I’ve just read a podcast about listening to whales (spoiler alert, AI hasn’t cracked this yet) and this made me think about how brief human perspectives are.

“But my partner went out—she was this invited artist—on a reconstructed whaling ship, a former whaling ship that had been rebuilt, and went on this little voyage just along the sort of coast there between Boston and New Bedford and a couple of other towns, I think. And at some point she realized that there were whales out there and some of those whales would’ve been old enough to remember when that whaling ship was actually out there whaling, right? Which no living humans did. The ship had last sailed, like before—as a whaling ship—before anyone living was around, anyone living now was around.”

I wonder how long it will take to stop whale slaughtering and then how long it will take until there are no whales that can remember seeing whale slaughtering?

The Ethics of Listening to Whales – A Conversation with James Bridle, Rebecca Giggs, César Rodríguez-Garavito and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee