In 1975, Greenpeace — the global environmentalist activist group — launched their successful "Save the Whales" campaign, designed to raise awareness for the world's dwindling whale population. Their goal was to ban commercial whaling worldwide, a practice that, according to the International Whaling Commission, peaked in the 1960s. Happily, their campaign was successful. In 1986, commercial whaling was indeed banned in the United States. Additionally, "Save the Whales" became a widely...