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Shark Cull
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http://theconversation.com/whats-the-real-risk-of-being-bitten-by-a-shark-in-western-australia-23132
WesternTiger said:
A welcome, sober-minded perspective. A similar recent study conducted by Professor Peter Sprivulis for the Australasian Medical Journal found swimming south of Perth in spring to be ten times more dangerous than riding a pushbike.
Comparing the "worst case scenario" figure from WesternTiger's link, i.e. 1 in 15,000 for a diver in certain conditions, with horse racing, and ignoring for the minute the number of uncounted rides in track gallops and trials:
Last decade: 7 deaths from ~1,900,000 official runners = ~1/270,000 chance of a jockey being killed in a horse race in Australia.
I'm certain it would take much less than an 18-fold increase in the risk to jockeys to bring about major safety reforms.
This one hasn't received much coverage here.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shark-attack-deaths-can-cut-3147732
Anyone up for a test?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shark-attack-deaths-can-cut-3147732
Anyone up for a test?
I was quizzed on Friday night over my refusal to eat Shark's Fin soup. It was pointed out that as an Australian, I was being a tad hypocritical now that WA are culling sharks.
The best I could do was explain that WA, despite the name, really isn't part of Australia. They seemed to buy that eventually.
The best I could do was explain that WA, despite the name, really isn't part of Australia. They seemed to buy that eventually.
LeeToRainesToRoach said:
i have a wetsuit with stripes and have never been attacked by a shark........
George Monbiot nails it
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/feb/19/western-australia-shark-cull-irrational-fear?CMP=ema_632
TL : DR
so basically he's saying that the knee jerk response of policy makers is to try to legislate safety. The less interesting but obvious part of the article is the role of the media and film-makers in demonising sharks.
Personally I don't want to live in a world without risk - as if such a thing were ever possible anyway. We now live in a society where increasingly our freedoms are curtailed because of "terrorism" and it's the security-crats and the safety-crats who are trying to convince us that in order to be safe, we must live in cotton wool.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/feb/19/western-australia-shark-cull-irrational-fear?CMP=ema_632
TL : DR
so basically he's saying that the knee jerk response of policy makers is to try to legislate safety. The less interesting but obvious part of the article is the role of the media and film-makers in demonising sharks.
Personally I don't want to live in a world without risk - as if such a thing were ever possible anyway. We now live in a society where increasingly our freedoms are curtailed because of "terrorism" and it's the security-crats and the safety-crats who are trying to convince us that in order to be safe, we must live in cotton wool.
Declared a success hey.
http://theconversation.com/five-take-home-messages-from-was-official-shark-cull-numbers-26381
http://theconversation.com/five-take-home-messages-from-was-official-shark-cull-numbers-26381
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