Guest guest Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Eco-Judas Moore now Shilling for Nukes. Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:46:43 -0800 Eco-Judas Moore now Shilling for Nukes. By Captain Paul Watson Patrick Moore has parlayed his former status of President of Greenpeace Canada into a very profitable business. His company Green Spirit was set up to justify pretty much anyone who wishes to make a buck off of destroying habitat and species. He has championed salmon farmers, clear cut loggers, miners, landfills, the chlorine industry, plastics, and defended the move to destroy the Endangered Species Act in the United States. The most right wing anti-environmentalist in the United States Congress Richard Pombo ® California has lauded Patrick as the " only real environmentalist. " That is because Moore calls himself an environmentalist yet defends every rancher, logger, farmer, developer and industrialist who needs his support to justify their efforts to destroy eco-systems. Patrick's argument is always the same. " Hey, I'm a co-founder of Greenpeace and the former President of Greenpeace Canada and I think (fill in the blank) is swell. This time around he thinks nuclear power is swell and he is selling it as a solution to global warming. Moore recently wrote that " investing in a nuclear energy infrastructure is the only realistic means of reducing fossil fuel emissions while meeting our growing energy demands. " He actually cites the real problem. Growing energy demands and this is the result of growing populations and growing demands on resources. It is escalating human populations and the emergence of growing material wealth in former underdeveloped nations that is fueling these demands. More people and more wealth translates into more energy consumption. Nuclear power will not prevent coal, oil and gas from being utilized. It will just make it cheaper. Moore is not pushing nuclear power as an alternative, he is promoting it as an additional source of power. Until the nuclear industry can find a safe way to deal with radioactive waste, it can never be a safe alternative power source. I will myself support the nuclear industry when it can provide an answer to what will be done with the hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive material. Put it in the Ocean? Over my dead body! Bury it in the ground. Sure we love contaminated ground water. Isolate it on South Pacific Islands. I don't think so. Patrick presents us with a choice of being executed by hanging or firing squad. The results are the same. The solution is a reduction of human populations, reduction in consumption of resources and a new ecologically friendly political, cultural and economic system. Impossible. Maybe but sometimes the impossible is the only possible solution. Meanwhile, Dr. Moore is laughing all the way to the bank because making people feel good is a profitable industry and making corporations feel good is a really profitable industry. Captain Paul Watson is also a co-founder of Greenpeace and is currently the President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and a National Director of the Sierra Club USA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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