r/pics Aug 12 '21

The majority of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is discarded fishing gear.

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u/NewtonSteinLoL Aug 12 '21

How so?

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u/drewskibfd Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21

Paul Watson, the activist that Captains the ship, has literally sunk other vessels and if I remember correctly, he may have blown one up. He's literally an ecoterrorist. I don't like whaling but all he really did was force whalers to hunt more whales because they would ruin the whale carcass.

Edit: I can't find evidence of him trying to blow up a ship. I don't know where I heard that from

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u/bookybookbook Aug 16 '21

He didn’t force anybody to hunt more whales - that is a perverse understanding of the events. The whalers and the countries that support them should have stopped this arcane and unpopular practice. Ego killed whales, not Sea Shepherd.