Via Amy Ridenour’s N…

Via Amy Ridenour’s National Center Blog comes this suggested reading by a founder of the environmental group Greenpeace, Patrick Moore.

I am often asked why I broke ranks with Greenpeace after 15 years as a founder and full-time environmental activist. I had my personal reasons, but it was on issues of policy that I found it necessary to move on.

By the mid-1980s, the environmental movement had abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism. I became aware of the emerging concept of sustainable development: balancing environmental, social and economic priorities. Converted to the idea that win-win solutions could be found by bringing all interests together, I made the move from confrontation to consensus.

Since then, I have worked under the banner of Greenspirit to develop an environmental policy platform based on science, logic and the recognition that more than six billion people need to survive and prosper every day of the year. The environmental movement has lost its way, favoring political correctness over factual accuracy, stooping to scare tactics to garner support.

And it just gets better from there, with specific of why a six stances that Greenpeace makes are not based on logic and science. Definitely worth a read.

One wonders if this is also the affliction that has climate scientists so frantic about global warming.

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