Patrick Moore (environmentalist)
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Moore at TEDxVancouver 2009
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| Born | 1947 Port Alice, British Columbia, Canada |
| Residence | Winter Harbour, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | PhD in Ecology (1974), B.Sc. in Forest Biology (1969) |
| Occupation | lobbyist, public speaker, environmental consultant |
| Employer | Ecosense Environmental Inc., Vancouver, Canada |
| Known for | former member of Greenpeace, independent and sometimes contrary opinions on environmental policy |
| Title | President |
| Parent(s) | W.D. (Bill) Moore and Beverly Moore (nee North) |
| Awards | Ford Foundation Fellowship, Honorary Doctorate of Science North Carolina State University (2005) US National Award for Nuclear Science and History, Einstein Society, 2009. |
| Website | www |
Patrick Moore (born 1947) is a Canadian activist, and former president of Greenpeace Canada. Since leaving Greenpeace, Moore has criticized the environmental movement for what he sees as scare tactics and disinformation, saying that the environmental movement "abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism".
He has sharply and publicly differed with many policies of major environmental groups, including Greenpeace itself on other issues including forestry, biotechnology, aquaculture, and the use of chemicals for many applications. According to Greenpeace, he is "a paid spokesman for the nuclear industry, the logging industry, and genetic engineering industry" and is an outspoken proponent of nuclear energy and skeptical of human activity as the main cause for global warming.
Moore was born in 1947, in Port Alice, British Columbia, and raised in Winter Harbour, on Vancouver Island. He is the third generation of a British Columbian family with a long history in forestry and fishing. His father, W. D. Moore, was the president of the B.C. Truck Loggers Association and past president of the Pacific Logging Congress. Moore obtained a Ph.D. in ecology from the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia under the direction of Dr. C.S. Holling and forest ecologist Hamish Kimmins.
According to Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World by Rex Wyler, the Don't Make a Wave Committee was formed in January 1970 by Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Ben Metcalfe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Bob Hunter and incorporated in October 1970. The Committee had formed to plan opposition to the testing of a one megaton hydrogen bomb in 1969 by the United States Atomic Energy Commission on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. Moore joined the committee in 1971 and, as Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter wrote, “Moore was quickly accepted into the inner circle on the basis of his scientific background, his reputation [as an environmental activist], and his ability to inject practical, no-nonsense insights into the discussions.”
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