Blood Dolphins

Earth Island Institute's Ric O'Barry, lead activist in the Oscar winning film, "The Cove," and his son Lincoln have one message: save the dolphins. "Blood Dolphins" follows their experience as they travel worldwide to stop dolphin slaughter. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Vanishing World. We depend on nature and animals to survive. Pollution, eating species into extinction and massacre of environment happens on global scale: sacred and very needed by life on Earth trees are being massacred by human predator. Gold mining, illegal tree cutting, illegal ranching in Amazon already destroyed a lot of sacred trees. Animals' habitat is disappearing with exponential (unbounded) rate. Films: "AMAZON with Bruce Perry", "The End of the Line (2009)". Most vicious predator (human) must learn to stop destroying its own environment. (Aside: the human is most vicious predator because it kills for sports.) While most vicious predator propagates with exponential (unbounded) rate, the nature and animals disappear with exponential rate at the hand of most vicious predator. Most vicious predator must stop unbounded (exponential) reproduction: it leaves no space for healthy environment for most vicious predator and leaves no space for animals. CONSUMPTION is not "cool" anymore. Echo-systems sustain the economies. Economies do not sustain the echo-systems. Bottom-lines and corporations only destroy the nature, environment and animals. In the past, we hoped that our technology would help us to live better lives, but as of today, our technology (better traps, binoculars, nets, better sonars to track our prey, better guns, etc) only leads us to the SIXTH EXTINCTION of all life on the planet, at the hand of the human. If you cannot farm it - do not kill it. If you are religious: "go forth (be fruitful) and multiply" was repealed by Jesus in the new testament just like many such Old Testament "orders/commandments" were repealed by him in new testament (eye for an eye, etc). Even Jesus showed to you that the truths (commandments) must be changed with changing times.

This first episode takes place in Taiji Japan, as Ric and his son bring cameras to document the brutal dolphin hunt that has become both a traditional and profitable aspect of the regional culture. Well known to the local authorities, the two men try to work as covertly as a bunch of white men with a camera crew can in rural Japan (I mean come on, who are you fooling?) The show reminds me of Whale Wars, both are about men taking extreme measures on a life's mission to save an endangered species. While not as edge-of-your-seat exciting as Whale Wars, Blood Dolphins is a great show, very moving. Before watching the first episode I would suggest you take a peek at "The Cove", a heartbreaking film about the dolphin hunt in Taiji.