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Originally Posted by MMM
Explain how many whales are being killed now per year, and explain how many whales would be killed per year by this new proposal and then explain why less is better than more.
I am only going off of the link you provided.
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Most or all environmentalists don't believe that this will actually reduce the number of whales killed. If they did, they'd probably support it. And for that matter, Japan and the other countries would probably not support it if it drastically reduced the number of whales they could catch, yet they are pushing for this ban to be lifted. So I think the reduction is mostly just rhetoric, but we'd have to wait and see what the result is if it passes.
For one thing, it doesn't seem to outlaw killing whales for scientific research, which is what the countries have been doing. It simply legalizes commercial killing again.