One thing that’s striking about all of this
Is that they keep denying offshore wind permits, which are a critical solution to climate change, because they falsely claim it’s bad for whales
But then they keep doing things that actually will kill whales
The context of this is that Trump just opened up the three remaining marine national monuments to destructive industrial fishing.
The monuments recognize the Indigenous Pacific voyaging legacy. They also support endangered marine wildlife and protect whales, sea turtles, and seabirds.
Look, there‘s a lot of ways to learn how to be a person in the world. Sometimes it’s literature. Sometimes it’s a student-run black box theater. Sometimes it’s work. Sometimes it’s cows.
I'll end this thread the same way Alan ended his testimony. “Future generations will not judge us by how many fish we caught in the last wild places of the Pacific. They will judge us by whether we had the wisdom and foresight to protect them."