TWELVE MILES OFF PROVINCETOWN — The dark waters began to roil. Silently, two black, 70-ton leviathans emerged from the depths of Cape Cod Bay, skimmed the surface, then quickly slipped back into the sea. Scientists in a nearby boat tracked their “fluke prints” — the large surface swirls created from their underwater tail sweeps — but soon lost the watery trail of two of the world’s rarest whales.
For years, scientists have sounded a dirge for the North Atlantic right whale. Its population stalled around 300 in the 1990s, pushing some researchers to make mournful extinction predictions for the mysterious, 45-foot-long creatures that come to feed and frolic every spring off Cape Cod.
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Just curious... me driving my car (creating pollution) is bad...
But boats and planes are the worst polluters......
Why don't the environmentalists shut themselves down for the good of the planet?
(don't get me wrong - I want there to be whales in the ocean...and I'd happily shift any and all funding that goes to ILLEGAL ALIENS to support scientific research and support of the whales..... its just a funny double standard).
Your apparent anger at illegal aliens and environmentalists has made you unable to make logical coherent points. You can do better.
Not anger, just realism. Illegals are killing the country. Back in the day, immigrants came and worked or they starved. Today they come and get on the dole...taking $ from those that do work....killing the host.
But it is interesting... Environmentalists polute and that is okay.... as long as the polution supports their objectives.
Also funny (in a sad way) when they discovered the tags they were putting on penquins were impacting the penguins ability to feed .... so the environmentalists were killing the penguins they were studying...
If a "non-scientist" killed a penquin..... greenpeace would be all over it.... but when an environmentalist does it... Its okay? Its good?
Just asking the question. (the environmentalist position sounds an awful lot like the Japanese position on Whaling...which is aborent to most....)
Are there "environmental ethicists" who might postulate that the ends justify the means?
But back to my point.... I love the whales, I love the forests (did enough camping in the army that I need not step foot in another, but i *want* there to be forest and wild animals for those that do and future generations...), and in this time of fiscal crisis, I would prefer that we spend dollars on initiatives such as protecting the whales, and not on ILLEGAL ALIENS.
No hatred, just realism. We are encroaching on the whales territory....the ILLEGALS are encroaching on the US Taxpayers...
You know, once upon a time, before public discourse plopped down into the crapper, you could have an interesting conversation about a story about this without trolls ruining the entire concept.