Greenpeace founder now promotes nuclear energy and genetically modified foods

Wired magazine ^ | Issue 12.03 - March 2004 | Drake Bennett

[Seruzawa]

Rainbow Warrior. I do recall that the boat got too close to the French testing area and the French Navy boarded the boat and while "searching" for weapons and explosives managed to smash much of its structure rendering it unseaworthy.

It still makes me chuckle thinking about it.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[NicknamedBob]

"He hates the word weed, he says, because "it's a value judgment about plants."

Let's define "weed" as a plant that has not yet been bio-engineered to be edible. If it grows like a weed, and you can eat it, then it ain't a weed. Since we can't change us, we should just change the plants.

As for nuclear energy, whether you believe in Gaia or God, it makes sense that fossil fuels are there to use just until we figure out the puzzle of fusion. And fission is the stepping stone to unlimited fusion power.

Any competent engineer can determine that nuclear energy has a better safety record than fossil fuel based energy production. It takes people with deliberate blinders on, like Greenpeace, to ignore the truth.

[John H K]

Try just about any hunting or 4WD advocacy group.

Or a fishing group like the Recreational Fishing Alliance. And the CCA, though they can be a bit weird about some stuff sometimes (no offense to CCA members.) Membership of both is probably heavily Republican.

[paulat]

WOW!!! Just looked at his site. Thanks!!

www.greenspirit.com

[Cold Heat]

Kinda similar to Roe of Roe v Wade fame.

People eventually grow up.

Even Liberals sometimes do as well.

[conserv13]

You are correct, actually there are a lot of conservative conservation groups, most deal with hunting / fishing issues.

[olde north church]

B.A.S.S. (Bass Anglers Sportsman's Society) = quite powerful group but very conservative.

[sauropod]

read later

[Peace will be here soon]

Here is a link to the story of what happened to it while it was docked in Aukland. http://www.aucklandcitypolice.govt.nz/History/warrior.htm

[farmfriend]

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[Issaquahking]

Patrick Moore probably "Converted" when he started relizing the truth. He may a distance to go, but he's got a fair start.

[Straight Vermonter]

Mr Moore has supported the use of genetically modified "golden" rice in the third world. The rice is altered to include vitamin A to fight blindness caused by a lack of the vitamin in the diet of Asian who subsist on rice. The World Health Organization estimates that in Asia alone, half a million new cases of irreversible blindness occur each year. Greenpeace and their ilk have adamantly opposed any GM foods no matter how positive they are.

One of the attacks Greenpeace and others have used is that this is big business trying to control the food supply. Really? The rice was created by Ingo Potrykus of the Institute of Plant Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It was made by inserting the necessary genes for producing beta-carotene (taken from the daffodil) into the rice genome. The work was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Potrykus wished the technology to be distributed for free, and many of the companies that subsequently took out derivative patents agreed to license it for free.

[farmfriend]