Canadian Ecologists - Patrick Moore, James J. Kay, William E. Rees, C. S. Holling, Douglas Barton Osborne Savile, Thomas Homer-Dixon (Paperback)

Chapters: Patrick Moore, James J. Kay, William E. Rees, C. S. Holling, Douglas Barton Osborne Savile, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Pierre Dansereau, Anne Vallee, Paul Keddy, E. C. Pielou, Eric Higgs, Jennifer Shay, Jeff Harvey, E. A. Johnson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Patrick Moore was born in 1947 in Winter Harbour, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He has been an environmental activist, Greenpeace co-founder and is now Chair and Chief Scientist of Greenspirit Strategies in Vancouver, providing paid public relations efforts, lectures, lobbying, opinions and committee participation to government and industry on a wide range of environmental and sustainability issues, typically in direct opposition to the environmental advocacy movement. He is a frequent public speaker at meetings of industry associations, universities, and policy groups. He has sharply and publicly differed with many policies of major environmental groups, such as Greenpeace, on other issues including forestry, biotechnology, aquaculture, and the use of chemicals for flame retardants. He is an out-spoken proponent of nuclear energy and sceptical of human responsibility for climate change . On September 15, 1971, beginning in Vancouver, he participated in Greenpeace's first direct action as a crew member on the ship Phyllis Cormack sailing into a scheduled hydrogen bomb test in the Aleutians. The Greenpeace organization has always celebrated its birthday on the day the Phyllis Cormack departed Vancouver harbour, with its crew of ten including Moore, for the Aleutians. Given the voyage to the Aleutians, which included Moore, and Greenpeace's birthday are the same, Moore was a Greenpeace co-founder. Yet because Greenpeace disagrees with Moore's current views on environmental issues...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=54847