Japanese hunt endangered humpback whales - Page 3 - Political Fever

Jesus H. Lincoln · #21 (**permalink**) 12-27-2007, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Viv

I see a lot of potential serial killers in the room. There is a correlation, you know...

Jesus, everything is food or sex with you...

Better yet is food and sex at the same time, like eating buffalo wings while scoring.

Even better still is sex with food.

OK, maybe not...

<--- although I like the looks of this here banana

#22 (**permalink**) 12-27-2007, 03:17 PM

A few Greenpeace achievements and facts, briefly summarized just for you guys...

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Greenpeace Interview
1971
The Greenpeace movement really began because the US government planned to carry out a series of nuclear tests in the Aleutian Islands, off Alaska. A group of North American and Canadian environmentalists chartered a boat to take them to the test area and there began their protest. As a result of the enormous publicity the protest created, only one test explosion was carried out and the rest were abandoned. The area is now a bird sanctuary.

1978
A North Sea fishing trawler was converted into the Greenpeace campaign ship, Rainbow Warrior, to protest against the Spanish and Icelandic whaling industries. In the same year, the campaign to stop the dumping of nuclear waste in the Atlantic Ocean was set in motion.

1980
In the UK Greenpeace became concerned at the transport by sea of spent nuclear fuel to the giant nuclear reprocessing plant at Windscale (Sellafield) in north-west England.
Independent scientific researchers calculated that if there was an accident with one of the ships carrying the nuclear cargo, many people would die of cancer. Greenpeace blocked the entrance to the harbour at Barrow-in-Furness to try to stop the Japanese vessel, the Pacific Fisher, from unloading its cargo of spent fuel, while at the same time, seven hundred people gathered in front of Barrow Town Hall to demonstrate against the arrival of the dangerous ship.

1985
Greenpeace set out again to Mururoa in the South Pacific to try to halt nuclear testing in the area. They sailed in the Rainbow Warrior to New Zealand. While the ship was anchored in Auckland harbour. French secret agents blew the boat up by planting limpet mines on its bottom. The slip exploded and sank, and one of the crew members. Fernando Pereira, was killed.

1987
The pipeline at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant which let nuclear waste flow out into the Irish Sea was blocked by Greenpeace to make people aware of the pollution it was causing. Already in 1983, about 650 cubic metres of highly active nuclear waste had been discharged into the sea and local people were worried about the high number of cases of leukemia among local children. One newspaper called the Irish Sea the 'Plutonium Sea'.

1988
Greenpeace activists climbed to the top of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London, to protest against acid rain and the damage it is causing to our atmosphere and environment. Greenpeace asked people to boycott Icelandic fish so that the government of Iceland would do something to stop the continuing slaughter of whales. A world ban on the burning of highly toxic materials at sea was agreed.

1989
The new Rainbow Warrior was launched.
Two Greenpeace campaigners climbed the House of Commons in Westminster, London, during the international 'Saving the Ozone Layer' conference, in an attempt to persuade governments to ban the use of CFCs immediately. The International Whaling Commission reported that the blue whale was almost extinct.

Dustin · #23 (**permalink**) 12-27-2007, 03:18 PM

Nontheless, the whales should not be hunted. It's wrong and the ecosystem will not do good if we loose these whales. Theres no reason whatsoever to do so, and they should be protected by international law!

#24 (**permalink**) 12-27-2007, 03:20 PM

And their approach to scientific research is eminently reasonable and responsible...more so than many of the capitalist globals they keep in check...

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http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/about/h...esearchScience is crucial to environmental protection. Many of the global problems we face - like climate change, ozone depletion, and the spread of hormone disrupting chemicals - can only be detected and understood through science.

Equally, science is used to justify the existence and deployment of environmental threats, such as nuclear power and genetically modified organisms.

Our opposition to these technologies has led to accusations that Greenpeace is 'anti-science'. This is far from the case. We depend on science and technology to provide solutions to environmental threats.

Because of this double-edged relationship with science, its use and governance is important to us and we are working to stimulate debate about the use of new technologies, as well as highlighting what is good and criticizing what is bad about current practices.

We have also critiqued the lack of public involvement in science and the need for reform of the relationship between science and society.

The Research Laboratories of Greenpeace International are located within the School of Biological Sciences, at Exeter University. See Greenpeace Research Laboratories for more information.

The Laboratories provide scientific expertise and analytical support to Greenpeace offices right around the world and have contributed to many important achievements in environmental protection over the last two decades. The lab's role is threefold:

Shaping our campaigns
Influencing policy
Changing opinions
Greenpeace frequently commissions scientific research reports and investigations in support of its campaigns. and the Laboratories often contribute to the research undertaken. We also use science to seek solutions. For example, in order to avoid fruitless scientific controversy over levels of harm of particular products, we seek to identify alternatives and provide ways in which the public and policy-makers can move towards a more sustainable future.

#25 (**permalink**) 12-27-2007, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Dustin

Nontheless, the whales should not be hunted. It's wrong and the ecosystem will not do good if we loose these whales. Theres no reason whatsoever to do so, and they should be protected by international law!

That is the reason people are so outraged by this story...the whales ARE protected by international law.

The Japanese are completely flouting the law by saying they are hunting 1000 whales for scientific research purposes. This allows the Japanese to circumvent the law, as there is a clause which allows the killing of whales for that purpose.

They were just doing what they liked, with no regard for international law.

Phædrus · #26 (**permalink**) 12-27-2007, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Viv

I see a lot of potential serial killers in the room. There is a correlation, you know...

Jesus, everything is food or sex with you...

Don't forget guns.

I like my buddy Dave's idea. He's an engineer, and he's raising money to build a tank. When he finishes it (he expects to have it done in about twelve years) he's going to roll down Main Street in it, blaring Ted Nugent through the sound system, while chugging barbeque sauce straight from the bottle. Then he's going to double-park it on the street in front of city hall and politely ask the mayor to stop violating his rights by illegally witholding his Weatherby that was confiscated for no reason other than a person who didn't like him accused him of playing music too loud.

Sounds like a damn fine idea to me.

#27 (**permalink**) 12-27-2007, 04:18 PM

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=Phædrus;11255]Don't forget guns.

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I like my buddy Dave's idea. He's an engineer, and he's raising money to build a tank. When he finishes it (he expects to have it done in about twelve years) he's going to roll down Main Street in it, blaring Ted Nugent through the sound system, while chugging barbeque sauce straight from the bottle. Then he's going to double-park it on the street in front of city hall and politely ask the mayor to stop violating his rights by illegally witholding his Weatherby that was confiscated for no reason other than a person who didn't like him accused him of playing music too loud.

Good luck with that idea...I have heard better ones...

Did you hear about the two golfish swimming in their tank...one looks at the other and says..."Hey, do you know how to drive this thing?"

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