Thought provoking.
But do you belong to any helpful organizations like PETA or NOW or Teamsters Local 542 or the Surfrider Foundation? I’ll admit to being perpetually intrigued but generally lack the courage of my convictions when it comes to filling out paperwork etc.
Still, jealously bubbles and FOMO too when I see activists having a fine time. Enjoying themselves etc.
On a similar note, the very famous South African surfer Grant “Twiggy” Baker proposed a provocative question on BeachGrit’s semi-famous Instagram account late last night. Derek Rielly, reporting on a second possible Great White carcass stuffed under Margaret River’s famed reef, posted a little teaser and encouraged people to visit BeachGrit’s anti-depressive website for more.
In the comments Mr. Baker wondered, “Crazy shit, only 10000 whites estimated left in the world and 7 Billion people. Who needs a culling more”.
A very interesting hypothetical but before I could come to a conclusion @jordossr asked where he got the stat to which Twiggy replied, “NatGeo said 5000 I just doubled it Incase”.
Is it true? Only 5000 Great Whites left worldwide?
As the leading shark-cum-surf journalist, I immediately got down to work and discovered that treehugger.com claims only 3500 “left in the wild” while phys.org declares there are 8000 in Australian waters alone.
Hmmm.
Still, both numbers are very much less than the 7.8 billion people on earth.
Culling people is a very slippery slope, though Shirley Jackson might have been on to something with her famous short story The Lottery.
Did you read in school?
Did it terrify?
Also, do you think Twiggy is more famous than Jordy Smith?
I would make the argument that he is.
But back to this human cull. Could shark cages filled with children (above) be a possible answer? A lottery for which kids go in and how long they stay down?
No?