在19世纪的工业化浪潮中，人类大规模捕鲸，短短几十年间便改变了海洋的生态结构。如今，在史密森尼的“鲸鱼仓库”中，这些庞大的海洋生物以骨骼与标本的形式被保存下来，仿佛在无声讲述那段几近消失的历史。
What happens when you remove two to three million whales…in a very short period of time?
If you lived in New England in the mid-to-late 19th century, chances are the flames lighting your home, just like the ones guiding ships back to shore, were powered by whale oil.
And our mass consumption of these gigantic mammals didn't just change our lives - it altered the makeup of the entire oceans.
How could just a few decades of human exploitation have such a global impact?
That's what I wanted to know, and how I ended up in one of the strangest places I've ever visited.
I'm Shane Campbell-Staton, and this is Human Footprint.
Welcome to the Land of Giants here.
Wow.
Aw, see hell to the yeah, this is crazy.
How many whales do you have here?
