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Stop with the lies there is NO climate change. Anyone with half a brain can google images of any city a hundred years ago and now comparing and seeing NO rise at all in sea levels. You guys just want to take away our human rights to force us to limit our water use, banning humans in forests, and forcing us to eat corporation soylent green ie plant based meats. The green movement is hijacked and have these large youtube influencers to push propaganda lies.
Great Episode ! This focus and decade long struggle, how it evolved, but of course the rifle way is still there, all techniques used as needed- birds personality, and the only two time used big 'um. This is such a juicy chunk of some sweet stewardness in the heart of mankind.
@@meowwaffles6040 But its stupid AF - they should sue the company, close this shit and its fine bruh - i mean that stuff also happens to the ground water so wtf
A friend of mine told me this story a while ago. Apparently there was this mine that had been flooded. The area around it created a contaminated lake. Over the years the lake started to become cleaner, no one could figure out why. They finally figured out that it was the goose poop, As birds were going over the water and pooping in it, there were microbes in thier poop that thrived in the water and literally ate the contamination. Weird eh?
The microbiome is one of the most important things to helping the environment, and people often don't recognize its significance. If you'll recall the BP oil spill... well, the main way that was cleaned up was not by siphons or solvents, but by dumping tons and tons of nitrate fertilizer into the waters. This helped blossom up the microbes, which would eat and process the crude oil.
The person worked for the Environmental Protection Division of the State it happened it. It was probably about 30 plus years ago. No. I'm not making this up. She's legit. Maga Nerd. She would not make up the story. Believe it if you want. I believed her, as she wasn't trying to BS me, just part of a conversation we were having about another topic. Forgive me for not remembering all the details, just thought it was interesting to share. @@Shred_Tube
@@aaaaaaa4821 I can see the reasoning but I think with how large the lake is, it would make it impractical. Also I think the birds would have the ability to actually chill on the nets but they would, 1. rather find a way to the waters edge and 2. Probably have a high likely hood of getting caught in them.
I love how (supposedly) it's less expensive to hire all these guys for 30+ years, use all this expensive equipment to deter the birds instead of taking the permanent approach of draining/filling the pit.
They can’t fill it in because it’s flowing ground water. Plugging it would cause a pressure imbalance which could theoretically cause a sinkhole and make shit a lot worse. Not to mention the millions it would cost to drain it and it’s not like you can just dump it because it’s toxic water so you’d have to safely get rid of millions of gallons of water… That is expensive and not easy. I know retards like yourself like to get angry at things you can’t comprehend but it’s not healthy.
The job market in Montana is horrible so even if a permanent solution was cheaper I think MT government and voters would still vote to keep these jobs funded. That’s just how people are up here.
@@mixeddrinks8100 A net over a mile wide lake? Yeah....no. And all that would happen is birds would start nesting on the net, which wouldn't exactly solve the problem, and eventually the net would degrade, then you'd have even more pollution from the giant net needing replaced. You'd also need to have pillars installed all over the lake to support the net over the water, with enough room to get out there under it to do maintenance. And we're talking a mile wide. We're talking about a whole skyscraper worth of materials and construction needed. Those bullets might cost a couple of dollars a pop. Maybe they fire it 5000 times a year....over 20 years, that's still vasty cheaper than a net or anything else.
There's a couple things you don't know. First - jobs in Butts are almost impossible to find. Most ppl I know that live there have remote jobs. Second - Berkeley Pit for better and for worse has been used in areas of studies for years - thankfully it's very rare to find a lake this messed up. Thirdly - this is groundwater that's been contaminated. It would be almost impossible to drain with how much water passes through there and if it was just filled, the groundwater would disperse. That is a very good question and there are some resources out there if you are interested in further research!
Did they think about creating a second clean lake nearby in order to attract the birds away and cover up the water of the poisoned lake, for example with those swimming black balls used to cover up water reservoirs in order to minimize evaporation?
Audience: "What do you do for a living?" His answer: "I save lives!" Audience: "Are you a doctor or first responder?" His answer: "I'm a first responders for birds...." 😁
Dead birds are the best scarecrow ever (this is actually true). Birds are smart enough to realize that whatever killed a dead bird may still be lurking about.
@@Semi_Successful Hunters contribute between 1.5-2 billion dollars a year to conserving wildlife and habitat. They also volunteer their time and labor to maintain local state parks and lakes keeping them beautiful and clean for wildlife and future generations. Far and away more than any other demographic. The fact that we have an intact suite of megafauna can almost solely be attributed to recreational hunters. For the most part outdoorsman understand, and care far more about deer, birds, and fish than city dwelling hippies who don't interact with or see wildlife other than to drive through Estes Park to see elk from their car. If you actually care about wildlife you should be ecstatic about hunters and hunting. Just the facts.
@@Semi_Successful Hunting is totally fine if you put the food to use. The only hunters I despise are those who don't make use of their prey. There's nothing wrong with protecting birds from literally melting due to human activity and then hunting some for food, those are totally separate things.
"Looking to employ 5 bird scarers. Requirements : Drivers license, must be able to fly a drone, gun license and at least 20 years experience as a bird scarer."
The fact that he is a bird fanatic is amazing. When he found out about that lake, he'd suddenly found out his life mission as though it had always been leading up to it.
@@Yesindeed126 We at least they are doing something to protect the wildlife rather than just letting millions birds die lol. What happened is what happened, we can’t change the past.
@@oscarzhan1435 Maybe can't change the past but is this an example of taxpayers on the hook for an externalized cost of a mining company and if so does that mining company still exist and if so shouldn't they be funding this instead of the taxpayers? Or they get all of the profits but only some of the costs, burdening taxpayers with the cost they're not being made to pay?
@@dylancantrell6088 When you say government you really mean American taxpayers correct? The government is the most ineffective resource, if you put them in charge of all the sand in the Sahara desert they would be out of sand in 5 years.
You’ll most often find that those who are passionate about conservation also rely on such things for food. My family hasn’t bought beef in years, all deer that we’ve hunted.
he didn't create it for his own satisfaction, not sure where you're getting that from. He is paid by the state to do an amazing job that makes a huge difference in the world. Some people actually care about the world and making a difference rather than virtue signaling and pretending to be SJW's for fake causes like BLM/ANTlFA. More people should see the beauty, value and importance of animals / wildlife.
People like these deserve a lot more in life. Me on the other hand can't compare my achievement to these hard working people. Thank you for your service!
