“First, there were whales. Then, there were ships that attacked whales. These became floating factories. Then, finally, out of all the ships on the sea, one ship arose that attacked whaling ships. That ship was sunk off the coast of New Zealand by a mercenary group funded by the French government.

Now, there are two or three ships that harass whaling ships.

But as you can see, the problem isn’t ships. It’s human ideas that become embodied in mechanized processing techniques that involve horrific cruelty and egregious ignorance. And you might think, well, it’s just a few whales. You’d be wrong in that thinking for a number of reasons. The first is that your own health and intelligence depend upon those whale populations in ways your species remains too primitive to conceive of.

The second is that after the whales comes you.”

— an anonymous informant