birds and bees, aka whales

Birds And The Bees Lesson, OK OK so they are not bees but whales

Do you remember that lesson about the birds and the bees?

You know the ever so important one your mother taught you, the one about life.

Just in case you’ve forgotten here is a striking example that is just washing up at your feet to help you remember.

You might wring your hands with regret and proclaim ‘it wasn’t me’ and that you don’t know what to do about it… or you can join me to save them.

As it happens life is so very important to us all, and by ‘all’ I mean all of us who share this blue planet. To those parts of this world that can consider it life is everything. We are universally saddened when life passes, especially in some unexpected way.

birds and whales

At the top the coast guard is looking over the dead Atlantic Right Whale, one of the last of their kind dying in droves in the N.E. Atlantic June 2017. Below this beach on Long Island NY is covered in dead Shearwater seabirds, starved to death as well June 2017. click to enlarge photo

Just now in the waters of New England a very real life tragedy, a real death tragedy is taking place. It is not some random dire thing that is taking its toll. It is the certain consequence of the behaviour of some of the life, us, who share this blue world with others.

In this story I speak not of the birds and bees but rather of the birds and whales. They are dying of starvation right before our eyes, not just a few but vast numbers.

The Right Whale In The Wrong Place

The Atlantic Right Whales once so abundant that they became known a century ago as the “right whale” to kill. The were huge, abundant, docile, and a single one would light the lamps of New York for countless nights. Today they number fewer than 500 and are amongst the most endangered of all the whales and wildlife of this planet. In fact today they number very many less than that 500 remnant as at least 9 have been found floating dead in the waters of New England in just the past few days.

Every dutifully politically correct bureaucrats and biocrats speak of the deaths as being tragic and in the same breath use all manner of weasel words to avoid speaking of what has clearly killed them. The whales do not bear the massive obvious wounds that come from being run down by ships with bruising bows and slicing propellers. The whales like countless being seen around the world are instead noted as being emaciated, aka they have starved to death.

dead whales on beach

Great whales are being found on beaches around the world ’emaciated’ dead from starvation. These largest of all animals feed exclusively on the tiniest of life, the plankton. Their plankton pastures are becoming deserts.

Right next to the whales on the beaches of Long Island where one would only expect to find frolicking children and bathing beauties this time of year are countless seabirds, Shearwaters, clearly emaciated and starved to death have been washing ashore.

What is it in common that both great whales weighing tonnes and seabirds weight ounces have in common? It’s their food of course, both eat the tiniest of ocean life, the plankton. So while the bureaucrats plod their cautious don’t rock the boat paths to doing their job and preserving their regular paychecks with platitudes about not knowing for certain, and of course the need for more research dollars, this horrific story of the birds and the bees, aka whales, is washing up at our collective feet.

The string of Atlantic Right Whale deaths is “catastrophic” for the species amounts to more than one per cent of the 500 North Atlantic right whales left. This year with having only five calves born seeing six deaths means we are actually going backwards with the population. The 6 whales found dead clearly represent on a fraction of the number that have died as many more almost certainly have died and not been found.

At one point in the 1930s, the population was down to only about 50 right whales, but the population has climbed back to roughly 500. The dead whales found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is another indication as this inshore ocean region is not where one would expect to find the whales this time of year. They rightly ought to be farther out to sea feeding on the summer blooms of their vast ocean pastures. But as those open ocean pastures are becoming ever more clear blue ocean deserts the whales are forced to come ashore in search of their tiny plankton food.

whales in gotham

Humpback whales this year in New York City have thrilled the citizens of Gotham. But Holy Batman this is NOT normal.

The Great Dying

When the great whales come close to shore to find food they are at great risk. They have little choice remain out on distant ocean pastures that have become lifeless deserts and starve to death, or risk the dangers of the big city.

When we look at the great dying we are seeing today with whales, seabirds, sea-lions, seals and more dead and dying of starvation on our beaches it is folly to lay the blame to the politically favourite catch-all of ‘climate change.” It is an even greater folly to imagine that when climate change is solved all will be well with the oceans. Indeed such finger-pointing at ‘climate change’ is the most dastardly money-grubbing spin mastering imaginable.

We no longer tolerate such manipulation of our media and ourselves by villainous tobacco sellers. For more than half a century, beginning with American President Eisenhower, who cried out to beware of such money-grubbing spin by the military industrial complexes we have known better than to be taken in by ‘spin masters’. Today we all now victims of the spin of a ‘climate industrial complex?” Why you might ask, Ike had a response to that we can aptly refer to, ‘follow the money.’

dead humpback whale Queens

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While a wonder to watch in our harbours there is danger there from pollution and of course ships. Humpback and other whales have been found dead washed up on the beaches of New England like so make gangster corpses dumped in the East River.

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The Root Cause Of The Whale Apocalypse

This desertification of the oceans is due to the drought of dust that used to blow in the wind to nourish and sustain ocean pasture plankton blooms, now gone due to global greening as a result of our CO2.

More grass growing means less dust blowing (click to read more).

Near shore there is an alternative source of the vital mineral micronutrients that ocean plankton blooms require to grow, that is the dirt and minerals that wash into the sea from the land and which are stirred up from the shallow lying seabed. Along the coastline such as California’s those near shore waters have become the last fringe of ocean pasture plant life in the vast Pacific. Everywhere else the ocean blooms are in cataclysmic decline.

The loss of ocean pasture plankton blooms is proceeding despite the whales best efforts to do what they do best as the sustaining shepherds and farmers of their ocean pastures. Whales and ocean pastures evolved together and the whales do more than just eat and splash for our entertainment. Their role in tending to the ocean pastures that feed them and all of marine life is well understood, if not well publicized. Here’s a fantastic short video that tells the story of caring whales and how we can learn from them how to tend to their ocean pastures.

We Can Save Them All

Ocean pastures can and therefore MUST be restored and regenerated. I have the proven means to do so with practical better, faster, low cost methods that can and will be deployed immediately. The cost of performing this vital work is not some vast sum of money as we have become accustomed to hearing about in this world of ‘climate change’.  Rather the cost to restore and sustain ocean pastures is mere millions not trillions as has become the budgets of the Climate Change world.

You can read everywhere on my blog how we have and will continue to restore the world’s ocean pastures. Join Me.