As long as America pursues a reckless doctrine of “all war all the time,” everyone and everything suffers: you, me, the enviroment, and all living things.
                                                                                      Richard Oshen

SAVE THE WHALES!

US Navy ship background. Orca whales foreground. (Photo: Kenneth Balcomb / Center for Whale Research)

Southern California coastal waters are home to at least 37 species of marine mammals,including pygmy sperm whales, coastal bottlenose dolphins and endangered blue whales.*

They deserve to be protected against the Navy’s sonar that produces piercing underwater sounds 2,000 times louder than a jet engine. Scientists say sonar use can cause hearing loss, cranial bleeding, behavioral modifications and mass strandings.  (source: Truthout)

Protecting Whales is absolutely what the California Coastal Commission ought to be doing.

This is what PROTECTING THE COAST means to most people - You know, looking after our beaches,  ocean, animals, fish and flora that live in the sea and going up to 1,000 yards inland like the people originally intended. 

 

SINS OF COMMISSION discovered the coastal commission caprisiously uses the term, “Protecting the Coast”, as its calling-card to grab land 5 miles away.  Going after homeowners who paint homes a particular color or decide to build a Victorian style house may go against someone’s personal  aesthetics, but to save the coast from Victorian homes, is not saving nor protecting the coast as it was originally defined in the coastal act.  Preventing some one from clearing dirt that falls on a driveway, without a permit or using a weed wacker,  would be a stretch too. 

 

 

 

*guardian.co.uk, Wednesday October 8 2008 21.45 BST

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