What the BBC series Dynasties misses

Twice in the new BBC series Dynasties do the animals encounter humans and in both cases they are hunting cattle.

But while Sir David Attenborough is blaming humans for the loss of habitat it is clearly not humans but cattle that is the problem.

This is made more obvious when it is considered that 1/3 of the surface area of the planet is set aside for cattle pasture! Once that is understood it puts Dynasties in context. All the animals (with the exception of the Antarctic Emperor penguins) are hemmed in and surrounded by cattle pastures.

And what is worse, and where the BBC and ever other information source should be ashamed, the loss of habitat that so threatens the world's wildlife is directly and simply due to the creation of cattle pasture. And yet no one is making this clear to all the people who so wish to help.

Once the link between loss of habitat, global warming and pollution is made with cattle the solution is suddenly very simple: Mankind must lose its dependency on cattle.

If tonight the cattle industry collapsed we would be able to return 1/4 of the planet back to wildlife immediately. The land that currently used to grow cattle fodder is alone sufficient to support the human race, releasing all the land and chopped down rain forests and cleared scrubland and savannah straight back to the wildlife from which it was taken.

It really is that simple. I composed a simple presentation to illustrate this and include the two BBC Dynasties clips where the truth of the dangers of cattle farming are rather well hidden, but clearly obvious when you know what to look for.

Cattle have a long history in the West including Cowboys in North America and Gauchos in the South. The extermination of American Indians was done to clear land for cattle. That extinction continues in the south with the rainforests being cleared for cattle. Elsewhere across the planet the same pattern is repeated. Quite who all this meat and dairy is farmed for remains a mystery to me. But some of the worlds biggest food producers like McDonalds have a beef based menu and the huge amounts of meat processed must have a source. It may indeed turn out on deeper inspection that the Beef Burger has single handed destroyed this jewel of the known universe, this planet upon which every living thing that has ever breathed has lived and which hosts the greatest miracle known to man namely that of Life itself. The original inspiration for this blog which admittedly has turned freely in all direction but which remains rooted in that awareness.

Its a peculiar thing about the BBC that while it is owned by the British People and funded by the Tax Payer with mandate to serve the British population the British people do not have rights over the content that is made for them with their own money. This is a classic example of how Capitalism corrupts and pollutes every aspect of a society. While masquerading as a public service provider, the BBC has become a privately owned and profit driven organisation for whom standards can only fall as market forces begin to dictate the content. Ironically the same market forces that stand to destroy the very life on this planet that the Natural History unit at the BBC is in a race to record before it is destroyed for ever. Anyway the result here is that the specific details of the series Dynasties upon which this blog entry are based will have to be viewed privately by anyone so interested.

I have managed to upload the full presentation here. For how long I don't know...