Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore fired back at the environmental group he spent years leading over attempts to rewrite the history of their founding.
“This is a case of historical revisionism,” Moore told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview.
Greenpeace renewed their years-long feud with Moore, tweeting in response to President Donald Trump’s touting of Moore’s comments on Fox News that the ecologist “was not a co-founder” of the group and called him a “paid lobbyist, not an independent source.”
However, Greenpeace’s website listed Moore among its “founders and first members” before quietly removing it around 2007.
Moore is only listed as a member of the group’s 1971 maiden voyage to oppose nuclear testing. Greenpeace’s revised history also claims that Phil Cotes founded the group in 1970 with Irving Stowe and Jim Bohlen.
Yet, there was never a Phil Cotes. Greenpeace is likely referring to Paul Cote, but he is not listed as a founder on the group’s website despite being mentioned (as Phil Cotes) in the group’s public statements.
Moore, who left Greenpeace in 1986, called the group “corrupt, decadent and lazy.” Indeed, Greenpeace has been rocked by scandals in recent years, including losing millions in donations speculating on international currency markets.
“I can think of all kinds of words that are worse to describe them,” Moore said. “These guys are floating around on a $32 million boat like a bunch of college kids. Then they always forget to mention it’s powered by a 1,800-horsepower diesel engine.”
Moore said Greenpeace achieved great things while he was there, including restricting whaling and atomic testing, but by the 1980s the group had become too radical. Moore also served as the president of Greenpeace Canada for many years.
“My decision was made in the 1980s. At the time I said very clearly, ‘I’m going to stick with science and logic, you can keep your fear-mongering,’” Moore said. “We did a good job and it’s a shame it got turned into a racket. They should retire.”
Now, Moore is an outspoken opponent of what he calls “fake science” that’s often used by activists to push an anti-energy, alarmist agenda.
Moore got into his most recent spat with Greenpeace after publicly criticizing the Green New Deal resolution, which Greenpeace supports.
Specifically, Moore called the resolution’s main champion, Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a “pompous little twit” for pushing anti-fossil fuel policies that would result in “mass death.”
Moore took part in the 1971 voyage aboard a shoddy fishing vessel to protest hydrogen bomb testing in the Aleutian islands. Greenpeace came about in the wake of that journey, which is widely considered the group’s birthday.
Moore said Greenpeace seemed to have no problem with him calling himself a cofounder until he came out in favor of nuclear energy.
The Nuclear Energy Institute launched the “Clean And Safe Energy Coalition” in 2006 with Moore and Christine Todd Whitman, who headed the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush.
“It was the only position in my 15 years at Greenpeace that I regretted. I made a mistake in conflating nuclear war with nuclear energy,” Moore said.
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Greenpeace is a joke a sick joke their boarding ships and oil rigs sailing all over t he Globe in their Fossil Fueled Ships Arctic Sunrise and Rainbow Warrior II they were once fined in Alaska for leaking Deiesel Fuel intoa river they left barrels of hazerdous waste in the part of San Pedro,they destroyed the jobs of west coast tuna fishermen with their Dolphin Safe Tuna scam
The contrast between Moore and Green Peace shows the difference between a true environmentalist and those who use environmental issues as an excuse to implement items on the leftist agenda.
Green Peace has company when it comes to trying to change history. Joseph Stalin tortured his former teachers to get statements to support changing his own history. Closer to home some tried change our history of slavery to one of constant rebellion by the slaves. This point of view didn’t stand up very well when archeological digs showed that the plantation masters gave guns to their slaves.
The initial hostility between Moore and Green Peace was over nuclear power. There are only two reasons people oppose this energy. One is the superstitious fear of anything radioactive. The fact is due to its high energy density nuclear power is the safest energy available per unit of power. The other reason to oppose nuclear power is to force de-industrialization. That also requires shutting down the use of fossil fuels.
Historical revisionism, they do it with temperatures why wouldn’t they do it with him.