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The Extinction of Whales.

- killed by fishing gear
- killed by ship collision
- killed by chemical pollution
- killed by hunting
- killed by plastics
- killed by microplastics
- killed by abrupt climate change
- killed by food chain disruption

Capitalism is murdering the Ocean.
1. Ocean life is being driven to extinction by human activity

2. Human activity is political

3. Politics can't be divorced from economics, which used to be called (more accurately) Political Economy

4. The dominant political/economic system? Capitalism

'Human activity in the oceans is driving many large species toward extinction, posing a threat to the wider ocean ecosystem, according to new research..

Researchers note that climate change is not the primary driver of mass extinction in the oceans'

2016
time.com/4494839/ocean-…
Staggering.

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7 out of the 13 great whale species are endangered or vulnerable including:

the blue whale
the bajii whale
the bowhead whale
the fin whale
the sei whale
the beluga whale

most critically endangered species:

vaquita
North Atlantic Right whale
grey whale orcireland.ie/world-whale-da…
Large-bodied animals: critical to ecosystems.

'Without a dramatic shift in the business-as-usual course for marine management..the oceans will endure a mass extinction of sufficient intensity and ecological selectivity to rank among the major extinctions'science.sciencemag.org/content/353/63…
The mass extinction of life in the oceans as they absorb carbon from carbon dioxide emissions (caused by human political/economic systems) is set to occur within decades:
bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/…
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