Thought-provoking documentary looking at the events surrounding the making of a video of local fishermen killing and butchering a pink dolphin along the Amazon in Brazil and using its meat to catch the in-demand piracatinga catfish which led to a ban on piracatinga fishing, including the role played by tv celebrity conservationist Richard Rasmussen and the effects on the community involved as well as more widely; there was also a parallel thread about a biologist attempting to raise awareness about the dangerously high mercury levels in another lucrative species of fish that is popular in Colombia.
It made me think about the ethics of activism for social change, and about the wider forces creating the dependencies and necessities leading to this type of resource use and what it means for those who don't have any meaningful choice about how to earn an income to subsist within the systems established by corporate and market drivers.
(w/ Jade, plus Cass was volunteering for this session)
It made me think about the ethics of activism for social change, and about the wider forces creating the dependencies and necessities leading to this type of resource use and what it means for those who don't have any meaningful choice about how to earn an income to subsist within the systems established by corporate and market drivers.
(w/ Jade, plus Cass was volunteering for this session)
