I'm Doe Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

This week on Moriers & Company, Kumi Nidu dared to scale an oil rig in the Arctic only to be hammered with freezing water from a high-powered hose aimed right at him.

The charismatic leader of Greenpeace International saved himself by thinking about his daughter who inspired his activism in the first place.

He says the race to save the planet can still be one.

If the leaders of the United States and other countries were able to mobilize, not millions, not billions, but trillions of dollars

overnight to bail out the banks, the bankers

and the bonuses, surely they can mobilize even less than that would be good to get us going

to bail out the planet, bail out the poor and bail out of the children and grandchildren's future.

Thanks for joining us.

We began with drama on the high seas.

Several days ago, environmental activists from Greenpeace International tried to climb a Russian

oil platform in the Arctic.

They were there to protest drilling for fossil fuels

in this fragile ecology at the top of the world. But they were confronted by gun-carrying

members of the Russian Coast Guard who fired warning shots dangerously close to the protesters

and their inflatable boats. The next day, a Russian helicopter dropped armed troops onto the deck of

the Arctic Sunrise. That's the Greenpeace Command Ship. She was seized and towed to the

port of Murmansk, and the crew held for questioning and possible charges of piracy.

Greenpeace has often dared to confront governments and corporations head on, and this wasn't

the first act of civil disobedience against the drilling rigs. Here is their leader,

Kumi Nidu, climbing a platform off the coast of Greenland, braving rough seas and high-pressure

fire hoses deliberately pounding him in his boarding party with freezing water.

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