I applaud the people helping these birds out. On the other hand, I feel like the company that made the hole should have to re-fill or cover it when they closed that part of the mine. It being out there for decades is not necessary. The mine closed in the 80s. They've had 40 years to slowly re-fill it.
Would you be happy about this job? You get to shoot guns, fly drones, Drive drones, and again did I mention that you get to shoot guns. Yo how do I get into the waiting list for this job?
there are very few people who wouldn't enjoy that i feel like. Protecting birds, very low stress. If the toxic lake doesnt smell from a distance then it seems perfect
In california, they use floating bobbles to prevent evaporation in reservoirs, but they also make the surface impossible to land on, I wonder if they could do the same
It was like when I was talking to my daughter about equal opportunity policies last month. That was very eye opening for me more so than her in trying to convey the rationale and message and hearing her replied was priceless. Then I volunteered for the Mar a mission after that
@@VB-tn4tb What? I just meant that it would've not been confusing for the daughter if the dad said "shooting at birds" and it would be much less funnier
Who wouldn’t love that job. Saving animals while getting to experience nature. I respect these men for doing this type of work and wonder if that water is safer to be near for humans. If it can do that to birds I’m sure humans cannot be safe near the water either
@Custos Luminis the mine is so deep and the water touches the rocks that are making the water acidic, so you'd need to neutralize all the rocks touching that water. It would be a lot of baking soda... a lot
@@luggiswold You'd be surprised how much toxic waste litters the landscape. Unfortunately, most waste won't speedily cook wildlife dead, like an acid lake, but rather poison entire ecosystems over multiple generations filled with thousands of species, dooming them genetically.
I mean, he uses a lot of funny tech toys and a rifle, but doesn't kill any animal, instead, he saves them soooo I would be Happy too, It's like the best of both worlds 😂
Don't feel too good about it. It only applies to a small number of developed countries. Here in East Africa they couldn't care less if an environmental hazard wiped out millions of animals. Don't get me wrong. I wish everyone in the world had a heart like yours.
I'm curious but how much would it cost to fill/cover the lake? I remember seeing a video by Veritasium where a lake was covered with black circular balls to prevent evaporation, if I recall correctly. But an additional result could be that it prevents the birds from landing on the water.
Interesting thought. I looked up some information and the pH of the water there is 2.5 which means it is highly dilute sulfuric acid. The pH of CocaCola is 2.5 as well. So yeah, it isn't good for animals to hang out in it for hours but it isn't quite as dangerous as I was expecting. At that low concentration, several plastics and rubbers are compatible with sulfuric acid, so the idea could work.
I like how this video talks about how it is possible to reverse humanities past mistakes on the environment. But can we all agree that it’s hilarious how their solution for keeping birds off the lake for almost 30 years was literally just a gun.
@@OpticCommando sys the side that hands out monopolies and loves the suicide nets near the apple manufacturing plants... get a grip dude..im libertarian and i know 100 years of both sides hasnt fixed this and has proven government refuses to...regulation or not. the regulations the right hates helped create your favourite monopolies. they dont want these kinds of regulations removed...just the stupid ones that do nothing but add pointless costs....you just buy the garbage fed by your bubble that the left is "at least doing something" well....they did nothing about this for 100 years wake up......your false dichotomy is the problem
@@kazzTrismus Bravo! You have eloquently and unapologetically spoken the quality of your ineptitude and stupidity as a politically active individual. You are nothing but a candle: better burnt out.
Great work and a real dream job to me. Shooting guns, cannons, using drones, and other grown-up toys. While also saving birds and wildlife. I'm jealous.
@@pizza6357 Potentially high pay, no challenging of morals in day-to-day, being outdoors all day, constantly doing a good thing, shooting guns and using other big kid gadgets... nah man. Definitely would not get bored and would even resist retirement to do this as long as possible.
Bird: "i heard about this one place where they got fireworks show, it's in our migration rute so we could just stop by." Other birds: "that's sounds fun, what's the catch" The bird: "eh, a quick bath in acidic lake and probably a hit by missed gunshots"
"Has anyone pointed out the irony that you protect birds and then go hunting". As an avid outdoors man there is no irony here. Wildlife conservation and protection is spearheaded by those who use the resource the most. I love fishing and do everything in my power to protect our lakes. Without a healthy fish population I would lose sustenance, a passion and most importantly a beautiful array of water creatures beyond those predatory fish we catch. Same can be said about land animals and birds! Wild Turkey re-population in Ontario was spearheaded by hunters. That has been a huge conservation effort success.
Dump thousands of floating balls in this pit, so that the entire water surface is completely covered and there is no water exposed!! That way the aquatic birds won't even see the water and won't be able to get to the water ither.
legit feel the same as an avid fisherman, nothing pisses me off more then people tainting the nearby lakes and rivers by killing every non "food" fish they catch and not removing their old fishing lines and plastic garbage from the surrounding area, too many a time have i had to remove shitloads of braided fishing lines left behind by careless "fishers" that would otherwise surely have caused devastation and/ or death to the wildlife in the area. This all seems ironic since i like fishing myself and in doing so hurt the fish caugt on my line but atleast i do my part in trying to keep the fish and nearby seafowl population somewhat healthy for future generations. As you stated, hunters, fishermen and outdoorsmen are usually the people who are the most educated in and try their best to keep the ecosystem at a healthy rate so that other generations can experience and be part of it in the future, as ironic as it may seem to some.
@@jsl2411 Yeah! Seeing people happy makes me happy. Seeing people miserable makes me feel bad. Mark seems legitimately happy about what he does and seems happy to share it with others. That's pretty cool in my book.
this is why these companies should be held accountable for this type of behavior. They just decied "okay lets shut the pumps off" considering all of this.
The problem is that women vote. So you can't just hook an atomic reactor to the pumps and keep them running forever. In any normal world, they'd do so, but we have expensive energy. Because women vote and are irrational about nuclear power.
Maybe try putting a lid on that pond. Spray foam up the banks and across the water 4 or 5 feet thick. The entire thing! Companies will be able to tell you the best type of foam to handle the weather forever but the foam hardens strong enough to walk across. Maybe 6 or 7 feet but put a lid on it. Spraying 10 feet up the banks holds it in place.
