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.
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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.