Moore then Meets the Eye

Dr. Patrick Moore was a co-founder of Greenpeace. Initially, a west-coast Canadian organization involved in environmental concerns, Greenpeace went international and now has bureaus worldwide and a corporate office structure in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Moore, the president of the founding Canadian organization was one of six directors of the larger global consortium, yet the only one with an environmentally-related degree.

In leaving Greenpeace, Moore explained, “Beginning in the mid-1980s, Greenpeace, and much of the environmental movement, made a sharp turn to the political left and began adopting extreme agendas that abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism”, and further stated, “The environmental movement has lost its way, favoring political correctness over factual accuracy, stooping to scare tactics to garner support. Many campaigns now waged in the name of the environment would result in increased harm to both the environment and human welfare if they were to succeed.”

Moore contends that Greenpeace went from “a science-based organization to a political fundraising organization”. The organization’s revenues are approximately $400 million USD annually and they employ about 3,600 people. Greenpeace is not the largest environmental institution in the world, leaving little doubt why the largest seekers of 501(c)(3) classifications, an Internal Revenue Service code for non-profit organizations in the United States, are in the environmental designation.

Patrick Moore was witness to the perspectives of the environmental issue on both sides. His testimonials are the reverse of the adage, “newspapers are now only half the size because they only tell one side of the story:” Moore has the ability to bring us into the boardrooms of fanatical environmentalism.  The environmental offices are filled with lawyers and accountants, not scientists. Their mission is not to prove an argument or to debate science or facts, but to rather perform protests and demonstrations that urge funding from individuals through to large foundations, endowments, and, of course, the taxpayer. These firms are disciplined to invoke sympathetic environmental emotion towards all potential donors.

CEOs of the larger groups are paid quite handsomely as illustrated by the 2017 study “Green or Greed? An Alternative Look at CEO Compensation and Corporate Environmental Commitment”

One ‘environmental’ company I like to highlight is the Nature Conservancy (TNC). This is not an environmental activist organization at all, but in fact, the TNC is one of the nation’s largest real estate companies. They receive millions in donations as well as government funds and use the money to advance their cause of nationalizing private land and they do so at a profit – yes, they sell it to the government for more than they paid for it. In 2007, TNC says that it owned or had under conservation easement 1,177,000 acres in its private preserve system.

In many cases, as with a Montana Rancher I knew, they endeavor to get land for free by marketing the ‘wonderful’ contribution one would be making to a most precious humanitarian cause. In reality, they do this simply for an increased profit margin. In this case, they wanted to turn farm and ranch land into public lands, thereby effectively reducing potential food supplies. The TNC is not alone in this type of real estate venture – Ducks Unlimted and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation may seem a little closer to home for some.

Returning to Moore, he asserts, ”The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] is “not a science organization,” he said. “It is a political organization composed of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program” and further states, “The IPCC hires scientists to provide them with ‘information’ that supports the ‘climate emergency’ narrative”. In their original formation, a protocol of remaining away from political comment was mandated, yet immediately they set about writing a “Summary for Policy Makers” - and you can imagine in the manner it leans.

In fact, the IPCC is a regular environmental organization, much in the same mindset as Greenpeace. I accept that the moral in all of this is that generally, most people, even scientists, can be persuaded to overcome their supposed moral scruples if offered sufficient compensation.

I link an Epoch Times article on Patrick Moore here.