1819 - 2019, 200 ANS DE BONHEUR ! Accompagnés de dessins du génial Eric Roland. Merci, Eric.
Voir aussi l'article de Jeff Kingston dans le South China Morning Post d'hier et actualisé aujourd'hui, qui présente la thèse selon laquelle l'initiative japonaise de quitter la Commission Baleinière Internationale et de reprendre la pêche commerciale pourrait en fin de compte tuer purement et simplement l'industrie baleinière...
Whaling has also been Japan’s diplomatic scarlet letter, damaging the nation’s international standing while alienating some of its closest allies. No other single government policy generates such international opprobrium and it is puzzling why the government harpoons its own green credentials over a marginal issue that most Japanese have long stopped caring about.
Japan’s besieged pro-whaling lobby does not represent a consensus view among Japanese, many of whom prefer watching whales to eating them.
Thus, it is possible to imagine a positive scenario where Japanese whaling will be scaled down, taxpayers’ money will not be squandered, and Japan will no longer be cast as the Voldemort of the oceans.
Jeff Kingston is director of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2180138/how-japans-return-commercial-whaling-could
