Greenpeace reported there is indication that some in the present administration are championing a deal to undermine the whale moratorium of 1986 and secure the future of the outrageous and unnecessary practice of commercial whaling. Although the moratorium has been defied by Japan, Iceland, and Norway, it has proven to be the most important whale conservation agreement in history. Androcles emailed the president:
"Killing the whales in ocean waters is like deliberately killing the inhabitants of another country. Nothing can justify it. Most enlightened humans have evolved in their consciousness and subsequently in their thinking about humanity's relationship to other species with whom we share the earth.
With every day we see that wholesale killing is not the solution or the way for the web of life to continue on this planet.
The same developments that created civilizations and enabled the ascent of humans as the apex predators on the planet gave us two conflicting opportunities. One was the technology to eliminate entire species for food, clothing, industry and ornament or because we wanted exclusive use of the land they occupied. At the same time came the other opportunity: through thinking and observation we began to see the precious and essential web of all life. There is no defensible reason to continue the method of earlier and more primitive mankind by killing species without regard for global consequences.
We humans pride ourselves on being the most successful predators in the history of the planet. Also we pride ourselves on the gift of consciousness. When will our consciousness see the impractical, immoral and perilous consequences of rampant killing? No killing is simply a killing.
The wholesale elimination of other species by murder and destruction of territory is not consistent with our survival.
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