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Why I Left Greenpeace
The Wall Street Journal ^
| April 22, 2008
| PATRICK MOORE
Posted on 04/21/2008 8:02:57 PM PDT by Aristotelian
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Mr. Moore, co-founder and former leader of Greenpeace, is chairman and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies.
To: Aristotelian
Good article.
BTW, are you an Aristotelian? I plowed through his collected writings last year (via the Great Books Of The Western World series). I still remember a statement of his from one of his biological treatises: “Gawdy and showy bees, like gawdy and showy women, are good for nothing.”
To: Aristotelian
Despite science concluding no known health risks Not quite. Chlorine can form Chloroform in water up to several parts per billion with the usual chlorination process. Five ppb is the 1 in a million cancer risk for Chloroform, and that is the risk level to which many drinking water "action" levels are set. However, the Chloroform action level is set much higher, I think at 200 ppb, simply because chlorinated drinking water supplies typically cannot mee the 5 ppb level. Still, far more lives are saved by chlorination than are lost to cancer from Chloroform.
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posted on
04/21/2008 8:11:52 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key)
To: Aristotelian
I observed that none of my fellow directors had any formal science education And yet they decided it was their mission to educate the world.
Typical elitist arrogance of the left.
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posted on
04/21/2008 8:12:47 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
To: HerrBlucher
I think I’ll take my chances with the “clean” water over my lottery-like odds of getting cancer.
To: Aristotelian
The more I read about Greenpeace these days the more I am convinced that the root belief and dogma behind its actions is an utter loathing of humanity and all its works.
Simply put, true Greenpeace believers want to kill as many humans as they can. They would be utterly delighted if a horrible plague extinguished human life in Africa, South America, most of Asia and anywhere else — with the possible exception of where THEY live.
Dying to preserve Gaea is for the little people. After all, the Greenpeacers need to survive so the can appreciate the wonderful natural biosphere without all those grubby humans stinking up the place.
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posted on
04/21/2008 8:17:17 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Bushed out!!! Another tragic victim of BDS.)
To: HerrBlucher
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04/21/2008 8:18:33 PM PDT
by
Randy Larsen
(Arrogance IS my virtue!)
To: HerrBlucher
Chlorine added to water is the only thing that effectively kills the AIDS virus. Takes only a TINY bit of chlorine in a LOT of water to do the trick. Chlorine is a life safer.
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posted on
04/21/2008 8:26:14 PM PDT
by
buffyt
(Glowbull Warming: The Greatest Hoax Since Y 2 K !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Aristotelian; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; enough_idiocy; ...
An insight into the political agenda behind the various green movements.
To: Randy Larsen
Show me proof! Proof of what? That chlorine added to water can form chloroform? That the action levels are 5 ppb for Chloroform? A net search should easily give you the answers to these questions. Give it a try. You might even find that I am wrong. If you do, let me know.
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04/21/2008 8:56:45 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key)
To: buffyt
Chlorine is a life safer. Yes, it is a life saver and it makes life safer.
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04/21/2008 8:57:42 PM PDT
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HerrBlucher
(So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key)
To: Ronin
Read the final part of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six if you haven’t yet.
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posted on
04/21/2008 9:17:40 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
04/21/2008 9:20:16 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Mecca delenda est!)
To: Hugin
and it takes a lot of my greens to keep it alive. 8=(
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posted on
04/21/2008 9:42:55 PM PDT
by
OeOeO
To: Aristotelian
Patrick Moore’s a good guy. Greenpeace, in my area, goes door to door to sell memberships...60% of which goes to the seller as a commission. Typical comment from the seller when you don’t bite is...”so you’re in favor of killing baby whales?” Slam.
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04/21/2008 9:51:19 PM PDT
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spyone
To: Aristotelian
“We all have a responsibility to be environmental stewards. But that stewardship requires that science, not political agendas, drive our public policy.”
Yeah, sure, like that has ever happened. People only trust scientists when they say what people want to hear.
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04/21/2008 10:33:17 PM PDT
by
onguard
To: spyone
A naturalist on a Cape Cod whale watch boat explained how whales were harvested for oil and baleen (used in things like buggy springs, corsets and umbrellas). The need for these products ended with advent of the oil industry. I later pointed out to his chagrin that “the oil industry therefore saved the whale.”
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04/21/2008 11:33:41 PM PDT
by
Aristotelian
("Sock it to me!" Judy Carne)
To: spyone
"so youre in favor of killing baby whales?"
Sure, and while we're at it let me advocate capital punishment for enviro-whacko fanatics!! :^)
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04/21/2008 11:51:25 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Obama: All you dumb, bitter "typical white people" must learn to say "God D--n America!")
To: Aristotelian
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posted on
04/22/2008 5:32:21 AM PDT
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: Ronin
If you have never read Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six then perhaps you should. He very blithely denounces the anti-humanity eco-freaks in the book.
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04/22/2008 9:28:02 AM PDT
by
PeterFinn
(Charlton Heston & Ronald Reagan - my two favorite Presidents.)
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