“Those ‘ships’ that approached the South American continent from Europe in the 1500s were not boats. They were … something else. A traveling city, organized, primarily, as a weapon. A swarm-mode of humanity that boded ill for all to whom it did not, explicitly, bode well. There are two modern variants: the military vessel/submarine (a single one of these could destroy life on Earth forever), and ‘the cruise ship’.

But over the past 50 years, a new phenomenon has been emerging. We might call it ‘the Captain Nemo Gambit’. This is the opposite of those phenomenon. It is a community of mutually active intelligent agents. And they attack and intervene in the deadly actions of the other kind. So far, only in the domain of ‘poaching’-like behaviors. But we may dream that one day, we may invent and become the opposite of ‘an omnicidal flotilla’ that attacks itself and everything that moves. And, awakening together, we may decide that those other “vessels” were not a dream at all, but a living nightmare.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is the modern child of this possibility, and we must not merely support such endeavors… we must discover, invent, learn and become them.”