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I remember saving the whales. When I was a kid in the early 90s they had several cartoons that at least had one episode where they needed to save some whales, and they did. The first that comes to mind is Widget the World Watcher.
Just like saving the ozone layer. That was another great success. Due to banning CFCs and other ozone destroying chemicals, the hole in the ozone layer has been repairing itself for around 10 years now. It'll take a while to fully close up, but it is a success.
Not every Boomer is a villain, but EVERY VILLAIN in Captain Planet was a Boomer.
I can't say I've ever seen "save the whales" used pejoratively.
In the 80's and 90's there was strong undercurrent that activism couldn't actually change anything. It was the end of history, all outcomes are and always were inevitable, voting with dollars was the only vote that really matters. Hippy punching was in it's full flower. Environmentalism was seen as self indulgent and meaningless. "Save the whales," was spit out as a sort of, 'go waste someone else's time,' dismissal.
The 4th Dilbert collection from 94' was Shave the Whales, which already struck me as a passe gesture at hippy punching at the time, though I couldn't tell if Scott Adams was engaging in hippy punching or mocking the hippy punchers.
Seeing how Scott Adams seems to have fallen off the deep end of the far right in recent years, I would have to say it's likely the former.
Scott Adams was always weird, but without twitter, people just interpreted his work in a way favorable to themselves. Twitter let the world see an unfiltered version of himself. If you go digging into his recounts of his early life, he was always a smug little boy with a superiority complex.
The Behind the Bastards episodes on him were really good. As someone who once read his comic daily I also took some reassurance from the fact that he had an open suggestion line and was essentially publishing croudsourced jokes submitted by a large portion of the tech sector for a long part of Dilbert's run.
Same position as you. I stopped reading them at some point because they were just the same jokes reframed. It was pretty shocking when he put out his "Evolution is Bullshit" article.
I definitely did, maybe think of it in context like a sneering "don't you have some whales to save?" kind of way.
Same, similar context to 'bleeding hearts' (edit: just reread the post and saw this was already mentioned)
“Gotta nuke somethin’!”
Don't let trump see this or there's going to be mandatory whaling operations at all offshore drilling locations
Glad to see the whales are doing well
The VSCO girls want to know how the turtles are doing.
Shoot the seals. The seals eat all the fish.
Shoot the people, the people eat all the fish /s
Deilig hvalbiff 😋
Is it really the biggest story in conservation? I would have guessed fixing the hole in the ozone layer would've held that spot.
Those two can't really be compared. Ozone is likely more relevant to humans on the whole (less skin cancer ).
My main issue with this study is that it's based on public sightings (no I don't know how else they would do it). During the height of whaling when they were hunted for oil they would have changed behaviors to avoid public sightings. Is it possible this rebound was not a rebound in their total numbers but just them not being terrified to go near human activity anymore since the decline of whaling? Whales live for a long time. In the 50s there could have been whales living that survived the peak of human whaling activity.
Disclaimer: I don't actually know anything.
The ozone layer hole situation is another great case study in something that was fixed by humanity being proactive.
ETA: This post I made here feels good to read but it's not really true, unfortunately. Check out seefin's post in this same thread for more info.
Why the fuck is anyone using twitter still?
At this point if you're on twitter you support Nazis, plain and simple. The line was drawn and crossed.
X axis times out at 2019. I'm guessing this was before Elon read mein kampf
Social media platform addiction is a helluva drug.
Apparently, for quite a lot of people, its hard to quit when you're so used to getting your fix, no matter how bad it fucks up your head, ruins your relationships with other peoole, no matter how much of a shitbag your dealer is.
Err... I mean...
-insert babbling infantilizing corpospeak about network effect and broad market trends-
That's why the government should step in and ban it
We saved em just in time to see them die off again in the great Anthropocene. Drill baby drill, until we can't support life in the Oceans or on the entire planet!
Hopefully, the volcanic vent bacteria will be able to reseed the planet...
The whales are doing their part. Fills me with hope to hear they’re destroying yachts.
Yeah, are they still doing that? I was preparing for the human vs. Orca war in 2025...
