Extract:
"We face what I call the conservationist fallacy in much of our debate between animal welfare people and environmentalists. Environmentalists as well as scientists have been afraid to admit to having emotions or sentiments. There has been too much diversion of activity towards the idea of maintaining simple diversity in the living systems of the planet. This can too easily move into saving endangered species and not caring for the Minke whales, the Harp seals, or the East African mammals. They are in their hundreds of thousands or millions. Animals have to be cared for because they are important in the world, not just because they are being driven to extinction. I get very impatient when I hear arguments about whether the whales are going to extinction, with the implication that, if you say 'no they aren't', then to hell with them."
"If we .... can hold the dam, as it were, for a few more years, that will give us time to assemble the ethical arguments against whaling, and to get them diffused further in the world. Many people say generally that "there should be no whaling for ethical reasons", but when you try to pin them down to a formulation of those ethics, you find it exceedingly difficult and, I am afraid to say, probably unconvincing to most people of the nations of the world."