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Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter dies
CBC ^ | 5/2/05

Posted on 05/02/2005 12:07:15 PM PDT by Borges

TORONTO - Broadcaster, author and journalist Bob Hunter, who co-founded the environmental action group Greenpeace, has died. He was 63.

Hunter, who was the ecology news specialist for CHUM's Citytv, had been battling prostate cancer.

Co-founder of Greenpeace, Bob Hunter, dies at age 63 Hunter was also known in Toronto for his early morning Paper Cuts segment on the network where he would appear in his bathrobe and comment on the stories of the day in the newspapers.

Hunter, born in Manitoba, helped launch the pro-environmental group Greenpeace in 1971 after sailing to Amchitka to oppose nuclear weapons testing.

"This was a man with a great loving heart, a brilliant mind and a massive spirit," said Stephen Hurlbut, vice-president of news programming for Citytv.

Hunter was also honoured as one of Time magazine's Eco Heroes of the 20th Century.

He won a number of awards for his writings, including a Governor General's Award in 1991 for his work Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past.

In 2001, he ran unsuccessfully for the Liberals in a provincial by-election.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ecoterror; environment; greenpeace; obituary; pollutingearth
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1 posted on 05/02/2005 12:07:19 PM PDT by Borges
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Bob Hunter 2005 - No longer contributing to global warming.


2 posted on 05/02/2005 12:10:09 PM PDT by TheDon (Euthanasia is an atrocity.)
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To: Borges

Heard he was swimming in his black wetsuit and accidentally harpooned by Japanese whalers.


3 posted on 05/02/2005 12:10:51 PM PDT by wvobiwan (United Nations = World-wide Criminal Organization)
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To: TheDon

R.I.G.P.???


4 posted on 05/02/2005 12:11:31 PM PDT by Bluegrass Conservative
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To: TheDon

Wait, does decomposition produce any heat? I would imagine the gases would? (I'm bad)


5 posted on 05/02/2005 12:11:39 PM PDT by RushCrush (Hey hey! ho ho! Kerry! sign that one-eight-oh!)
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To: Bluegrass Conservative

LOL


6 posted on 05/02/2005 12:12:24 PM PDT by pleasedontzotme
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To: Borges
I guess cremation is out, particulate pollution and all that.

So is burial, misuse of greenspace.

I guess that only leaves composting or taxidermy as possible solutions.

7 posted on 05/02/2005 12:13:35 PM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: pleasedontzotme

does he get a 21-whale salute ?


8 posted on 05/02/2005 12:13:39 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: Borges

"'E's not dead! 'E's just bein' recycled."


9 posted on 05/02/2005 12:14:47 PM PDT by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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Bob Hunter, doesn't have to keep up with Greenpiece of sh!t!


10 posted on 05/02/2005 12:14:48 PM PDT by melancholy (Wacko Jacko is in deep Kako!!)
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To: Borges
Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter dies

Good.

Hippies piss me off.

11 posted on 05/02/2005 12:15:53 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: Borges

63 is young, eh?


12 posted on 05/02/2005 12:16:46 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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Bob Hunter 2005 - No longer contributing to global warming

LOL. You're killing me!!!

13 posted on 05/02/2005 12:18:38 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Borges
Wait everyone, wasn't Bob Hunter the one who exposed the modern environmental movement as nothing more than a scam? Isn't that why he left GreenPeace? I heard he was more of a conservationist whose orginization was hijacked by lefties..

Maybe I'm thinking of someone else?
14 posted on 05/02/2005 12:18:40 PM PDT by mnehring (http://www.mlearningworld.com)
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To: wideawake

63 is young, eh?

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It is...when you're over 50. :)

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RIP Mr. Hunter...didn't agree with Greenspeace and other enviro-whacko politics, but still...wouldn't wish anything on ya now that you're gone.


15 posted on 05/02/2005 12:18:47 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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Nevermind, it was Dr. Patrick Moore who was one of GreenPeace's founders who left calling the environmental movement the world's biggest scam...


16 posted on 05/02/2005 12:19:40 PM PDT by mnehring (http://www.mlearningworld.com)
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To: Borges

F*ck him; I make no apologies either.


17 posted on 05/02/2005 12:21:11 PM PDT by gedeon3
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To: wvobiwan

Really? I heard that he was clubbed to death by a baby Harp Seal.


18 posted on 05/02/2005 12:22:16 PM PDT by Vinnie_Vidi_Vici
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Hate to say it, but the right one died. Patrick Moore another co-founder, lives. But he saw the light and realized Greenpeace had turned into nothing but a bunch of politicized people haters, and now preaches sustainable development. Needless to say, the environuts hate him.
19 posted on 05/02/2005 12:22:45 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: kingattax

>>does he get a 21-whale salute ?<<

Nope, some of his compadres may give him a wail salute.

They thought of a 21-fart salute, however, no farting is permitted because methane is dangerous to the ozone layer.


20 posted on 05/02/2005 12:22:45 PM PDT by melancholy (Wacko Jacko is in deep Kako!!)
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