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Extra: A Modern Whaler Speaks Up

Freakonomics Radio

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The Protest by Environmental Activists

Do you think the Save the Whales movement that started in the 1970s has gone too far? The entire commercial whaling industry kills only about a thousand whales a year. Hundreds of thousands of whales are dying every year from plastic pollution and noise pollution, Bjorn says. But it seems that most of the protest by environmental activists is directed at you at the commercial whalers. Why do you think that is? It's a human's bad conscious due to environmental stuff.

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