@@keithrichardscorpse1230 it's the cycle of nature, those who love nature may want to participate in it in a more personal manner. Murder is a part of life, its natural. Unlike the mass murder of cattle in slaughterhouse, I hope you understand
@@keithrichardscorpse1230 that's such a subjective statement, don't say "true nature and wildlife lovers are vegans", you are attempting to apply your own wishes and own self beliefs onto groups of people, please shut up, thank you and have an amazing day.
@@keithrichardscorpse1230 Hunters are not poachers or "murderers". There is an important difference between a hunter and a poacher. All hunters (not poachers) have a deep respect for the wildlife that they claim and they pay it back in the form of conservation. Each & every responsible hunter pays into conservation each & every year in the form of conservation stamps and the liscense (or "tag") fee$. That money then goes into monitoring & conserving wildlife on the entire continent and not just from hunting but also from natural disasters. Read on, i got more... * This then gives jobs to those working in conservation and hunters are the only reason they get paid for having those jobs. * The hunt itself (claim not "murder") also benefits the genetics, disease, and balances life as it should be. * Tags are only issued at a rate that balances the population, not just kills it into some kind of fantasy extinction.
I wouldn’t even need to set an alarm for this, like most soul sucking jobs. This looks fun and I’d probably be in a good mood waking up 99% of the time . It’s outdoors and it’s helping animals. You get to play with expensive toys and shoot guns. This guy has the life.
Part of me wishes there were an easier way to keep them from ever landing, yet another part doesn’t want a thing to change because this guys clearly loves what he does and that makes me so happy.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 there probably is but they mentioned an active cleanup is underway so there might not be an easier way to do this that allows access for the cleanup
just to clarify- i have lived in Butte for about 25 years. not long after we moved here, a flock of geese landed in the pit and they all died. at first they claimed that the geese had died from 'something else', but eventually determined it was the pit water. it was then that they got serious about keeping birds out of the pit. I do hear the siren often, since I work pretty much just below 'lake berkeley'
Something that's glossed over here towards the end of the interview is the supposed irony of being a waterfowl hunter while loving and conserving wildlife. You can do both, and most do. You protect the resources the animals need to survive while not overhunting yourself. It's incredibly common and seems to be overlooked often by those who don't care for hunting.
Few people care more about wildlife conservation than hunters. Hunters spend more time in nature actually interacting with it than the average person. An average person, especially an average city dweller, will just parrot whatever conservation talking points sound nice enough to make them look good, while not having any real understanding of what they're saying. A hunter who spends a lot of time in nature and actively participates in the circle of life has a lot more reason to directly care about the biosphere of their hunting ground than an average person has to care about stuff that happens in some forest that they've never visited.
@@Thalanox if there were no hunters population would be out of control for all of the animals, hunters are necessary and useful but often hated by people who have only ever followed a trail
@@mryork_ In Michigan deer hunters are hugely important. Humans have displaced all the apex predators that kept the deer populations in check. Without those controls the deer population explodes, with many very bad consequences. Human hunters have to fill the role that the natural predators humans have pushed out used to perform.
a tarp that is made of plastic, is notorious for taking damage from literally everything, which means a windstorm blowing sticks and debris will shred it? that just seems even worse.
hearing about miners choking up talking about seeing thousands of dead birds in the pit is a good reminder that on an individual level none of us _want_ to create pollution; it's a problem that we create as an aftereffect, because it's easier or cheaper to do things the wrong way... or that sometimes there is no 'right' way, or sometimes even because something no one expected happened. It's a problem that we all create together, through our demands for goods, and it is something we all need to find solutions for together.
And human beings are still a fledgling/adolescent techno race with no parental model. It takes hundreds of years to get your sh|t straight. The important thing is that we clearly know that natural harm is bad and our trajectory is towards improvement. For all we know, we may be the best behaved species in the galaxy! lol
That solely lays on the back of the rich owners that know it destroys everything but still do it to make a few extra dollars they don't have to live there they buy mansions in New York while the workers are left fucked because they are locals actually affected by the greed of the rich
True, but human beings (as individuals) create only a fraction of pollution/waste. It is large corporations that create the vast majority of waste and pollution
You know what's the best solution to solve every environmental crisis happening but no one is talking about? Stop breeding. Seriously, wheb there are less people, there's a lower overall carbon footprint and thus no necessity to provide them with their human needs which in turns, damage the environment (yes, Thanos was right)
I once dated a guy who grew up on a ranch in Montana. His job in the summers was riding horseback and shooting prairie dogs. (They kill cattle.) He was recruited for sniper school...
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Stop with the lies there is NO climate change. Anyone with half a brain can google images of any city a hundred years ago and now comparing and seeing NO rise at all in sea levels. You guys just want to take away our human rights to force us to limit our water use, banning humans in forests, and forcing us to eat corporation soylent green ie plant based meats. The green movement is hijacked and have these large youtube influencers to push propaganda lies.
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Great Episode ! This focus and decade long struggle, how it evolved, but of course the rifle way is still there, all techniques used as needed- birds personality, and the only two time used big 'um. This is such a juicy chunk of some sweet stewardness in the heart of mankind.
Cover the lake with floating solarcells. bit by bit. Ask for money from people like Gates etc.
This is the most American way of preserving wildlife I’ve ever seen
Hey it works
we should raise a fund raiser, get him a barret or a serbu bfg-50... ohhhh OR an m32, imagine the waves!
@@meowwaffles6040 But its stupid AF - they should sue the company, close this shit and its fine bruh - i mean that stuff also happens to the ground water so wtf
Instead of making the mining company to clean the mess they created, someone spend millions to scare birds. Weird.
@@georgisimeonov243 well it’s a bit difficult to clean up something this large.
When he's not at work, he misses the birds. When he's at work, he misses the birds
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Lol
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Baaahahaha, I see what you did there 🤣🤣
You are pretty smart fella aren't you
A friend of mine told me this story a while ago. Apparently there was this mine that had been flooded. The area around it created a contaminated lake. Over the years the lake started to become cleaner, no one could figure out why. They finally figured out that it was the goose poop, As birds were going over the water and pooping in it, there were microbes in thier poop that thrived in the water and literally ate the contamination. Weird eh?
was the "person" who told you this story a goose, perhaps? Sounds like classic goose trickery
Dang now we need goose poop water instead of this filtered crap
The microbiome is one of the most important things to helping the environment, and people often don't recognize its significance. If you'll recall the BP oil spill... well, the main way that was cleaned up was not by siphons or solvents, but by dumping tons and tons of nitrate fertilizer into the waters. This helped blossom up the microbes, which would eat and process the crude oil.
