Sea the Truth - Fishing and the destruction of Oceans and Nature

Sea the Truth is based on numerous scientific publications that examine the problems of seas and oceans. Below follows an overview of the themes addressed in the film and a brief explanation.
Documentary made by the Political Party for Animals in Holand.

If you want to help protect the Earth, it is urgent to stop eating meat (fish and all others) or to reduce it as much as possible.



 http://www.SeaTheTruth.nl/en/ or http://www.GlobeTransformer.org

DEEP TROUBLE: WHALE MORTALITY CAUSED BY OVERFISHING
According to a report of the New Zealand news channel 3News sea mammals, among which whales, are dying of malnutrition. The makers claim that this is caused by overfishing. Watch the report here: http://www.3news.co.nz/Deep-Trouble-/tabid/371/articleID/169002/Default.aspx

FISHING POLICY AND QUOTA
Fishing policy around the world is destructive. Recommendations from scientists on quotas are ignored by policy makers, wealthy countries plunder the fishing territories of poor countries and bottom trawlers sow destruction all over the seafloor with their dragnets. In Europe, 88% of fish stocks have been overharvested, such as the blue fin tuna which sadly is threatened with extinction.

EFFECTS OF FISHING ON MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
In addition to the effect on the fish stocks, fishing also affects all other organisms in the same habitat or ecosystem. Whether the fish being harvested are predatory or prey, the balance of the ecosystem is disrupted and this can have serious consequences. The degree of disruption strongly depends on the fishing method employed.

BYCATCH
The term bycatch has come to be used to refer to fish caught unintentionally when fishermen fish for commercial fish. These kinds of fish are not interesting to sell and as a consequence they are thrown back into the ocean either death or mutilated. The average bycatch worldwide is about 40.4% of the total amount of fish being caught. This means that 3 kilos of consumed fish brings about 2 kilos of bycatch. In total, 37 billion kilos of fish per year is wasted bycatch.

FISH SUFFERING
People once thought that fish could not feel anything when they are caught. This idea was probably motivated because fish are cold blooded; this is in contrast with humans who are warm blooded. However, the ability to feel pain does not have anything to do with body temperature. From research studying the behavior of fish, as well as the study of anatomy and physiology, it turns out that fish have feelings and are in fact able to feel pain. This means that the current methods to catch and kill fish are in truth a torture for fish, moreover captured fish die of suffocation: a process that can take up to several minutes or hours.

THE PLASTIC SOUP
Between Hawaii and San Francisco floats an enormous amount of rubbish -- a plastic soup with a surface area of 8.6 million square kilometres. To compare: This is 33 times greater than the surface area of the Netherlands (41,528 km2). This plastic soup was 'discovered' by Charles Moore when he sailed through this area with his boat and found himself surrounded day in day out by plastic waste. He later returned with scientific equipment to determine the soup's total size. The plastic soup is a huge threat to a number of marine animals and mammals.

TOXINS IN FISH
We're told we should eat fish twice a week as it is packed with nutrition. These healthy nutrients are however easily obtained from other food sources, whereas fish may also contain large amounts of toxins. Mercury and dioxins 'enjoy' the status of most researched toxins in fish.

Eckhart Tolle - Volunteering and service to others

How the ego operates when we do service to others?
How can we truly give to others in a genuine way?

Eckhart Tolle - Beyond Happiness and Unhappiness there is Peace.

How to go beyond the internal and external appearances and find true peace and happiness.

Excerpt from the great book "THE POWER OF NOW" (Chapter Nine)
By Eckhart Tolle

To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of this extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, "The eternal, ever present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death." Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question and answer format to guide us. www.eckharttolle.com

Hoje é o melhor dia da sua vida | Today is the best day of your life.

2012 - A Message of Hope

A must see inspiring and profound video. A message about how we can change our inner world, and thus, the outside world, building a better life for us and every being on Earth.

AUROVILLE - An amazing Eco-village that presents solutions and the change of paradigms for a better world

Auroville is an Eco-village that is located on the South-East coast of India, about 10 km north of Pondicherry. Based on the work and the vision of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, Auroville is intended as a place for the manifestation of a real human unity in diversity. It presents themselves as a laboratory for the next step in human evolution. As a result of its 40-year-old existence, OHM has filmed a two-part documentary about this particular city.

This universal city was inaugurated in 1968, when young people from 124 countries and from all 23 States of India brought a handful of earth from their homeland in a marble urn, which they laid in the Centre of the city. This symbolized the birth of the city that is dedicated to the unity of mankind.
The current Community of Auroville is formed by more than 100 settlements of varying size, separated by several villages and Temple areas. The activities of the residents will include, among other things, organic agriculture, forestry, educational research, health care, rural development, etc. Currently there are living 2000 inhabitants, coming from 40 different countries. Auroville is planning to extend this number to at least 50,000 inhabitants.




Auroville - 2º documentary in English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrlYo75fSXU

Auroville - Documentaire en Français:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/iran/videos/6/