Comment of the day in the cited article:
Why has no one suggested the obvious solution? Build a wall between us and the oceans and make the whales pay for it. We've protected them long enough; time for them to pull their share.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
