Greenpeace co-founder changes mind

American Thinker ^ | 2/23/07 | Thomas Lifson

[Tolkien]

Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, pens an op-ed in the New York Post endorsing the use of nuclear power, an enemy that the greenies fought tooth and nail for decades.

[rednesss]

Yeah the Thorium fuel cycle is interesting. I believe that India is pursuing it as they have abundant deposits of Thorium.

[SunkenCiv]

The Tree Solution
by Jim Wilson

As Greenpeace expanded to become the world's largest international environmental organization, Moore's star steadily rose and he eventually became vice president of research. Then he did something even more unexpected than joining the organization in the first place. He packed up and quit... In the months before his departure, Moore had begun talking heresy. "The environmental movement had gone astray and lost its perspective on forests," Moore says. "Rather than cutting fewer trees and using less wood, we should be growing more trees and using more wood." Greenpeace branded him an eco-Judas. Now comes the biggest surprise of all. Recently published research suggests that Moore is right. Cutting down old trees could be the best way to thwart global warming.