Government Spoils Resolution on Whaling
Posted by jennifer, October 21st, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Whales
The Australian government is more virtuous and extreme on the issue of whaling than your average conservation group. Read more here.
a forum for the discussion of issues concerning the natural environment
(14) (1) (2) (6) (116) (10) (3) (1) (15) (2) (1936) (1) (2) (5) (7) (4) (9) (104) (9) (483) (1) (4) (15) (3) (1) (8) (1) (1)Scientist Steve Schneider Flips Fears
On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age. Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)
Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference. Read more here. (2)
Not Evil Just Wrong
Buy the DVD by clicking on the flashing icon above. (1)
Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time … Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)
Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness. Read more here. (1)
Disclaimer: The inclusion of a blog or website in this list should not be taken as an endorsement of its contents by me.
Posted by jennifer, October 21st, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Whales
The Australian government is more virtuous and extreme on the issue of whaling than your average conservation group. Read more here.
Laila Jusnes , Secretary for the High North Alliance , has e-mailed me an article ( some years old) , from a Norwegian environmental NGO , that states that the Norwegians should not blame the whales for depletion of fish stocks. ( The whales eat much fish , but current fishing methods are the cause for overfishing)
Laila has as well posted a reply on my blog , that is very interesting and good and takes up aspects that are never mentioned in anti whaling nations .
Read more here :
http://annimal.bloggsida.se/diverse/reply-from-laila-from-the-high-north-alliance
What you do is important. How you do it is often even more important.
Get someone/business/country to the point of agreeing to a negotiated agreement. Then at the last minute one of the parties ups the ante, substantially altering the deal, gambling that the other party is in too far to walk away.
It is seldom wrong to walk away from such in-bad-faith tactics if you can. Japan and Norway acted correctly.