The person worked for the Environmental Protection Division of the State it happened it. It was probably about 30 plus years ago. No. I'm not making this up. She's legit. Maga Nerd. She would not make up the story. Believe it if you want. I believed her, as she wasn't trying to BS me, just part of a conversation we were having about another topic. Forgive me for not remembering all the details, just thought it was interesting to share. @@Shred_Tube
@@Shred_Tube silly goose moment
This man really chased pigeons off a sidewalk as a kid and said "this is what I wanna do when I grow up"
Wonder why these idiots dont just put a layer of nets over the lake
@@aaaaaaa4821 I can see the reasoning but I think with how large the lake is, it would make it impractical. Also I think the birds would have the ability to actually chill on the nets but they would, 1. rather find a way to the waters edge and 2. Probably have a high likely hood of getting caught in them.
LOL!
Aaaa aaa Exactly!
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This sounds like a perfect job for a Stormtrooper. They wouldn’t hit the birds even if they were aiming for them.
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This guy again
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I love how (supposedly) it's less expensive to hire all these guys for 30+ years, use all this expensive equipment to deter the birds instead of taking the permanent approach of draining/filling the pit.
you would think it would be cheaper to put a whole net over the area?
They can’t fill it in because it’s flowing ground water. Plugging it would cause a pressure imbalance which could theoretically cause a sinkhole and make shit a lot worse.
Not to mention the millions it would cost to drain it and it’s not like you can just dump it because it’s toxic water so you’d have to safely get rid of millions of gallons of water…
That is expensive and not easy.
I know retards like yourself like to get angry at things you can’t comprehend but it’s not healthy.
The job market in Montana is horrible so even if a permanent solution was cheaper I think MT government and voters would still vote to keep these jobs funded. That’s just how people are up here.
@@mixeddrinks8100 A net over a mile wide lake? Yeah....no. And all that would happen is birds would start nesting on the net, which wouldn't exactly solve the problem, and eventually the net would degrade, then you'd have even more pollution from the giant net needing replaced. You'd also need to have pillars installed all over the lake to support the net over the water, with enough room to get out there under it to do maintenance. And we're talking a mile wide. We're talking about a whole skyscraper worth of materials and construction needed. Those bullets might cost a couple of dollars a pop. Maybe they fire it 5000 times a year....over 20 years, that's still vasty cheaper than a net or anything else.
There's a couple things you don't know. First - jobs in Butts are almost impossible to find. Most ppl I know that live there have remote jobs. Second - Berkeley Pit for better and for worse has been used in areas of studies for years - thankfully it's very rare to find a lake this messed up. Thirdly - this is groundwater that's been contaminated. It would be almost impossible to drain with how much water passes through there and if it was just filled, the groundwater would disperse.
That is a very good question and there are some resources out there if you are interested in further research!
Did they think about creating a second clean lake nearby in order to attract the birds away and cover up the water of the poisoned lake, for example with those swimming black balls used to cover up water reservoirs in order to minimize evaporation?
"So, what do you do for a living?"
"Oh, I harass birds so they don't die."
LOL
*Suffering from success*
🎵 living the dream 🤣🤣
Professional scare crow
Audience: "What do you do for a living?"
His answer: "I save lives!"
Audience: "Are you a doctor or first responder?"
His answer: "I'm a first responders for birds...." 😁
This guy is the best scarecrow ever.
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Dead birds are the best scarecrow ever (this is actually true). Birds are smart enough to realize that whatever killed a dead bird may still be lurking about.
Underrated comment 😂
Excellent
more like a scare-duck....sorry.
Finally, a worthy job for Stormtroopers.
That man is living his best life. Gets paid to do what he loves and enjoys!
Imagine him going hunting with his buddies. Everytime he misses they pat him on the back and say "that's ok bud, it's how you were trained"
Imagine, your job is to save and protect the birds. And in your downtime, you hunt and kill birds....
thats funny
@@Semi_Successful Well you gotta do what you gotta do for money. Doesn't have to mean he really cares about birds.
@@Semi_Successful Hunters contribute between 1.5-2 billion dollars a year to conserving wildlife and habitat. They also volunteer their time and labor to maintain local state parks and lakes keeping them beautiful and clean for wildlife and future generations. Far and away more than any other demographic. The fact that we have an intact suite of megafauna can almost solely be attributed to recreational hunters. For the most part outdoorsman understand, and care far more about deer, birds, and fish than city dwelling hippies who don't interact with or see wildlife other than to drive through Estes Park to see elk from their car. If you actually care about wildlife you should be ecstatic about hunters and hunting. Just the facts.
@@Semi_Successful Hunting is totally fine if you put the food to use. The only hunters I despise are those who don't make use of their prey. There's nothing wrong with protecting birds from literally melting due to human activity and then hunting some for food, those are totally separate things.
That is a really specialised job, can't imagine there are too many jobs where you save birds by shooting at them.
Bro fr, I wish I could have a job like that 😔
"Looking to employ 5 bird scarers. Requirements : Drivers license, must be able to fly a drone, gun license and at least 20 years experience as a bird scarer."
I wonder why they don't just put those shade ball things on top of these?
@@subashchandra9557 would sulphuric acid not melt them?
this the kind of job the upper management gives to their buddies as a cushy givt gig. its remote enough, no will bother to check up on you.
Thanks Mark! Appreciate you protecting the wildlife and ecosystem from our mistakes as a species. Wish there were more people like you in our world.
*company's mistakes, don't rope the proletariat into this.
One species, the earth species
god has a special spot for people like you, Im sure of it .
you are protecting millions of birds and other wildlife.
great job
The fact that he is a bird fanatic is amazing. When he found out about that lake, he'd suddenly found out his life mission as though it had always been leading up to it.
I have a plan we take the polluted water then we dump it at the corrupt companies houses
@@whatamistudio2557 LOL
Life mission? Come on dude.
@@delav83 I mean the guy did say he eats dreams sleeps poops duck. So I’d say this statement is accurate. Come on dude
Hunters are often the biggest conservationists. It sounds backwards, but they have a vested interest in wildlife populations surviving.
It's very heartening to see the extent of the efforts they are going to to protect wildlife. +1 for humans in Montana!
@@Yesindeed126 We at least they are doing something to protect the wildlife rather than just letting millions birds die lol. What happened is what happened, we can’t change the past.
