THE co-founder of environmental activist group Greenpeace has admitted his organisation peddled lies because scaring people was good for business.
Dr Patrick Moore, who left his organisation in 1986, said he was disgusted that “fake invisible catastrophes” were being invented to increase fund-raising activities.
- Environmental campaigns have become fake invisible catastrophes & threats of doom.
- It’s wrong to tell our children that we are separate from the rest of nature.
- Al Gore had it exactly backwards.
“I left Greenpeace after 15 years because the ‘green’ was all that was left,” he told an audience this month at The Steamboat Institute’s Energy & Climate Summit in the USA.
The Canadian national said his organisation had lost its humanitarian orientation and, instead, began to demonise humans and scare children.
DESTROYED
“We had a strong humanitarian orientation in order to end nuclear war, to save civilisation – in other words to stop people from being destroyed,” Dr Moore said.
“But as time went on they lost that. Now humans were being described as the enemies of nature – the enemies of the earth.
“And I know as an ecologist that humans are a part of nature, came from nature and are no more not part of nature than any other species.
“It’s wrong to tell our children that we are separate from the rest of nature.”
He said political ideology had overtaken the organisation.
“In a philosophical and even religious sort of way, Greenpeace is now peddling junk science for donations,” Dr Moore said.
“I was the only director of Greenpeace International who had any formal science education.
“My fellow directors, because chlorine can be toxic and chlorinated hydrocarbons were the target, said ‘chlorine is the common denominator, let’s just have a campaign to ban chlorine worldwide’.”
Dr Moore said that this was the time he realised the organisation was doing more harm than good.
HISTORY
“I tried my best to convince them that chlorine was one of the elements in the Periodic Table,” he said.
“It is actually the 11th most abundant element in the earth’s crust but more importantly, chlorine compounds are the most important advance in public health in history – putting it in drinking water, swimming pools and spas.
“And not only that, our medicines are made with 85 per cent chlorine chemistry and 25 per cent actually have chlorine in them.
“So I just couldn’t stay. I had to leave because they were going that way.”
Dr Moore said the organisation’s fund-raising efforts had become dependent on scaring and lying to people.
“All the predictions of catastrophe today are based on things that are invisible – like CO2 – or very remote, like polar bears and coral reefs,” he said
“So it’s impossible for the average person to observe and verify the truth for themselves.”
He said environmental campaigns had become “fake invisible catastrophes and threats of doom”.
“There is no correlation between CO2 and temperature over long-term history,” he said.
“We are at the tail end of a 50m year cooling period on earth. There is no question of this. This is absolutely true.
NARRATIVE
“But nobody talks about anything before about 1850.
“They don’t want to talk about a million years ago, or 10m years ago or 50m years ago – it doesn’t fit their narrative.
“Al Gore had it exactly backwards…
“The temperature has not followed CO2.” PC
This is so sick. It has been so damaging. It has split my family. I need to throw up.
Well, this article didn’t tell us anything most discerning people didn’t already know.
Lying to people is good for business.
Politicians have bought into this because it’s making themselves and their renewables-subsidised mates rich at the expense of taxpayers.