Space Evolution & Fishy Tales

The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast

Welcome to The People’s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast, this is how we roll here. Your co-hosts Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbut and William Mankelow discuss questions sent in by listeners all around the world. They don’t see the questions before they press record, making their conversations unique and off the cuff. You dear listener, hear that question at the same time as them.

In today’s episode we find the daring duo (one more daring than the other) discussing questions from the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

The first comes from Bronwen in Atlanta, Georgia, USA:

“Physiologically if humans colonise space, our bodies will alter, meaning we won’t be able to live back on Earth unless there are support systems in place. That evolution could see a new species evolve, and guess what, another opportunity for war. Colonising space could divide humans yet more instead of bringing us together, for the common good”.

Off the back of Bronwen’s question, Stuart and William discuss the physical challenges humans face in space exploration and colonization. William points out how space travel affects human physiology, even during short stays on the International Space Station, and reminds us that humans are still evolving as a species. Stuart highlights the significant threat posed by germs and viruses during space colonization, with William adding a parallel to historical continental colonization where diseases spread to new populations.

During this part of the discussion, Stuart mentioned the Queen track 39, here is a Spotify link if you would like to listen to it: Queen - 39

The second question for this episode comes from the very south of South America where Lucas in Punta Arenas, Chile provides the following question:

“Chile is the second biggest producer of Salmon in the world, after Norway I think. We have huge farms off the coast, with fish crammed together, cover in Lice and spreading infection. Do we really want to be eating that stuff? Once things take on an uncontrolled industrial scale, lots is lost?”

William right from the beginning of the discussion agrees entirely with Lucas’s point of view. Stuart then broadens the discussion by comparing it to how some free-range chickens are still kept in crowded conditions. He describes how farmed salmon are packed into underwater crates and suffer from lice infestations, with William adding that such overcrowding would cause similar problems even in humans.

Stuart ends the conversation with two important points: First, he advises people not to blindly trust food labels and instead research the claims made on packaging. Second, he concludes that people need to stop eating and consuming mindlessly, and should put more thought into their choices rather than taking the easy route.

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