340That’s the number of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales that are in existence. That’s all.
Their existence is threatened by habitat destruction off the East Coast, including offshore wind farms planned to be built in their breeding and foraging areas.
Yet, the greatest threat to North Atlantic Right Whales comes from an unusual source: environmental groups including Sierra Club, Audubon Society, and National Wildlife Federation
A recent investigation found many conservation groups accept millions of dollars in donations from the offshore wind industry. In other words, they’re getting paid to ignore the plight of right whales. It’s a betrayal of their donors, their mission, and the whales.
https://www.saverightwhales.net/conflictsofinterestreporthttps://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1698723972387590361Save the Whales, Again"When the two of us were little kids in the 1970s, the environmental movement was in its infancy. Like anyone who was alive in those years, we have vivid memories of the movement’s most famous and powerful rallying cry: Save the Whales. The phrase was much more than a slogan: it was in those years that a handful of Greenpeace activists captured the world’s attention when they put their bodies between Russian harpooners and the whales they were aiming to kill. Only an animal that majestic could inspire such courage.
The global campaign to stop the whaling industry was a stunning success. Whale species that teetered on the precipice of extinction, such as the humpback, bounced back. In 1982, 25 countries signed an international treaty to ban commercial whaling. More than three times that number now adhere to the ban, and the three countries that still practice commercial whaling do so in ignominy.
But today, whales are once again under threat. Only this time, it isn’t whale hunters who are killing them. Instead, it’s the favored industry of the environmental movement itself: wind energy."
https://public.substack.com/p/save-the-whales-again
