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> Sonar is a likely cause for whales beaching themselves While I join the outrage, evidence of whale beachings predate the development of sonar by some 14K yea
by Maursault 4y ago
> Sonar is a likely cause for whales beaching themselves
While I join the outrage, evidence of whale beachings predate the development of sonar by some 14K years.
- iancmceachern 4y agoAnd evidence of bison killings predate bison being nearly killed off. It's more about sonar causing more whales to beach themselves, not that it didn't happen ever in nature, but that our actions cause it to happen way too often. This is a weird argument.
- Maursault 4y agoIt was not an argument, thus the qualifying first 5 words of my comment. I hate sonar, in anger accept that it beaches whales, but acknowledge that whale beachings predate sonar.
- pvaldes 4y agoAs it happens with us, whales can die by several different reasons.
- serf 4y agothe earth makes all sorts of horrible noises across the spectrum. I think that it's unfair to use that as a defense of sonar unless you're certain that the number hasn't been trending upwards since the beginning of sonar usage. if whale navigation is somehow affected by strange very high or very low noises it's not outside the realm of possibility that there have been plenty of whales beached simply due to tectonic/planetary movement inducing confusion.
- Maursault 4y agoYou're preaching to the choir. I think there should be a century-long moratorium on all commercial, industrial and military activity in the oceans.
- david38 4y agoIt’s a cause. Likewise, people have been dying long before the development of guns.