Enough is enough...the Calgary Zoo needs

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Originally Posted by Whatigot

The zoo that used to be in stanley park was a joke.
It was pure tourist attraction and has not eheld animals for years.

The vancouver zoo, in Abbottsford, is slightly better but still nowhere near as nice of a facility as the Calgary zoo.

One way or the other, animals are pretty much going to be eventually relegated to man made habitats, the ones that can adapt to such a crappy life anyways.

1 goat hangs himself?
big deal.
We are killing our entire planet a little bit faster everyday.
I'm an animal lover, but I am also a realist.
Humanity and the animal world cannot coexist.
at least not yet and not in the forseeable future.
all of these animals are doomed to die and we are all the killers.
you drive a car?
guilty.

you buy food or consumer goods and have no idea where hey came from?
guilty.

You buy fish or coral collected from the wild?
guilty.

use tap water to fill your tank?
guilty.

wash your car in your driveway?
guilty

Use paper that isn't 100% recycled?
guilty.

Literally, the list goes on and on and on.

I'm guilty.
through inaction and complacency, my guilt sits on my shoulders like an iron scarf.

Our entire way of life is threatening every other living being on the planet, from trees to plankton.
I feel for this poor goat, but I feel for everything else that is dying too, just because it's happening slower and isn't pumped on CTV doesn't make it any less tragic.

I just can't believe that the death of one goat can incite such passionate, righteous banter when we may well be past our 5 minutes to resuscitate our planet already.
so please guys, if you wish you could've saved this goat, take a step back and consider the big picture and think about the struggling, kicking, doomed goat we all live on.

Well Said!

[EmilyB]

I hope you don't deal with the whole planet worries every day. That is quite a load to take on.

Some of you haven't been around as long, but what went before me was the 60's...

I was a teenager in the 70's, Vietnam era...we figured we would all die. A friend of mine asked me to hitchhike to the bridge to ...

Well, anyway...

Don't live your life in the negative. Do what you can do. Save a can..or whatever..don't give up, save one thing.

[Scythanith]

Well said!

Originally Posted by EmilyB

I hope you don't deal with the whole planet worries every day. That is quite a load to take on.

Don't live your life in the negative. Do what you can do. Save a can..or whatever..don't give up, save one thing.

[Whatigot]

Originally Posted by EmilyB

I hope you don't deal with the whole planet worries every day. That is quite a load to take on.

Some of you haven't been around as long, but what went before me was the 60's...

I was a teenager in the 70's, Vietnam era...we figured we would all die. A friend of mine asked me to hitchhike to the bridge to ...

Well, anyway...

Don't live your life in the negative. Do what you can do. Save a can..or whatever..don't give up, save one thing.

I would say that if any one of us did that (deal with the whole planets worries every day), we would not be reefers.
I think the point I was trying to make was more so to do with all of the concern for this goat when our whole planet could be symbolically substituted for that one goat...

You guys have global warming in the 60's or 70's?

how many animals were extinct or on the endangered species list back then?

did you have the arctic actually melting away on you?

what about the coral reefs?
were you concerned about the rising acidity of the water inhibiting coral from creating their skeletons and thus building/maintaining them?

We've got wars galore in the new millennium, I am sure you had some major events youlived through in your day, but they are all culminating now.

seems to me, you were right back then.
we ARE all going to die.

I like how you opened this post to voice your concern for this one goat and to SHUT DOWN THE CALGARY ZOO, and then suggest because I point to the bigger picture that I am living my life in the negative...

I'm more inclined to believe we have similiar views on things than anything.