I'm glad you mentioned the imminent threat to the killer whales again. I'm not going to disagree that there is an issue with the population of the southern resident killer whales, but your use of the word “imminent” suggests that if we don't do something absolutely immediately, the killer whales will be extinct.
However, every report I see seems to suggest that there is a 25% to 50% chance of the population being extirpated within the next 100 years, and that the current population of 76 southern resident killer whales is not the all-time low. As a matter of fact, the traditional population of the whales is somewhere between 70 and 90 whales.
I'm not going to argue the conditions of the pods, and I'm not going to argue about their health and well-being. I'm not going to argue any of those things with you, but I'm just wondering about the use of the word “imminent” when the scientific community seems to suggest that the actual extirpation threat is less than 50% in the next 100 years based on current management strategies.