+1 what?
@@Yesindeed126 go back to Hogwarts.. positive and educational message? Leave it to a English person to get his panties in a wad xD
@@oscarzhan1435 Maybe can't change the past but is this an example of taxpayers on the hook for an externalized cost of a mining company and if so does that mining company still exist and if so shouldn't they be funding this instead of the taxpayers? Or they get all of the profits but only some of the costs, burdening taxpayers with the cost they're not being made to pay?
@@Yesindeed126 I cant take people with crooked yellow teeth seriously 😂
Shouting into the radio: "we need more ammo! There's too many of them! Hurry!"
It's not impossible to erase, it's just expensive. The companies that mined the area should be charged with cleaning it up too.
What if those companies don’t exist anymore
@@IAmVeV
Socializing the losses I see
@@isaiah4478 , go after the execs.
Id rather the government pay to fix the environment than pretty much anything they do now
@@dylancantrell6088 When you say government you really mean American taxpayers correct? The government is the most ineffective resource, if you put them in charge of all the sand in the Sahara desert they would be out of sand in 5 years.
World: "A perfect job doesn't exist."
This guy: Shooting guns all day and saving birds' life
I was thinking the same thing. Seems like a great job to do. Also fun!
Birds aren't real
@@adankmeme651 neither is your Johnson Sally
@@dirsta7 finally someone smart.. birds are government spy drones
But pointless nevertheless, the issue must be resolved at it's roots.
You can't convince me they don't start aiming at the birds after long hours 😂
You’ll most often find that those who are passionate about conservation also rely on such things for food. My family hasn’t bought beef in years, all deer that we’ve hunted.
I love how he really loves this job, like he’s the one who created it for his own satisfaction
@Capsized Cloud Don't we all.
It seems so fun
he didn't create it for his own satisfaction, not sure where you're getting that from. He is paid by the state to do an amazing job that makes a huge difference in the world. Some people actually care about the world and making a difference rather than virtue signaling and pretending to be SJW's for fake causes like BLM/ANTlFA. More people should see the beauty, value and importance of animals / wildlife.
@@jaygio some people might think you're a little pompous with this comment.
@@JohnThrax555 strange response but it doesn't make my comment any less valid.
"I'm Mark Mariano, Waterfowl Protection Specialist. We invented that title."
The delivery is just hilarious
I love it haha
But: it fits!
He has a great sense of humor! I loved it!
He has a great sense of humor! I loved it!
His previous role was a Certified Petrol Transfer Technician (aka Gas Station Attendant)
People like these deserve a lot more in life. Me on the other hand can't compare my achievement to these hard working people. Thank you for your service!
it's a guy with a rifle who shoots at birds. don't undersell yourself
yeah its not exactly a difficult job but an important job nonetheless @@grootsyt
@@lgdslr-2773 That's true
These dudes got some funding (granted for a good, wholesome reason) and now they’re just like “oh what neat toys can we use with the birdies today?”
All jokes aside, he is such a nice guy with a great heart to protect the birds with such an effort
You don't need a great heart when you are getting paid money to do something easy, fun, and exciting. He has a dream job!
AW HOW NICE TO DESTROY TO PRETEND TO SAVE :D JESUS DO THE SAME :D
@@razgvozd you realize those birds would die if they weren’t scared off
@@Jklopoppcorn sshhhhh dont speak logic
@@temesgen4321 oh god i feel bad for you to have such a deformed view about your world around you :(
this man loves his job so much it’s very heart-warming
I would too, gettin to chill outside and shoot at water all day and getting paid for it
@@Calilou52 yeah I mean you get FREE bullets to shoot all day like what more can an American ask for really?
True
It's a shit show, if you thought about it for just one second...
@@ryanbailey7307 free beer
I keep thinking about how much it sucks that we have toxic lakes just sitting there.
I applaud the people helping these birds out.
On the other hand, I feel like the company that made the hole should have to re-fill or cover it when they closed that part of the mine. It being out there for decades is not necessary. The mine closed in the 80s. They've had 40 years to slowly re-fill it.
Mark's excitement for his job is very infectious. I'm happy that he's so psyched about it
I mean his job is ez
His job is fun
Would you be happy about this job? You get to shoot guns, fly drones, Drive drones, and again did I mention that you get to shoot guns. Yo how do I get into the waiting list for this job?
He's the one guy here in Montana shooting at animals and not trying to kill them.
AHOOO SHIT HES INFECTED
He's stopping them from mutating in the comic book toxic waste. He's a hero.
**insert duck doing the joker laugh**
the comic book toxic waste
Swamp thing!
Umm no you must have missed the first few mins....they die within hours, its acidic not radioactive..... no mutating would ever take place.
@@Ragnar676 Do you know what is a joke
this has to be the most chill job ever, dude just shoots at a lake and flys drones around all day, thats like a rednecks dream weekend
Yes, simply badassery
there are very few people who wouldn't enjoy that i feel like. Protecting birds, very low stress. If the toxic lake doesnt smell from a distance then it seems perfect
Even a dream weekend would get old if you did it every day.
Pretty sure technology will take over the job in near future.
This is our taxpayer dollars at work. Saving birds with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
This guy has the best job there is on the planet and there is no debating that.
Respect! Nice work you doing there
“We invented that title, but it fits” … literally every government official title
Lol I was thinking the same thing
Yeah I work in government and I can confirm most governmental titles are complete bs.
Ms. Sumners, you do realize a private company created the environmental disaster.
@@thevolsteadvolstead5942 you do realise because of that privet company you can type this message
Literally every title ever. Its only after everyone uses it that it becomes official.
The fact that companies can make a fortune, then leave a toxic disaster behind for the public to reconcile is corrupt.
THIS IS AMERICA!
(And the world in general)
Corporate greed
You people are stuck in 1960. This doesn’t happen anymore. Not legally anyway. It’s still common practice overseas but AMERICA BAD
Ya think
This started 60 years ago. They have to have plans now to reclaim the land.
@@THESLlCK now they zone it residential put some dirt on it and build homes. This is still going on everywhere.
Great people still exist. Wish I had this guys job
This is incredible!
Now this is a man who truly loves what he does.
When you do what you truly Love , you never work a day in your life That's how I've heard it said
Looks like a pretty awesome job
Ye
"So what you do for a living?"
"I shoot at birds"
"So you a hunter?"
"No..."
