Are Humans Talking to Whales?

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The Earth has the largest brains known up in the universe talking to each other right now under the ice in the Arctic Circle. They've had self-awareness and advanced cognitions and huge brains long before we did. And here we are looking for fossil bacteria on other planets while turning these enormous communicative brains, yeah, effectively into dog food. We can financialize them. For critters with a slow reproductive rate, it can actually make financial sense to wipe them out, bank the money, rather than waiting for them to reproduce more.

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On this episode, Nate is joined by Eco-interventionist and long time friend DJ White. DJ is not necessarily a household name, but has been instrumental in successful environmental interventions - primarily for the oceans - for the last four decades. The list of his behind-the-scenes accomplishments is long, but today he joins Nate to describe how to be effective in change-making and outline ways that current activist efforts could be improved. He also shares his own profound experiences with some of Earth’s most intelligent creatures and how these cetacean friends shaped his life’s work.

About DJ White:

DJ White is a co-founder of Greenpeace International and founder of EarthTrust. He has played a leading role in protecting dolphins, whales, sea turtles, and countless other marine animals, including being the driving force behind the transition to more dolphin-friendly tuna, stopping widespread use of ocean drift nets in the 1980s, successfully stopping a national dolphin drive kill, and breaking the deadlock in capping the Kuwait oil fires.

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