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[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Two hundred million years ago during the Triassic period, the world changed dramatically. Prior to the Triassic, the landscape was a somber and endless panorama of green and brown, of plants that struggled to survive and...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1691013008333{background-color: #f9ecc5 !important;}"][vc_column_text]Traveling to the Danish Faroe Islands is like a short vacation in an asylum for the criminally insane. Not that this is unexpected considering the...
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]A Similar Fate May Be Coming to a Town Near You! I have fond memories of Lahaina. I first visited the town in 1976 when I was First Officer on Greenpeace VII. We were warmly received and the people of Lahaina generously...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Defending Whales and Dolphins | A Life's Passion All my life I have had to listen to critics telling me that what I am doing is foolhardy, counterproductive, impossible, or reckless. It has never bothered me. What people...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]The decision to end whaling in Iceland came about because of the incredible efforts by so many people for so many years. Many organizations in Iceland and around the world have contributed to this special day. The...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Full disclosure: I am a real, legitimate pirate and quite proud of it. My legitimacy as a pirate was confirmed in 2014 by the 9th U.S. Circuit Federal Court Judge Alex Kozinski, who wrote in his verdict that my actions in...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]It has been 10 years since I have commanded the helm of a ship. That was in 2013, in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary with Operation Zero Tolerance, when we prevented the Japanese whaling fleet from killing 90% of its...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Since 1975, I have been fascinated by the idea that humans possibly had aquatic roots. A few decades ago, I wrote an article for Ocean Realm magazine entitled The Aquatic Ape, which invited some fierce criticism from a...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]The greatest threat to the survival of humanity is anthropocentrism, the worldview that human beings are dominant over all other species — more important than all other species — and that all of creation came into being...
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1671468962118{background-color: #1e73be !important;}"][vc_column width="4/5"][vc_column_text] In 1971, I set out on a stormy November cruise from Vancouver, northward to a remote barren island called Amchitka in the Alaskan Aleutian...