[paulat]

Would love to know what you all think....

[ECM]

He's had some very unkind words to say about the current state of Greenpeace over the ensuing years.

[Seruzawa]

The French have done 3 good things since 1770. They supported The American Revolution. They built the Statue of Liberty. They smashed Greenpeace's boat.

[antiRepublicrat]

I think this guy realized that groups with legitimate environmental concerns are getting hijacked by anti-capitalist leftist political ideology and got out. It's too late for Greenpeace, stick a fork in it. Are there any decent environmental groups around anymore?

[atomicpossum]

Well, it's nice that he's come around to the rational concept of environmentalism, based on rationale rather than moral pomposity. To late to do any damn good, but it's still nice.

[MD_Willington_1976]

He finally put away the BONG...

[TheKost]

Read his book, check out his webpage.
www.greenspirit.com
I think he is right on the mark.

[Tribune7]

Three decades ago, Patrick Moore helped found Greenpeace. Today he promotes nuclear energy and genetically modified foods - and swears he's still fighting to save the planet.

I love Wired for making this stuff public. It's good to see this guy is growing up. If you're not a socialist at 20 you have no heart. . . etc.

[js1138]

Moore's turnabout was the biggest change of heart since Harold "Kim" Philby left Her Majesty's secret service for the Soviet Union...

We're never going to know the full truth about cold-war spies. What we do know is that the U.S. allowed the Soviets to "steal" sofware that contained a trojan horse, and which later blew up their newly constructed gas pipeline. Why did the Soviets have such confidence in their source?

[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.

[Cold Heat]

Kinda similar to Roe of Roe v Wade fame.

People eventually grow up.

Even Liberals sometimes do as well.

[sauropod]

read later

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[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.