Title

Cultural whaling, commodification, and culture change

Authors

Authors

R. Hawkins

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Environ. Ethics

Keywords

Ethics; Environmental Studies

Abstract

Whaling is back on the international stage as pro-whaling interests push to reopen commercial whaling by overturning the moratorium imposed in 1986. Proponents of ending the ban are using two strategies: (1) appealing to public sentiment that supports indigenous subsistence whaling by attempting to cloak commercial whaling in the same guise and (2) maintaining that reopening commercial whaling is the "scientific" option. I reject both ploys, and instead shift the focus for global debate to scrutinizing the industrial economic model that Western culture is currently imposing on the rest of the world, a model which ultimately reduces all life forms to mere commodities for the marketplace.

Journal Title

Environmental Ethics

Volume

23

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Document Type

Editorial Material

Language

English

First Page

287

Last Page

306

WOS Identifier

WOS:000170917700005

ISSN

0163-4275

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