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We Need to Blackfish the Climate Crisis

John Boal 9/11, Al Gore, author, Be A Global Force Of One, Blackfish, book, Caring and Community, celebrities, celebrity, Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate the Spirit of Courage, climate, crisis, CSI, David Letterman, documentary, editorial, film, Gisele Bundchen, Guardian, Harrison Ford, In Your Hometown, Inconvenient Truth, International Day of Climate Action, Jack Black, killer, Marshall McLuhan, Matt Damon, op-ed, opinion, orca, orcas, People’s Climate March, PETA, plea, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Someplace With a Mountain, Steve Goodall, story, Sun Come Up, The Day After Tomorrow, The Island President, thriller, Tilikum, Time to Choose, Tom Zubrycki, video, whale, whales

An activist and author pleas for filmmakers to make a Blackfish for the climate crisis, that is, a film so compelling that it forces people to take action on behalf of emissions reduction.

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Circus Elephants: A Thing of the Past for Ringling?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer animal, ASPCA, circus, circus elephants, conservation, elephant, HSUS, PETA, rights

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey has transitioned its remaining circus elephants to a Florida-based facility focused on conservation, care and research…

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Do orcas really live as long in captivity as in the wild?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Blackfish, captive breeding, captivity, killer, Marine Mammal Science, orca, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, Seaworld, Shamu, Theriogeneology, Tilikum, Tillikum, whale

Dear EarthTalk: I’ve been seeing this ad on TV a lot by SeaWorld claiming they don’t take orcas from the wild and that orcas live just as long in captivity as they do in the wild. Are these claims true? —Mary Cleveland, Coral Gables, FL […]