The Meg: Aftermath and post-aftermath of Another Shark movie

The Meg: Aftermath and post-aftermath of Another Shark movie

The Meg is a horror/thriller movie based on very much the same premise as Jaws, It's almost the natural successor to Jaws but with better graphics/CGI but pretty much the same movie premise. A Massive shark is found by a marine explorers after a bunch of people are trapped inside of a nuclear submarine. The shark then goes on a massive rampage killing people indiscriminately including a few higher ups within the Zhang corporation. This movie being so closely related to Jaws raises a few concerns of mine, not just because of the fear of sharks rising because of it but because what that fear leads to.

After Jaws was released there was a massive outpouring of people with a fear of the Ocean, naturally citing Jaws as the Inspiration for that. To them it was a Rational fear, but the statistics would say otherwise, According to the Florida Museum of Natural History on average 1 person is killed by sharks each year. Roughly 11,000 people per year go to Bondi beach in Australia (where sharks are more prevalent), and i would say 1 death a year of 11,000 people are good odds. You have a 1 in 11,000 chance of being killed by a Shark in Australia. So their fear isn't rational, 2nd of all The Meg and Jaws are fictional movies, that doesn't happen, you are 38 times more likely to be hit my a lightning strike than get eaten/killed by a shark. This fear leads to a lot of environmental issues but the main one is the lack of care for sharks themselves.

According to the Journal Marine Policy, an estimated 100 million sharks are killed by Humans per year, that's roughly 11,400 Sharks per hour. This isn't for some rare organ sharks have, it's all for a Chinese dish called Shark Fin Soup. A rather bland dish that according to Gordon Ramsey has no flavour and is just cartilage. The longer the fear of sharks goes on the longer people won't care that they are being massacred by the millions. Sharks already have a low population rate by humans because the average mother shark has 20-30 babies only 10% of which make it to adulthood.

Sharks play a massive part to play in the Ecosystem, they are the apex predator of the natural ocean and by killing them off you will inevitably have more issues than the worry that a shark will kill you when you go swimming, you likely won't have that much food left after a few years and that alone has to make you stop and reconsider what's more important to you. Your fear of sharks or fear of contributing to an environmental crisis. I'll link to a few charities that you can donate to that are campaigning to ban shark finning practices.

Charities i recommend donating to

1. Shark Trust: https://www.sharktrust.org/en/stop_shark_finning

2. Bite-Back: https://www.bite-back.com/

3. WildAid: https://wildaid.org/programs/sharks/

Sources:

Shark kill statistics: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/compare-risk/lightning-strikes/

Shark Massacre statistics: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sharks-killed-per-hour-infographic_n_2965775