REN R260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Harpoon
19 Sep 2016
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Fred: not legal, cultural - international relationships and reputation, ecosystem impact. Statistical arguments: consumption is actually going down in japan (fred"s poll) - don"t have all of the information perhaps. Numbers are down because whaling is technically banned - people may not want to eat it anymore because it is frowned upon. Tuesday, january 12, 2016: polls - biased, the idea that if the majority supports it, it must be correct. Sustainability: yes - if sustainable, whaling is ok, social, environmental, and economic aspects, no, all sheries have collapsed eventually. Technological advances: 1868 - norwegian sven foyn invents the harpoon gun and the explosive harpoon, 1905 - whalers move into antarctic and discover large populations of blue whales and. Blue whales: largest creature known to have existed on earth, about 30 000 harvested in 1931, today the population is estimated to be about 3000-4000, scientists believe we will never get the population back up.
