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Is it time for a baseline reset of environmental science?
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- Beluga whale rescued from Seine River dies in transit, authorities say
- Authors
- Pierre Bairin, Amandine Hess and Radina Gigova, CNN
I've been following the story of this beluga swimming up the French river but just learned that it was euthanized in transit. It was honestly heart breaking to hear.
But a similar suggested story really caught my attention. It was a story of a whale euthanized while being "rescued" from swimming up the Thames just last year.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/europe/uk-whale-stranded-river-thames-london/index.html
What's interesting is that there's another story of something similar in January of 2006 where a Northern Bottle Nose whale [Willy] also swam up the Thames.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames_whale
I guess what I want to ask to all of us Tildes is, in the face of climate change, should we allow all living beings to run their "chosen" path in life as an expression of natural selection even in the face of death and without interference? (And thus accept death-paths as penance for our destructive ways of existence)
*Please consider the fresh water dolphins of the Amazon. After all, what do we know of the of the reason that caused them to become freshwater dwellers?