Ep. 559 Greenpeace Co-Founder Repudiates Organization
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2015
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Moore, a Canadian scientist who was a founding member of Greenpeace, finally had to leave the organization for its extremism. Don't miss his fascinating story!
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 559. |
| 0:03.8 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.6 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:38.2 | Welcome to another week of the show. |
| 0:40.5 | Very, very interesting guest today. |
| 0:42.3 | Patrick Moore joins us. |
| 0:44.4 | If you're not familiar with Patrick Moore, you're going to be shocked at his story. |
| 0:48.8 | Patrick Moore is a founding member of Greenpeace, the environmental organization. |
| 0:53.8 | But he left Greenpeace some years ago |
| 0:56.4 | because he basically concluded it to become completely extremist and unreasonable and anti-science. |
| 1:04.6 | And he's been doing a lot of interesting things over the years, but I thought this is an |
| 1:10.3 | interesting topic to talk about. No, he's not a Rothbardian by any means, but I thought this is an interesting topic to talk about. |
| 1:12.1 | Now, he's not a Rothbardian by any means, but he's no doubt an interesting person to talk to. |
| 1:17.3 | He's a Canadian scientist, a founding member of Greenpeace, and also President of Greenpeace, Canada for nine years. |
| 1:24.8 | He was also director of Greenpeace International for seven years. He is the author |
| 1:30.0 | of Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout, The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist. I will link to that |
| 1:36.7 | and to all kinds of information about Patrick Moore, his website, ecosense.me, whole lot of stuff |
| 1:43.5 | at tomwoods.com slash 5559. Before I get to Patrick Moore, |
| 1:47.8 | a couple of very quick things. Number one, I have decided to do what I've done the previous |
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