In an earlier blog I said some positive things about Gov. Jerry Brown. If you wish to deny that Democrats can ever do anything reasonable, read no further.
In the early 70s when I was a board member of the Point Foundation, I participated in what was then a very hot environmental issue: the anti-whaling movement.
We gave money to Joan McIntyre who harnessed kindergarden kids to send nasty letters to the Emperor of Japan and many other obscene environmental actions.
As I followed the anti-whaling movement I became alarmed at the moral indignities that were the tools of the activists. There was clearly more to the issue than saving the whales.
Because of my own culpability, I looked more deeply into the subject. I promptly found that all venom was being directed at Japan, while Russia and several Scandinavian countries harvested more whales than Japan. Further, Japan was the driving force in organizing the effort to control worldwide whaling because the United States, up until 1962 in Sausalito, was genuinely depleting world whale resources with millions of whale killings and discarding the meat.
Looking at data I found that only a few species of whale were close to a dangerous depletion rate at that time. Several main species numbered over a half million population with less than 2000 males being caught for food.
To my eyes, the anti-whaling movement was wildly exaggerated on the issue of whale survival and was predominantly anti-Japanese.
I wrote a strong article with all the facts for the Co-Evolution Quarterly.
The next time I saw Jerry Brown, who was governor by then, I gave him the article and explained the issue.
Jerry invited all of the anti-whaling leaders into his governor's office and presented them with my article. He demanded they explain their behavior.
They couldn't and at that point the anti-whaling movement became a smaller and less effective movement in America.
Thanks Jerry.
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