Knowledge+Saturation

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 * Comments**


 * Zihan**: What I think about the movie, i think the movie was pretty good, it showed people that the whales are being hunted by Norway and the Japanese and that we should stop them before the whale extinct.


 * Zach** Well I found the movie to be quite thought provoking, it showed the whales in their natural habitats, and gave you a feeling of pity that they had to be driven out of them or killed my whalers.

__**Whaling**__

Whaling is the hunting of whales for their blubber, meat or just as a sport. It can be dated back as far as 6000 BC, and has been discussed numerous times whether it should be made illegal, as the whale population is diminishing due to whaling. Greenpeace and many other environmental groups claim that the guise of whaling for scientific research is simply a cover-up for commercial whaling, which is banned. Norway and Japan are the biggest contributors to whale hunting, though many other countries take part in the sickening sport. [] Environmental Groups such as Greenpeace are trying their hardest to save the whales from extinction.

Whale oil is little used today and modern commercial whaling is for food. The primary species hunted are the Common Minke Whale and Antarctic Minke Whale, two of the smallest species of baleen whales. Recent scientific surveys estimate a population of 103,000 in the northeast Atlantic and 665,074 around Antarctica.

International cooperation on whaling regulation began in 1931 and begun in the signing of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling in 1946, whose aim is to provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the comercial whaling and the orderly development of the whaling industry. The IWC was set up under the terms of the ICRW for the purpose of making decisions on quota levels and other relevant matters based on the findings of its Scientific Committee. Countries which are not members of IWC are not bound by its regulations and conduct their own management programs.


 * __General Knowledge__

Zach** The world's resources are slowly being used up by humans for their own needs they have no relevance to survival. Non-renewable resources such as oil, coal and wood are being used to manufacture many things that aren't necessary for the well being of the human race, which are slowly eating up the materials needed to produce needed items. The factories that produce these items, along with a lot of other things are producing greenhouse gases, which are reflected back onto the earth by the atmosphere, creating global warming.

**Zihan** The thing I know about sustainability are that non-sustainable stuff are not renewable mean it can't be remade, and if we still use it we will have no more and sustainable stuff can be re-made but if you don't regrow it like trees it'll be non-sustainable.

__**Thoughts on the Lorax movie**__


 * Zach** um i think what the movie was saying was that if humans greedily continue to waste resources for their own selfish benefits, then the consequences would be horrible. However, while many people, indicated by the Lorax are trying to stop the end of a resourceful world, many others simply are not listening and continue to waste away the important, non renewable things that they think will last forever. Also was entertaining in a depressing sort of way. :\