All week I’ve been hearing different stories about this. Some are even saying he caught the whale wit his bare hands! Yet still, everyone thinks it is a joke. I saw Ambroise talking to Clovis, the banker’s son, a few days ago. He was saying that he was going to catch another whale and bring Clovis along as a witness.
Mike Peterson EN 1420 composition Instructor: Michelle Gullickson Title; Research Journal #1 The Whales have won! –ICJ rules Japans southern Ocean Whaling ‘not for scientific reach’ Author; Sea Shepard conservation society #2 key points: The international court of justice ruled in the case of Australia-v-Jupon that japans JARPA II whaling program in the Aunt artic is not for scientific purposes and all permits given be revoked. #3 Sea Shepard conservation societies were incorporated in the united in 1981 in the state of Oregon. The idea of sea Shepard was formed by Captain Paul Watson he also founded earth force society in 1977 in Vancouver BC, Canada. Both organizations were for marine mammal protection and conservation.
They have no natural enemies except man and power boats which are responsible for most manatee deaths- (in 1990, 218 manatees or 12 % of the total population were killed by boats), though the red tide (toxins released from the bloom of dinoflagellates) of 1982 and1996 killed over 15% of the population. It is suspected that environmental pollutions create disease vulnerability in marine mammals with manatees being no exception. An example is when 10,000 seals died in 1988 in Denmark and Sweden from viruses related to canine distemper. High concentrations of PCB’s were detected in necropsies of these seals, presumably from the water and fish they ate. Other threats include accidental
Whales are mammals that live for a long time and breed slowly. Every year or so, a female gives birth to a single calf that takes many years to mature and begin its own breeding cycle. With this slow life cycle, mass commercial whaling can easily lead to extinction (Greenpeace). The commercial whaling industry had existed for many centuries in other oceans before whalers moved into the Southern Ocean. In the beginning of the 20th century whalers began to exploit the herds of southern whales.
It is also a problem that does not have many possible solutions, causing it to be the most detrimental to harp seals. Economically the elimination of harp seal hunting will affect the lives of commercial hunters and those who purchase the pelts. This issue is not solely negative as the Canadian Government plans to compensate the hunters with new professional training. Lastly this issue could eventually lead to the extinction of a
Whaling in the Faroe Islands Whaling has long been a topic of great controversy between opposing viewpoints. On one side are the pro-whaling groups, and on the other side are the strongly opinionated anti-whalers. Claims are often made by these anti-whaling groups that whaling is inhumane, indecent, and uncalled for. They are also prone to make statements that are incorrect and biased; Their statements usually present no truthful information. Whaling in the Faroe Islands is not as cruel as many think - It is conducted in a humane manner with regards to both the population and the pain of the whales.
Some people believe that culture is a way that morality can be established, but morality differs from culture to culture. In Doing Ethics, Lewis Vaughn talks about cultural relativism and lays out an argument for it. In the second premise it states “If people’s judgments about right and wrong differ from culture to culture, then right and wrong are relative to culture, and there are no objective moral principles” (Vaughn 26). He makes it clear that he does not support this premise and explains his points as to why this is false. Cultural relativism is the idea that the moral principles someone has are solely determined by the culture one lives in.
Santos explains that the environmental issues “date back to the nineteenth century, when trappers, fishermen, and naturalists campaigned against the unrestrained exploitation of American’s pristine environmentals,” (Santos, 1999). Can we really give a date that this became a problem? All we know is that it has been an issue for many years. Most Americans do not realize that pollutants can harm our senses like sight, smell, and even taste. It can also cause health hazards.
The first people of the Arctic, hunted walrus and eat dogs when they went hungry, they also hunter caribou and fish in small groups. The Inuit followed the wales, seals and caribou. The technology was a great difference between the native groups. The people of Atlantic Canada for example constructed fish traps, made bows and arrows, they also made spears, clubs and long stemmed pipes. They made birchbark canoes, show shoes and the unique technology of the toggle head spear.
Thus, since cultural relativism states that we can’t judge other cultures moral codes, then we must be tolerant of them. The Cultural Relativism theory generates an argument in a form of proposing a conclusion about morality based upon facts of a culture. For example, infanticide is a moral code of the Eskimo society. The Eskimo’s believe that infanticide is morally acceptable while American’s view infanticide as iniquitous. As a conclusion, infanticide is not right or wrong because it depends on the cultures opinion and beliefs about infanticide.