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Bad Idea #51 "plenty of krill in the ocean" with Claire Christian
Antarctica is the least disturbed continent on Earth — and for some of the world's most powerful fishing nations, that's not a reason to protect it. It's a reason to go there next. Claire Christian, Executive Director of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, joins Mark Lynas to make the case that the bad idea is to look at the antarctica regian as a pantry, plenty of krill in the ocean, right? That idea still persists, debated in closed rooms in Hobart, and dressed up in sustainability labels.
Christian traces the arc from industrial whaling and penguin-boiling in the early 1900s — one…
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