I can’t claim expertise on the subject, but I do believe trampling, even by marine mammals, leaves very little blood. I could find only one photo of a known trampled walrus here:

http://www.boston.com/ news/ nation/ articles/ 2007/ 12/ 15/ stampedes_kill_thousands_of_walruses/

notice any difference? I’m content to wait for the reports from the marine biologists on the scene before demanding action, but if I were absolutely forced to speculate, I’d suggest forming a posse to round up the usual Inuit poaching suspects and see if they are in possession of a hundred sets of walrus ivory.

You would have blood coming out of your head too if all your internal organs were crushed by thousands of tons of stampeding marine mammal.

I have spent this morning writing to my two senators and all the others mentioned in this article http://www.soundingsonline.com/ news/ todays-top-stories/ 240882-ethanol-bill-introduced-in-senate about the reckless addition of ethanol to gasoline, and also the attempt in the Senate to limit the EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, which would be a travesty: http://www.nytimes.com/ cwire/ 2009/ 09/ 18/ 18climatewire-gop-senator-considering-rider-to-limit-epa-a-46507.html

As Lovelock pointed out, Donne was right — to paraphrase, Man is not an island – we are a part of a fabric, and we are ripping it with a casualness that can only displayed by those ignorant of its existence and its consequences.

There’s a case to be made for a moral and ethical responsibility to protect and preserve other species. But there is also a more pragamatic case — what we do to other species, we do also to ourselves.

So that is the source of the guilt and loathing you detect. As Elizabeth Kolbert put it in the conclusion of her excellent book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe,

“It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”

the fact that we are taking 70% of the speicies down with us, is just that much more heinous.

Downstream

Downstream focuses on the controversy surrounding the development of Alberta’s oil sands. This beautifully photographed documentary is an eye-opening investigation into one of the world’s most polluting oil operations.

It includes interviews with ecologists, Canadian politicians, local residents and a very dedicated doctor, discussing the environmental, economic and health issues surrounding the oil sands development.

Here in Canada its just as bad as in the US. The MSM are all controlled by the big guys and they just hardly ever mention the connection.

And when they do its always tucked away in the science section or somewhere deep. They don’t even have environment sections like the Europeans.

The average person here is clueless on the climate change situation. I can’t even get my family and friends enthused. Its extremely frustrating.