Joe Rogan: JOE ROGAN Fish are becoming EXTINCT

we are wiping out fish at a [ __ ]staggering rate an alarming rate yeahyeah scientists predict that eight yearsis all it would take to bring it back to100 or maybe it was 98 what if westopped fishing the ocean for eightyears it would be back to nearly ahundred percent for currency 100 perfectnearly but we'd have to get all thecountries on board yeah that means eightyears all the fishermen would starve andnot to mention fish is the primarysource of protein for like the majorityof the planet it's a hundred millionsharks a year we're killing just sharks100 million a year just think about thatthat is so many animalsum it's crazy yeah so I mean are theoceans [ __ ] my short answer is nobecause I don't like to think in thatDoom and Gloom I think if we continue atthe rate that we're doing it we're gonnasee a big collapse and and by the waypeople seem to forget about this if welose the ocean we all dieit's the biggest carbon neutralizer itgives us all of our protein like there'sa million reasons why the ocean it'swhere all our rain comes from everythingis connected to the ocean and if we [ __ ]that up completely we're goneyeah and yet here we are like day afterday doing everything we can just dumpingstuff into the ocean those trawlers thatare like scraping the bottom all thestarfish and skates and coral Reevesit's crazy I Love Sushi it's the bestfavorite food in the whole world I knowbut we're all Hypocrites in that regardso [ __ ] there's just so many goddamnpeople and so much need yep yeah I meanif if people were forced to gather theirown food and hunt for their own food youknow we'd have a completely differentthought about like where food comes from100 but the fact that you could justpull in a Jack In The Box get a burgerright or eat a piece of cow no problemyeah yeah it's the connectedness man I Istand by that I think I've become moreand more of a proponent for it as I getolder but it's just like people need toconnect with nature and connect withanimals if they can do that they canhave appreciation I I just think peopleneed to connect to Nature more yeahwe're very disconnected it's just such anew thing too that human beings live inthese massive population centers likeLos Angeles and New York and are soremoved from the process of like wheretheir food comes from completely andutterly to the point that humans aredisgusted by it like you see thesecomments online or like oh my God howcan you cut that fish up or how can youfillet that you know that deer or cleanthat elk or whatever it's like where the[ __ ] do you think your food's comingfrom and there's some people if they'renot eating fish and meat they don'tunderstand what mono crop agriculture isdoing to the Earth and that's ten timesworth it's the worst it's dude we wentto Borneo for two days all we saw wasoil palm for two days I'm not jokingit's just like eight nine hours ofdriving per day Plantation afterPlantation of monoculture One Singularcrop wiping outvirgin primary jungle to plant this oilbomb it was devastating nothing lives init and palm oil is used for everythingeverything your Nutella your peanutbutter your it's like the cheapestversion of oil just for for days Joe I'mnot kidding it is devastating to seeall that Wildlife all that habitat it'sall destroyed for this mono crop yep allgone yes look at that picture 1950versus 2020. look at that 1950 look atthe amount of Virgin jungle 2020 lookwhat's left wow it's literally likethere's maybe 30 left and so we drove upthat sort of Coastline that you seethere and it's just you just see nothingyeah exactly thank you and you just it'sit's on unfathomable that we can do thisjust to be a big bow hunting destinationyeah oh yeah yeah because they used tohave a bunch of different uh speciesthat someone had brought over there atone point in time like elk and deer andyeah and they killed them all like froma helicopter so there was elk on SantaRosa and then Santa Cruz which is thebiggest one had sheep and pigs for awhile they opened up like tag huntinglike come out and get your elk and getyour pig yeah but then eventually thestate just said like it's we got to dosomething about have you heard about theJudas goat do you know what that is yesyeah the Judas code is a process inwhich say you're trying to eradicategoats from an island well the goats wakeup they get they get aware that there'sa helicopter buzzing overhead andsomebody's shooting them and they allstart scattering and getting scared andit becomes harder and harder to get thelast 10 percent so they do the thingcalled a Judas go where they go andcatch a goat put a collar on it and thenlet the goat go and the Goat Finds Itsfriends and they mow down all of theother animals and leave the Judas GoatWho then pops over to the next group ofgoats so you're a real shitty friend ifyou're the Judas code or you're justdumb as [ __ ] and you're beingmanipulated by people true I think theycastrate them too how did people killoff the passenger pigeon because itwasn't the passenger when there aremillions and millions of pasture pigeonsmillions millions yeah they used theysaid they would black out the sky righthere right here in Texas yeahum so one they were hunted tremendouslybut the the main reason they were such aflocking bird that once their numberswere reduced to the point that theycouldn't have such large flocks theyweren't successful any longer they nolonger had the ability to behave the waythat they had typically behaved in thesehuge flocks and that was making themunsuccessful how did they not know thatthey were on their way to getting rid ofthem how'd they not know that that washappening again I don't believe theydidn't isn't it crazy how differentpeople look at things like WildlifeConservation today yeah versus just afew hundred years ago it's like whoopsguess who killed all the Bison yeahtotally you know that's why radicalconservation like the you know bringingback mammoths and rewilding wolves andstuff like that like we need that Joeyeah because conservation we [ __ ]suck at it we've been doing it for like100 years and we are losing every singleyear we are not winning there are smalllittle successful stories don't get mewrong but on a grand scale we are losingthe conservation game so radicalconservation crazy science experimentsand bringing stuff back putting wolvesin Yellowstone whatever it is tryingsomething is better than not tryinganything and continuing down the pathwe've been going the only animals thatwe're really good at conserving are theones we want to eat oh yeah there's morewhite-tailed deer in North America todaythan the Whirlwind Columbus arrivedright and that's fine 100 because ofhunting it is and also because ofAgriculture right because they flock tothese agriculture areas corn fieldsthat's why yeah like places like Iowayes all these Farms like there's so manydeer giant deer in Iowa right it'sactually amazing the job that Wildlifebiologists have done in this country andconservationists absolutely like they'rereally pretty goddamn good at setting uplike uh the correct number of tags andmaking sure that oh your habitat ispreserved and allocating that money forRangers and wardens and making sure thatthese people you know like monitor theseanimals and stop poaching and in NorthAmerica we are very good at it like on aglobal scale yeah the problem is wealways it doesn't matter if you're NorthAmerica or anywhere wait until the veryend to do it oh there's only 12 of themleft or whatever now we're gonna put inall this effort it's like yeah beingpreventative instead of reactive is isthe ticket moving forward and we arestarting to make that shift you know Iam so interested in seeing what theydecide to do if this really takes off inSiberia with the woolly mammoths if theyreintroduce them just not just in Alaskabut then bring them into Montana andbring them into you know the lower 48and then start reintroducing otherthings well they can figure out how todo that with a saber-toothed tiger thatwould be [ __ ] I mean it's so scarythey're 10 or maybe 20-year goal is 600100000 mammoths over like 1.3 million milessix hundred thousand miles a lot ofmammoths but they'll start reproducingon their own right it's like they'regonna make them all