Patrick Albert Moore (born June 15, 1947) is a Canadian industry consultant, former activist, and past president of Greenpeace Canada. Since leaving Greenpeace in 1986,[2] Moore has criticized the environmental movement for what he sees as scare tactics and disinformation, saying that the environmental movement "abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism".[3] Greenpeace has criticized Moore, calling him "a paid spokesman for the nuclear industry, the logging industry, and genetic engineering industry"[4] who "exploits long-gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson".[5]
Stupid old trollop doesn't realise that Greenpeace turned itself into a money making machines decades ago, more Alinkyism from the Californicator.
OSLO, Norway (AP) _ Greenpeace has become a big business more interested in selling ″green alibis″ than tackling tough environmental problems, the ousted leader of its Norwegian office claims in a book.
″Greenpeace uses a lot more of its resources on recruiting members and making money than on protecting the environment,″ said Bjorn Okern, who managed the Greenpeace organization in Norway from 1990 until he was fired last spring.
He said Greenpeace thrives by offering ″green alibis,″ allowing members - often from cities - to clear their conscience with issues, such as whaling, that do not affect their lives or personal consumption.
″Greenpeace is leading the environmental movement astray by downgrading important tasks and making people believe that if they can save one Minke whale, they’ve saved the world,″ Okern said in an interview.
Geir Wang-Andersen, of Greenpeace Norway, dismissed the book and Okern’s claims as an attempt to profit by smearing Greenpeace.
The release Friday of the Norwegian-language book, ″Power Without Responsibility,″ coincides with the start, probably next week, of Norway’s first commercial whale hunts in six years. Norway has come under fire from Greenpeace and other environmental groups for defying a global whaling ban imposed by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and extended last month.
Okern’s book claims that the global environmental group picks issues that are easy to sell. For example, he said, popular ″Save the Whales″ campaigns continue despite broad agreement that the Minke whales Norway plans to hunt are not endangered.
He said Greenpeace then skimps on the tough threats, such as nuclear power, ozone depletion and excessive consumption of energy and raw materials.
Okern also suggested in the book that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had a hand in starting Greenpeace in the 1970s as a global political tool, and that the group still concentrates on actions outside America, such as protests against whale hunts in Norway.
″I don’t think the CIA is behind Greenpeace today, but I would claim that the CIA probably helped in its birth,″ he said in the interview.
The 53-year-old Norwegian said he was fired last year for rejecting Greenpeace’s strict anti-whaling policy.
″He was fired because he couldn’t handle the job.″ said Wang-Andersen. ″I think he represents whichever side pays him. ... He has a big economic interest in this.″
Okern said he moved to the arctic Lofoten Islands, the center of Norway’s whaling industry, to write and study the local culture that depends on the hunts.
″I wrote the book to try to save Norway’s coastal culture from Greenpeace, and because Greenpeace has misled millions of people,″ said Okern.
Responding to Wang-Andersen, he said few people could handle the job of heading Greenpeace Norway. Five people have held the position in the past four years, he said, and it is vacant at the moment.
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