Hera Hilmar Instagram – The Whale Eye of the Storm 🐋
Iceland has just decided, by minister
@svandissvavarsdottir, to start whaling again. The quota this year is 209 fin whales.
Today the ships were allowed to leave harbour, but the elements have spoken and a storm will keep them at bay till Monday.
Right now the film industry fights the whaling industry, that is jeopardising our country’s income of at least 100-200 million dollars each year from foreign projects alone. The whaling industry, that is run at a loss each year (at least to the tax books), and at a loss for our reputation as a country.
On the 21st of August we accompanied @peggy_oki
to @svandissvavarsdottir office (Svandis was away so we met an assistant), the office of @gudlaugurthor Minister of Environment (Gudlaugur
was away so we met an assistant), to the Prime
Minister’s @katrinjakobsd office (they had closed)
and the Icelandic Parliament (where we met MP of
the Pirate party @halldoramogensen), where she handed them the 161 origami fin whale curtain in
support of the fin whales Iceland is now about to kill
(and the 161 killed last season)
When we left the parliament this whale eye in the
sky was there, looking at us.
No storm that day in sight. No wind.
Just this image in the sky.
Let’s all remember this isn’t over yet 🐋
Petitions against whaling in Iceland in my bio @herahilmar | Posted on 01/Sep/2023 21:51:12
