Dear friend and manager of a 19th century industrial whale slaughterhouse.
First of all, I hope you are well and happy and your family is likewise well and happy.
This may seem like the most radical idea and message, which I share to you without personal, political or religious bias and based on the most rational and reasonable evidence.
I kindly ask you to consider every word - because this message is from the future, 200 years in the future, where your actions are still felt but since made an illegal act.
You are actively and unknowingly participating in a major moral catastrophe of your time.
The animals you hunt and slaughter share the same joys, feelings and emotions you share with your own family. This means they also share the same pains, loss and suffering you share each time you initiate your practice.
We know this because in my time we have audio or sound technology that is capable of hearing and listening to their conversations known as Echolocation. We have been able to play their form of communication and engage in conversation proving non-human intelligence. We have been able to observe communication between groups of these animals over very close and very vast distances, proving social bonds, play, hierarchy and interconnectedness. To your ears it would sound much like music, and not only that, the animals have been singing like this for over 50 million years.
We know this because of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Which, although a new fringe idea for you, is in my time a proven science used to explain the entire natural world that you, I and all life is connected via a chain and process of natural selection, including the point at which a species goes extinct and dyes out forever.
We know this because in my time we have a record of your industry's total impact on the animal population you hunt which reduces the species by 98.5% and consequently severely impacts the rest of the ocean food chain right down to the smallest organisms and creatures. The animals you hunt and slaughter feed on these organisms which in turn changes the oxygen, carbon and nutrient levels in the entire ocean significantly impacting or denying the existence of trillions of other animals that would have lived had the animals been able to maintain their numbers to much healthier levels.
Whilst today you are partaking in proven unimaginable levels of pain and suffering through your practice, you have the capacity to recognise it, to feel the same compassion you feel to your family as to the animals, to stop, to research, to plan a different course of action for the future. A future where the valuable ocean knowledge and experience you have acquired can be put to other purposes such as sourcing alternative fuels or educating others about the suffering of these incredible animals.
This letter is both a warning and an opportunity - choose wisely.
Dear friend and manager of a 19th century industrial whale slaughterhouse.
First of all, I hope you are well and happy and your family is likewise well and happy.
This may seem like the most radical idea and message, which I share to you without personal, political or religious bias and based on the most rational and reasonable evidence.
I kindly ask you to consider every word - because this message is from the future, 200 years in the future, where your actions are still felt but since made an illegal act.
You are actively and unknowingly participating in a major moral catastrophe of your time.
The animals you hunt and slaughter share the same joys, feelings and emotions you share with your own family. This means they also share the same pains, loss and suffering you share each time you initiate your practice.
We know this because in my time we have audio or sound technology that is capable of hearing and listening to their conversations known as Echolocation. We have been able to play their form of communication and engage in conversation proving non-human intelligence. We have been able to observe communication between groups of these animals over very close and very vast distances, proving social bonds, play, hierarchy and interconnectedness. To your ears it would sound much like music, and not only that, the animals have been singing like this for over 50 million years.
We know this because of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Which, although a new fringe idea for you, is in my time a proven science used to explain the entire natural world that you, I and all life is connected via a chain and process of natural selection, including the point at which a species goes extinct and dyes out forever.
We know this because in my time we have a record of your industry's total impact on the animal population you hunt which reduces the species by 98.5% and consequently severely impacts the rest of the ocean food chain right down to the smallest organisms and creatures. The animals you hunt and slaughter feed on these organisms which in turn changes the oxygen, carbon and nutrient levels in the entire ocean significantly impacting or denying the existence of trillions of other animals that would have lived had the animals been able to maintain their numbers to much healthier levels.
Whilst today you are partaking in proven unimaginable levels of pain and suffering through your practice, you have the capacity to recognise it, to feel the same compassion you feel to your family as to the animals, to stop, to research, to plan a different course of action for the future. A future where the valuable ocean knowledge and experience you have acquired can be put to other purposes such as sourcing alternative fuels or educating others about the suffering of these incredible animals.
This letter is both a warning and an opportunity - choose wisely.
Yours sincerely
John