All about the disruption of an American-led industry – and the creative destruction thereof:

1. History of whaling


2. Decline of the US whaling industry (causes and ramifications for jobs, politics, economics, and social stability)


3. Rise of commercial whaling regulation and evasion


4. US transition from whaling to other forms of energy and byproducts (economic benefits, detriments, and innovations)


5. Standard Oil

See also:🧵https://x.com/AnthPB/status/1852504007341670409

This podcast is AI-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

• “A Compact With the Whales”: New Bedford, the American Civil War, and a Changing Industry (Mello, 2020.05.01)


• Anti-whaling (Wikipedia, 2024.10.29)


• Catches taken under Objection since 1985 ban (International Whaling Commission, 2023)


• Catches total since 1985 ban (International Whaling Commission, 2023)


• Climate-driven environmental changes around 8,200 years ago favoured increases in cetacean strandings and Mediterranean hunter-gatherers exploited them (Mannino et al, 2015.11.17)


• Estimating the Economic Value of Narwhal and Beluga Hunts in Hudson Bay, Nunavut (Hoover et al, 2012)


• From Old Dartmouth to New Bedford, Whaling Metropolis of the World (Old Dartmouth Historical Society (2008.12.14)


• Global whaling peaked in the 1960s (Our World in Data, 2022.11.30)


• Prehistoric Inuit whalers affected Arctic freshwater ecosystems (Douglas/Smol/Savelle/Blais, 2023.12.09)


• Productivity and the decline of American sperm whaling (Shuster)


• Report of the 65th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC, 2014)


• Standard Oil (Wikipedia, 2024.10.28)


• The Impact of Whaling on the Ocean Carbon Cycle: Why Bigger Was Better (Pershing et al, 2010.08.26)


• The Subtle Changes that Destroyed the Whaling Industry (YouTube, Learn Something New, 2023.06.01)


• The whale oil myth surfaces again (Environmental History, 2022.02.23)


• The “Whale Oil Myth” (PBS News, 2008.08.20)


• Too Much Is Never Enough: The Cautionary Tale of Soviet Illegal Whaling (Ivashchenko/Clapham)


• Whale Hunting Still Exists in 3 Countries, but It Is Declining (Sentient Media, 2023.09.01)


• Whale Population Estimates (International Whaling Commission, 2022)


• Whale oil history (Pees, 2004)


• Whaling (Wikipedia, 2024.10.26)


• Whaling in the United States (Wikipedia, 2024.10.29)


• Why Petroleum Did Not Save the Whales (York, 2017.10.25)

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