It’s about habitat. Loss of habitat. People have to give it back to the lion and other African animals. They have to leave the lion alone. If Africa goes on as it is now, within 20 years there will be no lions left on the continent. Imagine Africa without the lion.
The words are those of the person in the video who loves and understands the lion and what is causing their gradual extinction.
You mention benefits. In the UK we encourage larger families through benefits. But the biggest growth in population is in the poorer less industrialised countries. They have large families to survive more easily – the kids start work young and support the older family members. In some Northern European countries there is a decline in population (excluding immigration).
I don’t see a solution. It is not in control. China’s restrictions on children is about to stop and it causes unforeseen problems (social engineering is a dirty phrase). There has to be a willingness to limit family size across all nations. We are a very far from that utopia. Humans are a disease destroying the planet so said a well respected biologist and presenter David Attenborough.
Do you have any thoughts on how to get a grip on population control, Michael?
I think China enforces limits on the number of children a couple can have. I, personally, like that. I am very much in favor of mandatory birth control and providing benefits only for 2 kids, in hopes that some women will stop spitting out baby after baby in order to get money. As far as the third world, perhaps we should be providing birth control in addition to food and medical care.
Well said Dee. If everyone did a small bit like that boy to help the planet we’d solve some of the problems. One problem we are not tackling and have no intention of tackling is human world population numbers. It is the stark and rapid increase in the number of people and their activities that eats into wild life habitat pushing out in this case the lion. Africa has one of the fastest growing human populations of all the continents as I recall.
I loved every second of this.
So many don’t care or have the forethought of what is being done to our planet. They don’t think that whatever small thing they could do would make a difference. It does.
I heard a story a while ago that touched me:
Thousands of starfish were stranded on the beach and a man was watching a very young boy throwing them back into the water one by one. He approached the boy and asked him how he thought he could, possibly, make a difference since there were so many. The young boy picked up another starfish and threw him back into the ocean and said, ” It made a difference to that one.”
Thanks DW for finding it. It made me shed a tear. So beautiful but so sad. What a mess we have made of things. How many of us realise it and how many care?
I love this video, this man, and those beautiful creatures. Thank goodness we have videos because we are blowing it completely as caretakers of our planet and we stand to lose these amazing animals.