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niyad
(113,556 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Greenpeace Statement On Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore often misrepresents himself in the media as an environmental expert or even an environmentalist, while offering anti-environmental opinions on a wide range of issues and taking a distinctly anti-environmental stance. He also exploits long-gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson, usually taking positions that Greenpeace opposes.
Patrick Moore Does Not Represent Greenpeace
Patrick Moore has been a paid spokesman for a variety of polluting industries for more than 30 years, including the timber, mining, chemical and the aquaculture industries. Most of these industries hired Mr. Moore only after becoming the focus of a Greenpeace campaign to improve their environmental performance. Mr. Moore has now worked for polluters for far longer than he ever worked for Greenpeace. Greenpeace opposes the use of nuclear energy because it is a dangerous and expensive distraction from real solutions to climate change.
Greenpeace and the Green New Deal
In 2019, Mr. Moore has been misrepresented as a Greenpeace spokesperson on the Green New Deal resolution, sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA). In contrast to Mr. Moores comment, please see Greenpeaces response to the Green New Deal.
Patrick Moore Did Not Found Greenpeace
Patrick Moore frequently portrays himself as a founder or co-founder of Greenpeace, and many news outlets have repeated this characterization. Although Mr. Moore played a significant role in Greenpeace Canada for several years, he did not found Greenpeace. Phil Cotes, Irving Stowe, and Jim Bohlen founded Greenpeace in 1970. Patrick Moore applied for a berth on the Phyllis Cormack in March, 1971 after the organization had already been in existence for a year.
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yonder
(9,674 posts)demmiblue
(36,885 posts)I was about to respond to niyad's post, but wanted to finish Deadline: White House!
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Building block. Maybe he means carbon?
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Please stop before you hurt your brain. We need all good Democrats!
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)He is going to tweet anything he thinks will further his agenda. His followers will no doubt, eat it up. "Carbon dioxide is a building block of all life". I mean, carbon dioxide is a waste product of human respiration and fortunately a nutrient for plants which in turn produce oxygen as their waste product, which humans need to live. That is the homeostasis of life on the planet. However, carbon dioxide is not CARBON which is the basis of life on the planet. Such an idiot!
Moore is a shill and a swine.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)There is no way to hold any of their feet to the fire in a debate. They'll never engage with any sincerity or intellectual honesty.
1. No one said there is NOT "weather and climate all around the world".
2. No one said that Carbon Dioxide is NOT a basic building block of life.
Neither of those assertions disproves basic ACC science; it's just Gish Gallop bullshit, per usual.
Stipulate to a set of facts, Motherfuckers.