"I eat, sleep, and ..... poop ducks"
"Wait, so you're some kind of farmer?"
Might do that too elsewhere
@@brendanwood1540 "if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and flaps like a duck... then it's a duck"
Exact opposite actually, I shoot to make sure they live. Great job I can only imagine how a day of work is. Can't be boring can it?
Hunting is horrible!
In california, they use floating bobbles to prevent evaporation in reservoirs, but they also make the surface impossible to land on, I wonder if they could do the same
protect this man at all cost
Everyone is replaceable. No need to protect him.
Pretty cool to see a guy so passionate about a job that most people didn’t even know existed
I’d be more passionate if I knew it was an option before today
@Sinned Gnillubnot Blah blah blah
@Sinned Gnillubnot 😂
@Sinned Gnillubnot ironically the only time you aren’t funny is when you’re really trying hard to be lmao
I wonder who funds it
"Dad, what is your job?"
"Shooting birds."
"So you're a hunter?"
"No. I save them."
Don’t you mean shooting AT birds? Just shooting birds implies them getting shot/hit
@@isaiah4478 No that would not be confusing
It was like when I was talking to my daughter about equal opportunity policies last month. That was very eye opening for me more so than her in trying to convey the rationale and message and hearing her replied was priceless. Then I volunteered for the Mar a mission after that
@@porc1429 no it wouldn’t, that’s literally what the whole video is about
@@VB-tn4tb What? I just meant that it would've not been confusing for the daughter if the dad said "shooting at birds" and it would be much less funnier
Sensationalist title as usual... He does not shoot at them he just scares them away.
I like how segments of nets are completely out of the question but spending millions on drones & ammo isn’t
this was my thought too
Mark is one of those rare cases of people who love what they do. Love his energy!
I think getting paid to shoot at the water isn't something to be sad about
Flying drones, chasing ducks with RC boats, and firing guns at a lake? - I'd pay good money for a good days worth of his work.
Well to be fair, his job does look like fun lmao
Who wouldn’t love that job. Saving animals while getting to experience nature. I respect these men for doing this type of work and wonder if that water is safer to be near for humans. If it can do that to birds I’m sure humans cannot be safe near the water either
@Custos Luminis the mine is so deep and the water touches the rocks that are making the water acidic, so you'd need to neutralize all the rocks touching that water. It would be a lot of baking soda... a lot
This guy is the embodiment of the saying "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life."
Sadly - or luckily - there aren't enough toxic lakes for all of us to do what we love.
@@luggiswold you’re right. Let’s make a new one!
fuckn eh !
@@luggiswold You'd be surprised how much toxic waste litters the landscape. Unfortunately, most waste won't speedily cook wildlife dead, like an acid lake, but rather poison entire ecosystems over multiple generations filled with thousands of species, dooming them genetically.
The american embodiment
I'm surprised politicians aren't trying to sell the water to Flynt Michigan as mineral water.
Good work fellas ❤❤ keep it up ✌️✌️
I really like this guy seems chill and is happy to do his job.
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I mean, he uses a lot of funny tech toys and a rifle, but doesn't kill any animal, instead, he saves them soooo
I would be Happy too, It's like the best of both worlds 😂
He gets to annoy stuff for a job, what's not to love. That's a dream job for me.
@@essex3777 AHAHAHAHAHAHA true that 😂😂
Smoking all that weed
Glad that there are people who actually care and spend their days caring for animals
I'm sure he's getting a check
Don't feel too good about it. It only applies to a small number of developed countries. Here in East Africa they couldn't care less if an environmental hazard wiped out millions of animals. Don't get me wrong. I wish everyone in the world had a heart like yours.
And if you consume meat oh the irony!
@@MrTmenzo looks like the vegan teacher got some students as brainless as her
Because of other humans that created the issue to begin with…
Please keep doing what you do!
I'm curious but how much would it cost to fill/cover the lake? I remember seeing a video by Veritasium where a lake was covered with black circular balls to prevent evaporation, if I recall correctly. But an additional result could be that it prevents the birds from landing on the water.
My thoughts exactly!
Interesting thought. I looked up some information and the pH of the water there is 2.5 which means it is highly dilute sulfuric acid. The pH of CocaCola is 2.5 as well. So yeah, it isn't good for animals to hang out in it for hours but it isn't quite as dangerous as I was expecting. At that low concentration, several plastics and rubbers are compatible with sulfuric acid, so the idea could work.
Yeah, I was wondering I they’re didn’t covered it with a huge net or something.
It’s likely cheaper to just keep things as they’re.
I like how this video talks about how it is possible to reverse humanities past mistakes on the environment.
But can we all agree that it’s hilarious how their solution for keeping birds off the lake for almost 30 years was literally just a gun.
we could send you but its cheaper with bullets
Americans, am I right
Stupid idea but it looks like a great job.
Ever heard of bird bombs? They use them to clear birds out of jet engines.
They flashbang the birds.
My sentiments exactly
I'm glad they have these guys on the job, but it seems like the mine should be held more liable for this pollution.
¨That sounds like communism¨ - every american that votes for deregulation.
They are being held liable who do you think is paying for this
@@OpticCommando sys the side that hands out monopolies and loves the suicide nets near the apple manufacturing plants...
get a grip dude..im libertarian and i know 100 years of both sides hasnt fixed this and has proven government refuses to...regulation or not.
the regulations the right hates helped create your favourite monopolies.
they dont want these kinds of regulations removed...just the stupid ones that do nothing but add pointless costs....you just buy the garbage fed by your bubble that the left is "at least doing something"
well....they did nothing about this for 100 years
wake up......your false dichotomy is the problem
I was there about 10 years ago and they actually charged people to see it like it was a tourist attraction and not a mining disaster.
@@kazzTrismus Bravo! You have eloquently and unapologetically spoken the quality of your ineptitude and stupidity as a politically active individual.
You are nothing but a candle: better burnt out.
1. Company makes profit ruining the planet.
2. Company leaves.
3. Community ends up dealing with their mess.
birds have collective mind. the first ones die but the next won't go there
“My mom bought me this one and I told her it was stupid... and now I love it” We must protect this man at all costs!! 💕
Sadly the reality is he will probably die of some form of cancer because of all of his time spent saving the birds from corporate evil.
Sniping is a good job mate
@suspiciously slow scout
I'm pretty sure I've fought you in a tf2 match once
Fake news
Flying drones, playing with lasers, shooting craps. Holy shit this is the dream job!!
