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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’

www.theguardian.com

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Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’

www.theguardian.com

NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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Activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring
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    No we can not. This is fucked up. It’s one rich guy’s hobby:

    https://ranflygenring.substack.com/p/my-whale-report

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      Amazing that such sweeping devastation can be tracked back to one piece of shit.

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        I’m not Icelandic nor am I a lawyer, but i bet he would stop if his car were harpooned enough times.

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          I’m pretty sure he would stop if he were harpooned once. Harpoons don’t just grow on trees y’know, gotta be thrifty.

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      So it’s not some indigenous thing like in the Americas and is just pure evil capitalism? Ugh!

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        Yup, we don’t even eat whale, only tourists do because they think it’s part of our culture.

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      And here is the asshole making a whole nation look bad yet again;

      https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/13/the-last-whaler-we-can-hunt-forever-says-iceland-kristjan-loftsson

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