>The history of whaling shows how humans have wreaked careless havoc on the ocean, but also how they can change course.
>In my new book, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling, I describe how the Soviet Union was central both to this deadly industry and to scientific research that helps us understand whales’ recovery.
Yeah.
They had to fill their 5-year plan, even if no one had any use for blubber or whale bones anymore.
This, and Aral, and the massive eastern european soil contamination from former factories, makes me laugh when i hear people try to present communism as a solution to our ecological woes.
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> The country accepted a global moratorium on commercial whaling, which remains in force today with only three holdouts: Norway, Iceland, and Japan.
As an aside to the main topic I think Japan still do the mass dolphin cull? Telegraph link paywalled but you get the idea from first sentence. No idea if grudges are the reason for dolphin attacks, but these animals must know who their enemy is by now.
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>The history of whaling shows how humans have wreaked careless havoc on the ocean, but also how they can change course.
>In my new book, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling, I describe how the Soviet Union was central both to this deadly industry and to scientific research that helps us understand whales’ recovery.
Yeah.
They had to fill their 5-year plan, even if no one had any use for blubber or whale bones anymore.
This, and Aral, and the massive eastern european soil contamination from former factories, makes me laugh when i hear people try to present communism as a solution to our ecological woes.
On topic
> The country accepted a global moratorium on commercial whaling, which remains in force today with only three holdouts: Norway, Iceland, and Japan.
As an aside to the main topic I think Japan still do the mass dolphin cull? Telegraph link paywalled but you get the idea from first sentence. No idea if grudges are the reason for dolphin attacks, but these animals must know who their enemy is by now.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/22/dolphins-hold-grudges-scientists-discover-mammals-will-help/
https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14690125
Well, the Brits actually hunted the Atlantic grey whale to extinction…
So Captain Ahab was Russian.