@@mrleon4922 wtf is nets going to do Mr LEON
@@mrleon4922 This place is too big for nets.
"multi million dollar arsenal" *shows laser*
loved that part
@@mrleon4922 not sure what basketball has to do with this?
All stupid efforts that consume time and money. One time investment of cheap floating balls to cover the surface of the pond will fix the problem.
"waterfowl protection specialist... we invented that title" fair enough XD
Just put a board saying "Toxic water , dont land here" 😺😺😄😄
he misses every shot but on purpose , so basically he never misses
And if he hits a bird accidentally?????
@@CARAUDIOFREAK02 Then it’s an accident...
@@CARAUDIOFREAK02 thats when he actually misses...... or maybe not.
@@ri5410 Lmao 🤣
I like the way you think, we should be friends😁
Great work and a real dream job to me. Shooting guns, cannons, using drones, and other grown-up toys.
While also saving birds and wildlife.
I'm jealous.
@@pizza6357
@@pizza6357 Potentially high pay, no challenging of morals in day-to-day, being outdoors all day, constantly doing a good thing, shooting guns and using other big kid gadgets... nah man. Definitely would not get bored and would even resist retirement to do this as long as possible.
Foh
@@pizza6357 Have you ever shot a gun? There's no way they'd get bored
@@iamthefuss934 deeezzzz
historians are going to think a wild battle went on here for 30 years
Bird: "i heard about this one place where they got fireworks show, it's in our migration rute so we could just stop by."
Other birds: "that's sounds fun, what's the catch"
The bird: "eh, a quick bath in acidic lake and probably a hit by missed gunshots"
"Has anyone pointed out the irony that you protect birds and then go hunting". As an avid outdoors man there is no irony here. Wildlife conservation and protection is spearheaded by those who use the resource the most. I love fishing and do everything in my power to protect our lakes. Without a healthy fish population I would lose sustenance, a passion and most importantly a beautiful array of water creatures beyond those predatory fish we catch.
Same can be said about land animals and birds! Wild Turkey re-population in Ontario was spearheaded by hunters. That has been a huge conservation effort success.
Dump thousands of floating balls in this pit, so that the entire water surface is completely covered and there is no water exposed!!
That way the aquatic birds won't even see the water and won't be able to get to the water ither.
legit feel the same as an avid fisherman, nothing pisses me off more then people tainting the nearby lakes and rivers by killing every non "food" fish they catch and not removing their old fishing lines and plastic garbage from the surrounding area, too many a time have i had to remove shitloads of braided fishing lines left behind by careless "fishers" that would otherwise surely have caused devastation and/ or death to the wildlife in the area. This all seems ironic since i like fishing myself and in doing so hurt the fish caugt on my line but atleast i do my part in trying to keep the fish and nearby seafowl population somewhat healthy for future generations. As you stated, hunters, fishermen and outdoorsmen are usually the people who are the most educated in and try their best to keep the ecosystem at a healthy rate so that other generations can experience and be part of it in the future, as ironic as it may seem to some.
@@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax buddy stop spamming the chat
@@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax That may actually be a good idea!
Amen
Mark loves his job and it shows. That's rare.
I'm so happy to see his legitimate excitement, good on you Mark!
Are you really that happy for him ?
@@jsl2411 Yeah! Seeing people happy makes me happy. Seeing people miserable makes me feel bad.
Mark seems legitimately happy about what he does and seems happy to share it with others. That's pretty cool in my book.
Who wouldn't like this job lol
Who wouldn't enjoy getting paid to keep the environment alive ironically by shooting guns at what you're protecting . Win win lol
@@enriquerenteria6089 right
Have one shooting at the water to save the birds from spoiling, then a friend shoot them down when they are no longer over the water.
Genius.
I’d love to have this job seems super relaxing and chill😂❤
this is why these companies should be held accountable for this type of behavior. They just decied "okay lets shut the pumps off" considering all of this.
plot twist. this has always been an acidic lake before any humans touched it...
bruh there literally was no lake there before they dug the pit@@dakota5532
@dakota5532 why are you stating that falsehood as though it is fact?
@@dakota5532 you do realize humans dug the pit right?
The problem is that women vote.
So you can't just hook an atomic reactor to the pumps and keep them running forever.
In any normal world, they'd do so, but we have expensive energy. Because women vote and are irrational about nuclear power.
This guy is adorable.
He's such a pure innocent lad.
A model human
What we should strive for
Sus
@@AlMai222 Sussy
Based upon a segment of a few minutes... this Olive guy judges and comments about peoples life. Cancelling them or praising them, one comment a day.
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I feel like a tarp would be more efficient than hiring a guy to near birds all day.
Maybe try putting a lid on that pond. Spray foam up the banks and across the water 4 or 5 feet thick. The entire thing! Companies will be able to tell you the best type of foam to handle the weather forever but the foam hardens strong enough to walk across. Maybe 6 or 7 feet but put a lid on it. Spraying 10 feet up the banks holds it in place.
Many people don’t understand that true, real hunters are some of the people who care most about nature and it’s wildlife
Preservation is key. Every hunter wants their kids to have the same experience they had...
Sure bud - if they care, why do they murder and kill? True nature and wildlife lovers are vegans and don't kill innocent animals for sport or food.
@@keithrichardscorpse1230 it's the cycle of nature, those who love nature may want to participate in it in a more personal manner.
Murder is a part of life, its natural.
Unlike the mass murder of cattle in slaughterhouse, I hope you understand
@@keithrichardscorpse1230 that's such a subjective statement, don't say "true nature and wildlife lovers are vegans", you are attempting to apply your own wishes and own self beliefs onto groups of people, please shut up, thank you and have an amazing day.
@@keithrichardscorpse1230 Hunters are not poachers or "murderers". There is an important difference between a hunter and a poacher. All hunters (not poachers) have a deep respect for the wildlife that they claim and they pay it back in the form of conservation. Each & every responsible hunter pays into conservation each & every year in the form of conservation stamps and the liscense (or "tag") fee$. That money then goes into monitoring & conserving wildlife on the entire continent and not just from hunting but also from natural disasters. Read on, i got more...
* This then gives jobs to those working in conservation and hunters are the only reason they get paid for having those jobs.
* The hunt itself (claim not "murder") also benefits the genetics, disease, and balances life as it should be.
* Tags are only issued at a rate that balances the population, not just kills it into some kind of fantasy extinction.
