In the latest development in the battle to not worry about anything, a federal judge has ruled that using active sonar in areas known to be inhabited by whales is not exempt from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
President Bush had initially sought to make such activity, which has proven harmful to whales, a non-issue. The judge disagrees. And as with all things this ludicrous, it really doesn’t have to be an issue in the first place–the navy has countless options in their training when it comes to avoiding whales. One such option is low-frequency sonar scanning before their training begins, which harmlessly searches for whales in a given area. It works like this:
No whales = no problem.
It wasn’t a setback for Bush or the Navy, just to people (like Bush and the Navy) who celebrate the idea of not thinking about anything but their own agendas.
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