On-Blog Environmental Writing
I have been writing lots of science coverage for an educated non-expert audience in recent years, in many cases for quality print and online media. But I have also put some of my environmental writing directly on my blog, Some of the topics are a bit on the complex side, and would not “sell” well to media, others are a tad controversial, yet others I really wanted to get out into the internet public right away. I think these blog posts cover aspects of environmentalism which have been under-covered elsewhere.
The first blog post: Why spearfishing on scuba is either dangerous for the spearfisher, or ecologically harmful. With personal anecdotes of the former case:
Related to the previous post: why are large, old female fish are especially valuable for fish populations, and why it’s an especially bad idea to kill them to eat them:
Are all sharks protected by law in the Philippines? If not, which ones are, and why?
Does photographing seahorses with a strobe kill, maim or traumatize them? Do you like a flash in your face? If the answer is NO!, are you a seahorse?
This was a very hot topic for a while, when NFTs were the talk of the internets. There was a “study” which “showed” that the certificates consumed Stardestroyer-level amounts of energy. How well did that study hold up?
I hope these posts are insightful and informative to you,
Best Fishes,
Klaus