"So, Waterfowl Protection Specialist. How'd you get that name anyway?"
"Gave it to myself. A real man chooses his own name."
Well hello, Waterflow Protection Specialist. I am Galactic President Superstar McAwesomeville.
This man is a Hero.
"you know, i dream, sleep, eat, poop ducks" 😂
I wouldn’t even need to set an alarm for this, like most soul sucking jobs. This looks fun and I’d probably be in a good mood waking up 99% of the time . It’s outdoors and it’s helping animals. You get to play with expensive toys and shoot guns. This guy has the life.
I WANNA DO THISSS
I'd like you to fall into the lake
I'd apply for this
@@amritpalsidhu6454 Theres always someone like you, enjoy the moment negative nancy.
@@amritpalsidhu6454 Running an excavator is fun to me and that's certainly a job.
To be even half as happy as that man would be a beautiful time.
You need happiness I assume, there is happiness out here , you just have to inject it, it’s the vaccine, I’ll never achieve happiness I suppose
I doubt he is much happier than anyone else in life.
@@jamiedhuskey6643 ????????????????????????????????????????????????????
This is excellent work 💪
I live and Butte Montana and i can confirm everything in this video is real especially the giant toxic pit we live next to.
You can hear the alarm throughout the town like he said? Looks like a neighborhood not too far off from the pit
This is the funniest kind of animal protection, ever. Love it.
Part of me wishes there were an easier way to keep them from ever landing, yet another part doesn’t want a thing to change because this guys clearly loves what he does and that makes me so happy.
Don't worry, there's no easier or more efficient way to accomplish something than to employ a bunch of people who actually likes to do it.
Something like a net?
@@marianheitmann1337 I thought so but tangling is too much a risk, also stuff getting stuck under
I wonder if shade balls (or whatever they're called) could also be an alternative..
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 there probably is but they mentioned an active cleanup is underway so there might not be an easier way to do this that allows access for the cleanup
That was a change of pace from my normal viewing :-)
That guy firing the rifle with no hearing protection is going to have atrocious hearing by the end of his career.
just to clarify- i have lived in Butte for about 25 years. not long after we moved here, a flock of geese landed in the pit and they all died. at first they claimed that the geese had died from 'something else', but eventually determined it was the pit water. it was then that they got serious about keeping birds out of the pit. I do hear the siren often, since I work pretty much just below 'lake berkeley'
That must be annoying noise pollution
@@abzy4368 no, what's disgusting is the actual pollution, the noise is a reminder.
@@abzy4368 Your thought process is annoying.
@@abzy4368 At least the noise doesn't kill anything, lesser of two evils.
why not fill the pit up?
This guy seems so genuine. What a great story, saving life and species instead of extended desecration. 🙂
"Defamation, if you wanna bring it to the masses"
If they do the opposite which is Cleaning the lake
They could start with removing sulfurs and salts
A rare quality these days, being genuine. It's like Westworld out there
@@imalsodontai5677 I was gonna do that lol
@@orgyinthemorgue lol
"He LOVES these animals" the narrator said, as the man stood in front of his *other* bird guns.
"this water literally boils us alive, lets keep landing here"
Something that's glossed over here towards the end of the interview is the supposed irony of being a waterfowl hunter while loving and conserving wildlife. You can do both, and most do. You protect the resources the animals need to survive while not overhunting yourself. It's incredibly common and seems to be overlooked often by those who don't care for hunting.
Few people care more about wildlife conservation than hunters. Hunters spend more time in nature actually interacting with it than the average person. An average person, especially an average city dweller, will just parrot whatever conservation talking points sound nice enough to make them look good, while not having any real understanding of what they're saying. A hunter who spends a lot of time in nature and actively participates in the circle of life has a lot more reason to directly care about the biosphere of their hunting ground than an average person has to care about stuff that happens in some forest that they've never visited.
@@Thalanox Well said.
@@Thalanox if there were no hunters population would be out of control for all of the animals, hunters are necessary and useful but often hated by people who have only ever followed a trail
@@mryork_ In Michigan deer hunters are hugely important. Humans have displaced all the apex predators that kept the deer populations in check. Without those controls the deer population explodes, with many very bad consequences.
Human hunters have to fill the role that the natural predators humans have pushed out used to perform.
@@mryork_ Is deer hunting really mostly used for population control? Does it have a significant effect?
Am I missing something
This sound like perfect for a job
Nope. This is THAT much of a nothing burger.
Imagine having a multi-million dollar setup for something that could've been solved with a tarp.
a tarp that is made of plastic, is notorious for taking damage from literally everything, which means a windstorm blowing sticks and debris will shred it? that just seems even worse.
Nice set up too!!!
"The perfect job doesn't exist"
Guy chases birds off water with drones and guns
At Career Day at my high school, there would have been a line to sign up for that job
If only a dog could do this it would be the Greatest Job
This is mental people enjoy killing birds or as they put it “scarring birds” that’s all
hearing about miners choking up talking about seeing thousands of dead birds in the pit is a good reminder that on an individual level none of us _want_ to create pollution; it's a problem that we create as an aftereffect, because it's easier or cheaper to do things the wrong way... or that sometimes there is no 'right' way, or sometimes even because something no one expected happened. It's a problem that we all create together, through our demands for goods, and it is something we all need to find solutions for together.
And human beings are still a fledgling/adolescent techno race with no parental model. It takes hundreds of years to get your sh|t straight. The important thing is that we clearly know that natural harm is bad and our trajectory is towards improvement.
For all we know, we may be the best behaved species in the galaxy! lol
A lot of miners and oil workers genuinely care about the environment
That solely lays on the back of the rich owners that know it destroys everything but still do it to make a few extra dollars they don't have to live there they buy mansions in New York while the workers are left fucked because they are locals actually affected by the greed of the rich
True, but human beings (as individuals) create only a fraction of pollution/waste. It is large corporations that create the vast majority of waste and pollution
You know what's the best solution to solve every environmental crisis happening but no one is talking about? Stop breeding. Seriously, wheb there are less people, there's a lower overall carbon footprint and thus no necessity to provide them with their human needs which in turns, damage the environment (yes, Thanos was right)
"So what do you do?"
"Oh I save wildlife by shooting at them."
I once dated a guy who grew up on a ranch in Montana. His job in the summers was riding horseback and shooting prairie dogs. (They kill cattle.)
He was recruited for sniper school...