Oh there’s only like 200 whales left, might as well finish them off - icelandic gov.
Minke has a minimum population estimate of 17000, so you are a bit off there. https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/2022-08/Com Minke Whale-Can E Coast Stock_SAR 2021.pdf
Good job their industry doesn’t kill 217 per year guaranteeing its pathway to extinction then!
Come on, it was fucking obvious the prior user was doing hyperbole why did you feel the need to do a smarmy correction? Extremely reddit behaviour.
Well the prior user was implying that the purpose of whaling is to hunt them to extinction, which is a pretty strange policy to have for any nation. Is that actually Icelands purpose in the whale hunting, to make them extinct?
legalize hunting icelandic politicians instead
On the plus side everyone will shut the fuck up about claims that Chinese research ships are all disguised whaling vessels.
They never really stopped bitching about Japan until China’s economy blew up. It’ll be all about China until some other country joins the 10+ trillion GDP club.
Its not just economics, there’s also a racism component. Even though the Japanese and South Koreans are treated by white westerners as “the good Asians”, they’re still kept out of the white westerner club by forms of cultural othering that can be hidden and deployed when convenient. Japanese food is amazing high cuisine (except they’re barbarians that eat whales). Korean pop music is great (except they’re all tricking us with their plastic surgery). Etc, etc.
China’s main crime as far as this dynamic goes is exceeding the West economically while having so much cultural confidence that it can simply not give a fuck how the West judges it.
That seems like the kinda rhetoric that’d get you strung up as a capitalist pig by your hexbear compatriots.
I propose we give James Cameron total authority over the US 6th Fleet with carte blanche to resolve this.
Nuke the whales
Give the whales nukes
