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)
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 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
- 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