00:00Whale song was discovered essentially by the US military.
00:07The guy who was in charge of this program, he kept these songs under wraps for many years
00:12because he knew quite clearly that the information could be misused by commercial whale hunters.
00:20And in the end, he chose instead to give all of the recordings to a biologist
00:26who not only researched them but turned them into an album about whale song.
00:31And this became, I think, one of the most sold music albums ever
00:37and in turn galvanized efforts across the globe to stop whale hunting.
00:42When we say we save the whales, who did we save them from?
00:47Were aliens coming to invade whales?
00:49So first of all, we caused so many species to go extinct.
00:52We hunt them down, we wipe them off forever from the face of the planet
00:56and then we congratulate ourselves on doing a little bit for one particular species
01:02that was going endangered or near extinct because of us.
01:06We call it hope.
01:08Yes, there is a possibility that we withdraw from how we have been and what we have been doing
01:14and that withdrawal might actually save the planet.
01:17No species has to do anything extra to save the planet.
01:20The planet has always been alright.
01:22It's the human being that's the curse of the planet.
01:25Yes, change is possible but change has to begin here.
01:28Without the change beginning here, any kind of outer change is just eyewash.
01:33What do we do?
01:36We have caught in the word of moon.
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