continue as always it had … with or without humans.
Might be the odd one out, but still not giving up on those burgers.
The best video I’ve seen in a long time.
Carl mentions boiling animals alive and what doe's some of the audience do?
They laugh…WTF?
I have known this forever anyone who has had close interactions and relationships with animals should know this kind of stuff automatically. Unless ur overly narcissistic!
Tryna make me feel bad for eating food lol
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Absolutely brilliant, everyone should watch this!
‘We are the most extreme’-human
Remarkable.
Vegan is the future.
This video hilariously should up just below a video on preparing a rack of ribs for a traeger barbecue.
Save the plants! Eat the animals!
En expert that does not know it's called octopi? 🙂
Have a heart… Go Vegan!
most humans are the cancer of this planet.
Well, this guy needs to accept Jesus as his personal Lord, Master, and Savior of his life and repent of his sins. He, also, needs to read the book of Genesis and incorporate it into his life.
Animals do not think. Only humans do because we are the chosen ones.
Everyone in comment section humans are bad blah blah blah……have you ever seen an animal showing empathy toward other animal?
And why are so many in the audience LAUGHING? We should hang our heads in shame. . .
I think part of the reason we think we’re the best species is because we use our own standards. And our standards are bull. Our standards are based off of the assumption that we’re the best, so we attribute human characteristics to intelligence even though there’s no real reason why.
Really the term “human thoughts” and “anthropomorphism” are redundant and quite detrimental to the conversation.
This is emotional propaganda against nature. Nature is not all nice, it’s chaotic and terrifying. Why doesn’t the beer belly speaker go out into the amazon rainforest? Cuz he wouldn’t dare, cuz what common sense person would, don’t sacrifice your everyday habits for animals who have no idea what virtue is and in no situation would forfeit their habits in response. Cuz they won’t. Humans are still food to them which is what you people don’t get.
Animals have no rights, they can think but not at the same level as humans by an very large degree. Animals create grief as well, however they are not as responsible since they are bound by natural laws, and that’s it, (they have no natural rights or responsibility’s.) we should moderate in our affects on the ecosystem of course, but their not the same as humans, dogs have attacked their owners, and killed babies. They are not logical enough to realize what they do. To say killer whales have never killed any human is a lie as well. Google sea world and realize that they can be violent as well being raised in captivity. Let alone the ocean. We have no recorded death. Common sense shows that the potential lethal damage, of the characteristics that make that specific kind of mammal a “killer whale” are very indifferent to the species it feels to attack. People are starving and dying focus on them, we need to kill animals for food period. Especially for them.
Awesome Talk. What needs to change is us, there needs to be a shift in consciousness for all species to thrive including us. What we don't realise is what we do to the planet we do to ourselves. And we think humans are superior and more intelligent. I beg to question. I spent much time with Elephants especially, I feel like they are the masters and I always learn something profound when with them in the wild. Life happens, birth and death, and the freedom to thrive by living authentically is every creatures birthright. Of course animals think and feel, they just have a different language. We need to get off our pedestal and wake up to the fact that we are merely a part of nature, all creatures including us are beings sharing this planet. We are not their keepers nor rulers. Our relationship with the natural world is dysfunctional and its more urgent than ever before that we be the change so all can not only survive but thrive.
This talk has permanently changed my mind and my attitude. Thanks so much for this talk
As a sheepdog I would work for free to balance nature against Uber predators.
We see the magnificent and the pitiful when it comes to man's nature.
To protect the defenseless is the first imperative.
Again, always mystified by the thumbs down. You were on this page, You chose this page, in the moment, and you chose it over every other page on YouTube. You watched it, and then you voted thumbs down. 241 of you. What exactly were you expecting? Myself, I'm one of the 10K. Deal with it.
Humans need to be studied for their lack of empathy, compassion and mercy for all sentient Beings. I am ashamed of the barbaric, vicious cruelty of my species to all other species and the precious Earth we all share. Animals are way more evolved than humans. Animals don't destroy their own habitat or exterminate other species. Animals also don't overpopulate the earth like humans do – 7 billion plus and growing is too many humans.
I am an ethical vegan for animals and fish.
Letting apart ethic issues, the examples given by Safina are referred mainly to social vertebrates. In my opinion, his speech is very biased. What aabout a nematode (worm) that infected to us (harmful), is it no the same situation than a bunch of wolves that kill our livestock? (harmful)? We need to think more about it… 😉
Oh yeah. Very insightful. I should apply it to my dog.
14:00 –14:16 This thought is amazing☀️