Safe, for Now
Santiago, Chile -- June 25, 2008: Consensus is not what the International Whaling Commission (IWC) usually forges. Pro- and anti-whaling nations are divided by plenty of deep blue water over whether whales should be hunted or not. But at the organisation’s annual meeting this week in Santiago, Chile’s capital, consensus is what the participants have decided to try for. On Tuesday June 24th the consensus-building began: the participants agreed that they would put off making any big decisions until next year’s meeting in Madeira.
The Economist
