A Fever in Our Oceans: A Chat with Zack Rago of Chasing Coral

[Marine Depot]

 

By now you probably have seen or heard of Chasing Coral, a Netflix original documentary that was released worldwide on July 14. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix on the same day. Coral bleaching due to rising ocean temperatures is the focus of the film which took over 3 years to make. The film begins as a visual feast for any aquarium hobbyist but is overshadowed by the massive scale coral deaths that were documented with time lapse photography.

Zackery Rago features prominently in the documentary. Zack is a self proclaimed coral nerd from Colorado and built the camera systems that were used in the film. He confesses early on that the opportunity to work on the film given his passion for the hobby was a dream wish. He shares raw emotions throughout the film, often times breaking down at the sheer enormity of the events he is witnessing in that moment. Charlie Veron also makes an appearance and talks about his observations of the reefs past and present.

Also notable was the outreach that was done to ask divers and scientists from all over the world to participate. The film features excepts from global reports of similar events happening in oceans around the world. The film is easily able to communicate their objective of turning up the spotlight on a global problem in a powerful way.

We had a chance to ask Zack Rago some questions.

Read more at
https://blog.marinedepot.com/2017/07/fever-oceans-chat-zack-rago-chasing-coral.html

[brandon429]

fantastic!

[Marine Depot]

Go watch the movie!

 

https://www.netflix.com/title/80168188

 

 

[samnaz]

"Be conscious of your diet" - This can decrease your carbon footprint more than anything else. Animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gases than all transportation combined. No one wants to hear it, but eating less meat, especially beef, is the best thing you can do for the planet and truly make a difference. I'm not saying give it up completely, but at least consider "meatless Mondays". It's easy and it helps hugely, so I see no reason not to give it a try.  

[burtbollinger]

Many good-hearted people might very reasonably see "meatless Mondays" as a nice, responsible way to "make a difference"...but for someone more conspiratorially-minded, it is reminder of Agenda 2030, with "meatless Monday" feeling like trendy, feel good first step on a slippery slope.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[samnaz]

1 hour ago, burtbollinger said:

Many might reasonably see "meatless Mondays" as a nice, responsible way to "make a difference"...but for someone more conspiratorially-minded, it is reminder of Agenda 2030, with "meatless Monday" feeling like trendy, feel good first step on a slippery slope that leads to:

Control freak alarmist elites wanting to micromanage every aspect of your life, taxing you into accepting a lower standard of living, one-child-policy-ing you or sterilizing you, feeding you nutritious insects instead of meat (which they will continue to eat) and corraling you into living in a small box in a megacity.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure I understand how not eating meat is related to any of those things. It's my decision. Not the alarmist control freak elites you speak of. I'm not denying they exist or seek to control every aspect of my life, maybe it's true. Still got nothing to do with Meatless Mondays and not eating meat.

 

It does feel good - nothing wrong with that. If it was trendy more people would do it, and considering most people have never even given it a thought, it's far from trendy. If it was - nothing wrong with that either, if it means we destroy the planet a little less. Where's the harm in that?

[burtbollinger]

I certainly respect your personal decision.  You'd have to research fringe web sites on Agenda 21/Agenda 2030 for the opposing views...i'm hesitant to bog down my favorite forum with much more nonsense then I already have. I wish you all the best