‘Whales and dolphins at risk from new ferry route between Spain and Morocco’
28th October 2010
Well, perhaps; so what? Pedestrians are ‘at risk’ whenever a new road is built; we don’t avoid building new roads because of that.
A new ferry route across the Strait of Gibraltar is threatening the largest concentration of whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean, environmentalists have warned.
The correct term for these people is not ‘environmentalist’ but rather ‘anti-humanist’–they give every other species priority over their own. You won’t see any animals, for example, doing stupid stuff like that. Animals are smarter than environmentalists.
“There is an exclusion zone that is ignored already and now they are going to create a new route that slices it in two,” Pilar Marcos, head of Greenpeace Spain’s coastal campaign, told Spanish newspaper El Pais.
What ‘exclusion zone’? The one that Greenpeace would like to pretend exists where they want it to?
Instead it will urge freighters sto reduce their speed during the crossing to 13 knots and post lookouts on deck to “avoid collisions with cetaceans”.
Sure, whales that can’t be bothered to get out of the way are an adequate reason to creep across the ocean. Hey, guys, the point of going from point A to point B is to get there in as little time as possible; this isn’t a senior-citizen Golden Years cruise. Thirteen knots might have been hot stuff when sails were in vogue but I’ve ridden bicycles that go faster.
“In 2002 we saw one close up. A freighter passed by our side and ran into a sperm whale, which was left expelling jets of blood,” said Renaud de Stephanis, president of CIRCE.
It’s not as if these were stealth watercraft. Whales that are too stupid to get out of the way will die and not reproduce; eventually you have a whale population that knows enough to avoid ships. That’s called ‘evolution’, and all the cool species are doing it. (For all their supposed fondness for nature, these ‘environmentalists’ seem remarkably clueless as to how it works.)