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Ruphus -> RE: Put it in the MW-oven (Jul. 10 2014 9:55:50)
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Congrats, Andy!
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Stephen, neglection of undesired truth about an adored personality who actually was a faker, environmental vandal, Nazi entourage and antisemit does not suit well to profane facts.
( Vichy collaborate Cousteau about diffculties in 1941 to find housing in Bordeaux with Jewish fugitives cramped in that city: "There will not be decent apartment until all those ignoble kikes burdening us are kicked out".)
And bringing forward scuba diving with an engineer, state budget and nothing else to do: What a big deal, to which by now probably noone else including marines would had come to.
For his environmental engagement with ill-treatment and perishing of dolphins, killer whales and fish, of a same pioneering quality like with triggering the big shark hunt, is his contract with Darcy Exploration Company and his investigations for the oil industry´s sea mining.
( Cousteau bragging in 1954, before environmentalism became chic: “We were the people who discovered oil in the Gulf! It was us who made the emirate of Abu Dhabi rich!”)
One may possibly forgive his cruel and polluting takes on nature, which at his time were just common sense. One might theoretically even connive his opportunism with the German Nazis and Vichy regime for a hypothetical lack of judge and reason / falling for mass manipulation.
But publicly defaming a species as vicious ( or unholy) monster like he did to sharks ( or comparably clerics historically did to beings like cats, snakes, goats, dogs or redheaded widows) results into witch hunting which any irresponsible author, even yet the least educated, should be in a position to foresee.
Too much wicked policy for Cousteau´s personal benefit to be considered mistaking.
Less even mistaking by man of honor.
Ruphus
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