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 .p177 many references to "renewable", but how often are replacement trees '''actually''' planted?
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 .p180 [[ https://greenspiritstrategies.wordpress.com/ | Greenspirit Strategies ]] Vancouver Yalehouse district
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Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout

The Makings of a Sensible Environmentalist

Patrick Moore Central 333.72092 M8235c 2010

  • Patrick Albert Moore born June 15, 1947 in British Columbia, UBC PhD 1974 (mining pollution)
  • Wikipedia

  • Website

  • p005 88% of medicines are synthesized with chlor-alkali chemistry

  • p006 sustainable aquaculture, colleagues hostile
  • p007 Less wood, more steel and concrete, more environmental damage (how about aluminum?)
  • p009 Geothermal heat pumps more important than solar panels or windmills
  • p016 Rice fields reflooded (overwinter decay) to preserve nutrients, rather than burned.
  • p016 wintering habitat for shorebirds
  • p024 communism and fascism meet behind your back (where you can't watch them plotting)
  • p025 Science can't prove a negative, like zero-risk safety
  • p029 "I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chances at all" -- Charles A. Lindberg
  • p030 Greenpeace against golden rice
  • p030 Golkany "The Precautionary Principle" - purchased $5.99 AbeBooks / Wonder Book Frederick MD

  • p034 Michael Crichton 2003 "The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda."

  • p036 I don't even deny we may be responsible for some of the present warming, but I do not believe we can be certain of this.
    • Sophistry or bullshit: we can measure solar energy arriving and less heat leaving, the Earth looks colder from space
    • Perhaps Moore has learned more since 2010
  • p040 Father Bill Moore inherited logging camp 1940s age 21
  • p042 Bertrand Russell Our Knowledge of the External World

  • p044 mentor C. S. Holling

  • p044 Moore interdisicplinary PhD heavy metal contamination in Rupert Inlet by mine tailings
  • p044 waste did NOT settle to inlet bottom, instead mixed with surface waters
  • p045 mining company pressured dean pressured PM to change thesis
  • p045 eventually adjudicator sided with PM and he got his Ph
  • p047 fallout from nuclear testing

  • p047 Strontium 90 -> leukemia, bone cancer (10400 day 28.5 year half life, last US above ground test 1962)

  • p048 Tests moved from Nevada to Amchitka
  • p049 Travels to Akutan Alaska 1971
  • p052 Bob Hunter "... But there is a very good chance it will become a kind of ecofacism ... faith in the gurus"

  • p052 "Indian Prophecy" hippie folklore, actually 1962 Evangelical tract

  • p053 voyage to protest French tests at Moruroa atoll 1966 to 1996

  • p056 blessing from Pope
  • p057 Ehrlich Population BombNorman Borlaug high yielding rice and wheat

  • p062 Whales evolved from hippos 60M years ago
  • p062 the "right" whales to hunt because they swim slow and float after killing
  • p064 petroleum and electricity out-competed whale oil
  • p064 Southern ocean whaling killed 30K blue whales for meat, soap, margarine
  • p073 Lawyer David Tussman incorporates Greenpeace, later betrays it says Moore

  • p075 baby Seal hunting for valuable skins

  • p075 hakapik

  • p079 P.M.quit smoking years ago, still consumes meat and alcohol
  • p093 1977 Kitimat supertanker port cancelled (restarted 2018 ]]

  • p093 spruce budworm insecticide spraying

  • p114 protested supertankers to Puget Sound, doesn't mention 1977 Magnuson legislation

  • p119 mentions Greenpeace Germany, not their preference for Russian gas instead of nuclear
  • p120 Australia has 1/3 of world's uranium deposite
  • p128 Barbara Ward Spaceship Earth 1966

  • p132 Russ George touts Seafarm : the story of aquaculture by Elisabeth Mann Borgese

  • p133 Moore ponders salmon farm in Winter Harbor
  • p134 other greenpeacers hostile
  • p135 R-Dub nickname for Rainbow Warrio
  • p140 treating sewage with chlorine dioxide instead of chlorine eliminated dioxins
  • p140 great divide between physical and social sciences
  • p145 arguments about fish farming waste
  • p146 coho salmon and rainbow transplanted around the world
  • p147 pigs and chickens get antibiotics half their lives, salmon only 3%. organic salmon none, "organic status"
  • p149 media propagates farm salmon lice risks to native salmon (with lice)
  • p150 SLICE treatment also shunned

  • p151 Omega 3 from soybean oil

  • p153 Both wild and farmed salmon are pink with the same carotenoids

... about here, Moore wanders off into the weeds ...

  • p154 strange stuff about PDBE polybrominated diphenyl esters

  • p155 Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon

  • p156 average consumer 8x PCBs from meat and 3x from milk compared to farmed salmon
    • misleading comparison: 2010 US beef consumption 39 kg, milk 228 kg, 2004 farmed salmon 1 kg
  • p160 California giant kelp grows up to 3 feet per day

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  • p164 1987 Bruntland Report Our Common Future

  • p165 Greenpeace doesn't participate, fights media war instead
  • p165 Getting to Yes, four principles for negotiating agreements:

    • Separate the people from the problem.
    • Focus on interests rather than positions.
    • Generate a variety of opinions before settling on an agreement
    • Insist that the agreement be based on objective criteria
  • p166 politicos push narrow agendas, don't learn other perspectives
  • p166 learning to speak "the other side" civilly made all the difference
  • p167 consensus process does not mean unanimous agreement about everything
  • p168 identify issues, state positions, identify reasons for positions
  • p169 describe disagreements in unanimous words
  • p170 governments don't always like round tables that clarify subjects
  • p170 Moore differentiates fossil fuel CO₂ from biomass CO₂ - but is the biomass replaced?

  • p172 War in the Woods 1993 protesting clearcutting

  • p175 Forest Alliance of BC

  • p177 many references to "renewable", but how often are replacement trees actually planted?

  • p178 to 180, a list of principles
  • p180 Greenspirit Strategies Vancouver Yalehouse district

  • p185 French bomb Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor

  • p189 John Perlin A forest journey : the role of trees in the fate of civilization

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