One for the road?

In a move reminiscent of the worst kind of environmental terrorism or in other words a blatant disregard for the natural environment (essentially "giving the finger" to the international community) Japan has restarted whaling after 30 years, this is against all scientific and ethical consensus elsewhere on this (shared) planet. According to commentators in the know this is a populist move made by a weak politician looking to buy votes from the ignorant and ill-informed among their population; so I guess you could argue that Japan is simply catching up with the rest of us over here in the UK (Brexit), USA (Trump), Russian (Putin) and so on, the political class milking the ignorant seems to be de-rigeur these days. Watching populist politicians is a sport like watching very drunk people at the bar arguing with a hesitant barman that they should be able free to drink more alcohol. We annihilated whale populations to the brink of extinction and we continue to destroy their environment and kill them indirectly with plastic pollution and global warming, now Japan is arguing that they should still be free to kill "one or two for the road".. 

Japan is not the only country claiming that killing whales is "part of their culture", Norway and Iceland have similar "fuck-you" attitudes to whaling, my view is that if your culture insists that you should be free to kill other sentient beings (when there are plenty of alternative sources of protein) to the point of extinction then, I'm sorry, but your culture sucks!