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Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, the featured speaker at Harvard's 1992 Commencement exercises, has come under fire for her country's open defiance of a recent international ban on all commercial whaling...
...champion, the most likely candidates have gone AWOL. Vice President Al Gore, the author of Earth in the Balance, has strayed to other issues as he tries to keep up with Hillary and the pack of FOBs in the hyperactive Clinton Administration. Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland devoted much of the 1980s to helping develop a global ecological agenda, but her reputation has plummeted since Norway resumed commercial whaling in defiance of an international...
...rules for now, but has lobbied the IWC to allow limited whaling. All three nations argue that the current policy is governed by emotion, not rational science. They contend that a careful harvest of relatively plentiful species like the minke is harmless. Says Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland: "We cannot allow uninformed sentiment to decide on the controlled use of our natural resources...
Unlike many ecological debates, the controversy over whether to save the whales -- or even what that means -- does not divide into neat ideological camps. Many whalers agree that some species need saving; many environmentalists -- including Brundtland, considered one of the world's most conservation-conscious leaders -- think that some carefully regulated whaling is acceptable. Argues Heidi Sorensen, head of the Norwegian environmental organization Nature and Youth: "We love the minke whale -- in the same way that we love the reindeer and the elk. These are animals that are not threatened with extinction and that we hunt...
Last year's Commencement speaker, Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, was a pro-abortion activist whose extreme views were offensive to many Harvard students, but we on the Right were mature enough not even to consider shouting her down...