mostly the reasons I don't go to many places is because its so expensive.
I think at Kelly Tarltons they have sharks and penguins and other sea creatures but not big mammals.
Seems to be quite an issue when animals come into contact with humans they lose their wildness I think and become dependent on us.
It can be a good or bad thing depending on how 'captive' we make them. But it's the same with humans, aren't we captive to cities/suburban ways of living which can be harmful to us? Its ok if you are in the wealthy 1% or above the breadline but the majority are not. And even wealthy elites go crazy and are prone to depression etc.
I think the difference is that the wealthy can always move and go somewhere else if they don't like where they are, (mobility etc) but those who are sticking it out are not free. Anyway.
Back to topic..I've been watching Michael Portillo's train journeys again. This time he goes to Australia taking his 1913 Bradshaws guide.
The trains in nz are very expensive to run and half the time they are not running lol. But back in the day I guess they represented the modern era of industrialisation and 'progress' . Today it's air flight. I was reading in the paper some moaning article about how nzers don't offset their flights with carbon credits/planting trees. Well the cost of a flight is ALREADY so expensive so how can an ordinary nzer afford to do that anyway??
I think at Kelly Tarltons they have sharks and penguins and other sea creatures but not big mammals.
Seems to be quite an issue when animals come into contact with humans they lose their wildness I think and become dependent on us.
It can be a good or bad thing depending on how 'captive' we make them. But it's the same with humans, aren't we captive to cities/suburban ways of living which can be harmful to us? Its ok if you are in the wealthy 1% or above the breadline but the majority are not. And even wealthy elites go crazy and are prone to depression etc.
I think the difference is that the wealthy can always move and go somewhere else if they don't like where they are, (mobility etc) but those who are sticking it out are not free. Anyway.
Back to topic..I've been watching Michael Portillo's train journeys again. This time he goes to Australia taking his 1913 Bradshaws guide.
The trains in nz are very expensive to run and half the time they are not running lol. But back in the day I guess they represented the modern era of industrialisation and 'progress' . Today it's air flight. I was reading in the paper some moaning article about how nzers don't offset their flights with carbon credits/planting trees. Well the cost of a flight is ALREADY so expensive so how can an ordinary nzer afford to do that anyway??