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Here are two perspectives to ecoterrorism.
I'm
a member of the company that supports Sea Shepard. I’m afraid I can’t tell the
name of the company, and all what I can say about it is that it’s an outdoor
brand company. It is really existing. By the way, do you know about Sea
Shepard? It’s a non-profit organization that insists on antiwhaling. They’re
acting to protect whales so we think they are a great organization and want to
support them. We are providing financial support to them so that they can take
action. However actually, to give their money is beneficial for not only Sea
Shepard but also our company. That is because Sea Shepard is such a big group
and acting extravagantly, we can be regarded as a good company that contributes
to environmental preservation if we support them. In short, we create nice
image of company that saves environment by donating and supporting Sea Shepard.
It's a wonderful thing, isn't it? Giving money to Sea Shepard results both
saving whale and making our company's name famous.
This is the second perspective.
I’m Ishikawa. I specialize in the study of Japanese whale. This time, I’m going to tell you the true aspect of Green peace because probably most of you don’t know what it is. Green peace is an environmental organization, and their main activity is to prevent whale fishing. When you first hear of the purpose of their activity, you might think it is a great group, but it’s completely wrong. Their original goal is simple, just making money. Once they say they’re against whale fishing, people all over the world want to support their activity, and donate money to them. It is said that an annual budget of Green peace is about 28.3billlion yen. As you know, these funds are from the people who want to support Green peace’s activity to preserve environment. Then, what do they do with these funds? They distribute their brave his is the action that confronts whaling ships in the Atrantic Ocean through the Internet. However, what they are really doing is terrible - destroy whaling ships, steal items of ships, injure crews and so on. They just perform and appeal to their supporter that they are brave trying to save the earth to make money. If they really want to save the earth, they should stop their actions right now and start useful action for the earth.
The first perspective that you've written about, a company that sponsors Sea Shepherd, is especially interesting. I wonder if Sea Shepherd has corporate sponsors. Some of its methods are so controversial, even in the States, that I think most companies would be cautious about supporting them. It would be out of the question for any Japanese company to support them, although if Animal Planet is shown in Japan, that would be indirectly supporting them.
返信削除The second perspective sounds suspiciously like a "manufactured" perspective that would be created as a sort of PR by the Japanese Ministry of Fisheries. If you saw the Matt Damon film, "Promised Land," you know that companies also try to manufacture controversies to their advantage. Unfortunately, it's easy to do this on the Internet because Web postings are so anonymous.
The perspective on Greenpeace sounds rather outdated because I don't think they send small Zodiac boats out to antagonize whalers anymore. They adopted other methods and they don't think what Sea Shepherd is doing is productive. But, they certainly still oppose whaling, as one of many environmental issues that they concentrate on.