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Patrick Moore.
Patrick Moore.
Moore tells readers how things have run amok at the activist organization, claiming it has changed from one that "not only cared about the environment, but also about people" to one that has since transformed to today's radical organization "that characterizes people fundamentally as enemies of the earth." He continues:
I believe that its refusal to make demands that are scientifically based combined with a leftist, anti-American and anti-market-economy attitude has led the environmental movement into an ideological dead-end in which it finds itself today."Later in the interview Moore says that today's biggest environmental challenge facing the earth today is poverty.
Moore says he left Greenpeace because the organization opted to follow a course based on confrontation and anti-development. He also believes that the organization's popularity is because the environmental movement has indeed become a religion.Poor people today cannot afford to treat wastewater, to clean the air, to reforest, etc. Poverty is a problem for man and for the environment. Fighting poverty helps both. There's no contradiction."
Radical environmentalists he says are hypocritical and confused in that they don't understand that the gadgets that they themselves love using, like mobile phones, bicycles and rapid transport, buildings and wind turbines, come from the very things they protest. "It's an absolute dream world."
He illustrates further:
Moore thinks that that fear and guilt play a big role in the religion. "This works the best with the global warming issue."To demonstrate against fossil energies, Greenpeace attacked a Russian offshore drilling rig with a large boat equipped with diesel engines. [...] When we sailed to Alaska to protest nuclear testing, we had no atomic weapons on board. They act like their new 32 million dollar boat is powered by sails when in reality it has a 5000 horsepower diesel engine. [...] I just want to underscore what a dream world these people live in."
At the end, Moore blasts Greenpeace's opposition to approving golden rice.
The whole interview is well worth reading and it hopefully it will appear soon in English.Two million children die annually from diseases related to Vitamin A-deficiencies. If I take the precautionary principle seriously, then I can only demand that golden rice be immediately approved. If Vitamin A deficiency were a disease like malaria and someone discovered a medicine to heal the disease, it would not be long before people would use it."
Oil isn't a fossil fuel. It's the second most abundant fluid on the planet. A bucket of oil shouldn't cost a great deal more than a bucket of drinking water.
The continuing myth of the "scarcity" of this "fossil fuel" is directly responsible for a vast amount of the evil that occurs in this world.