Enormous endangered Fin whale washes up on Cornwall beach

“Given the widespread use of sonar by the defence industry, you might expect the MoD to put a tiny proportion of its huge budget world-wide, into the environmental impacts of its technology. Isn't it amazing how aggressive acts by combatants causing a multitude of deaths and widespread destruction of property, is somehow subsumed in a prevailing story of "victory", "heroism" and "freedom", hardly recognisable in the chaos and misery on the ground? Even less reported and of concern, are the environmental effects of war and the preparation for it. What were the long term effects of the poison gas and explosions (including over two thousand nuclear ones) of two world wars and about ninety others in the Twentieth Century? What were the oceanic effects of testing on Bikini island in the Pacific? We know that leukaemia rates in children peaked from atmospheric testing but little is known about longer term effects on humans and the rest of the creation. Agent Orange, depleted uranium, contamination by lead, the disposal of toxic materials in the sea, war-caused oil pollution in the gulf and elsewhere, depletion and killing of endangered species and eco-systems from conflict, and so on. Humans have a duty to the rest of the world's animal and plant inhabitants, to devote at least some of its intelligence to understanding and quantifying its impact”

“A sad end to a majestic creature. What research if any, has been done on the effect of human sonar on these sensitive mammals? If not, why not?”

“I'd say it's more than endangered!”