#Hashtag: Whaling and Life in the Death Zone

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Last Friday, June 19, the International Whaling Commission released its newest report of the scientific committee’s annual meeting. In it, the committee for the third time in 15 months concluded that there is still no justification for the resumption of Japanese whaling practices.

The assertion by Japan is that the whaling’s purpose is for scientific research.

There has been significant backlash to this assertion by both the scientific community and general public.


https://twitter.com/GrrlScientist/status/613345868968820737

The roar of outrage is so large it is not limited to just Japan.

But there are also good ecological developments out there in the world as well. Germany recently announced developmental plans for former Iron Curtain military bases.

The area, the former “Death Zone” is being re-purposed for wildlife.

Usually life’s great metaphors are hard to find and unravel, but here we have a beautiful and obvious example of life from death, and humanity’s redemption.

Life is flourishing in the death zone.

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Jonathan Greig
Hi, I’m Jonathan. I graduate this December, majoring in Anthropology, with minors in Creative Writing and Political Science. After that … we’ll see. Maybe graduate school in environmental anthropology. Maybe I’ll finally pursue my old childhood dream of becoming an infomercial host. It’s up in the air. Some of my interests and hobbies include devout sports fanaticism, religious study, and composing country songs that serve to explain the unearthly amount of disdain I have for country music. My band’s called Catfish Hurricane, you should check us out. Well, actually, you shouldn’t. I love writing, which is how I accidentally stumbled into this job. This stumbling into good things is my plan for life in general.