Brian Skerry Quotes
I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.
Skerry, Brian. Ocean Soul. National Geographic, 2011.
Some of animal rights “direct action” have injured and killed humans.
There are a few conflicts between the legislation to protect the border by using vehicles and building facilities and protecting the endangered species that might be in the area. These were worked out by allowing the Border Patrol, if they thought there was a serious boarder problem, to make the decision of how to proceed but in the general cases to balance off the costs and benefits to border guarding and the endangered species and wilderness. Chaffetz was a rabid anti environment advocate who opposes almost all accommodations for endangered speices. Such extreme statements as these, produces an opposite extreme reaction on the part of some environmentalists who will make no compromise even if benign, as they believe that CHaffetz and the few others who think like he, will then gut the entire legislation as they are not acting in good faith. The result is a polarization in which the extreme’s fight it out and the reasonable middle ground is ignored.
Brian Skerry is a photographer and photojournalist specializing in marine wildlife and underwater environments. Since 1998 he has been a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine. In 2014 he was named a National Geographic Photography Fellow.
