Every time I turn my head, I see another species threatened and for (let’s be honest) an idiotic cultural tradition or superstition.

I apologize for being so blunt. And although I constantly blog about how many endangered whales there are, here are a few (the list goes into the hundreds) examples of man’s insanity acted out on defenseless animals.

1. The elephant tusk.

Asians kill these magnificent creatures for their ivory, or hire third-world African nations to do their dirty work. That is tantamount to killing a human for the dental gold in his teeth! And the justification is as silly as, “Well, our daughter is getting married and we needed wedding rings.”

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Resources is a term used by all men on this tiny blue planet. And it’s concept is what is destroying our planet.

Really?

Well, take a look at the word – the concept – of what resources really mean. Per Encarta’s definition, resource means “ the nation’s natural, economic, or military asset enjoyed by a nation, e.g., mineral wealth, labor, capital…” The word is taken from Latin, “surgere”, literally to “rise up from below”.

If we look deeper into the actual concept of the word, however, it is a bit dark. I say that because there is nothing in its description that says “replenish” or “care for”. Understand that this word has been used for hundreds of years in the English language.

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Recently Japan News reported that the residents of Taiji will not hunt whales this year.

If you recall, Taiji was the coastal village filmed in “The Cove” documentary about the massacre of dolphins. The fact is, the village fisherman also hunt minke whales.

The rhetoric is that “local fishermen claim that the Oscar-winning 2009 U.S. documentary, which critically depicted the dolphin hunt in Taiji and was shot partly using hidden cameras, is anti-Japanese and contains factual errors.”

Earlier this year, Japanese officials were caught accepting bribes (whalemeat) under the table. Two Japanese whistleblowers who publicly exposed the corruption, were immediately imprisoned and labeled traitors to the Japanese people.

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