Jean-Michel Cousteau
(1938-)

French Environmentalist, Explorer

birthdate: May 6
birthplace:
Toulon, France

QUOTES

Today, after more than three decades of experience with marine mammals in captivity, we DO know better. Yet we continue to catch them, confine them, and display them for profit.

To really understand dolphins, one must study them on their own terms. For them, the sea is a realm whose vast spaces are defined acoustically. Cetaceans communicate over hundreds of miles, making theirs a truly global society. Surrounded by this universal conductor of communication, marine mammals develop unusually strong bonds to one another.

Aquariums, particularly marine mammal circus acts, are bound to disappear as the public is educated and revolts against it.

"Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others."

 

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