The real reason we should care about the whales #startrek
What would happen to us if politicians decide to lift whaling sanctions in this weeks talks?
A lack of whales could lead to some bad scenarios. One recent study suggests whale poo is crucial to slowing down global warming, however another threat to our environment looms; the terrestrial beings who communicate with Earth’s whales. If the whales all die and that communication ceases, these aliens may come looking for their fat friends… and destroy our planet in the process.
Leonard Nimoy understood this threat to our existence and made a documentary about it in 1986. In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Captain Kirk manages to to travel back in time, meet the mum from 7th Heaven and beam some whales to the future thus stopping our otherwise inevitable annihilation:
Some people say Captain Kirk is not a real hero, but an aging man with a talent for beat poetry. If these accusations are true then who will save the whales from their hunters?
That’s the job of the politicians we elect and we can not let them decide that commercial whaling is ok.
