THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 135, June 1, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE GREENPEACE SCAM
By Alan Caruba
ENVIRONMENTALIST PROPAGANDA VERSUS THE TRUTH: THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT'S MANIPULATION
OF PUBLIC OPINION THROUGH UNRELENTING ATTACK ON THE MOTIVES & CREDIBILITY OF THOSE WHO STEP UP TO
PRESENT THE TRUTH, BELIEVING THAT IT IS THE BEST DEFENSE AGAINST THE ENDLESS FLOW OF LIES WITH WHICH THE
ENVIRONMENTALISTS HAVE BECOME IDENTIFIED
FULL STORY:
Being attacked by Greenpeace should be considered a badge of honor. In May, 2008, the Heartland Institute was the
subject of a Greenpeace news release that described the Chicago-based think tank as “a free-market, anti-regulation
Rightwing think tank” funded by leading American corporations and reputable foundations.
That same month, Heartland Institute sponsored a ground-breaking conference on climate change in New York. More
than 500 of the world’s leading climatologists, meteorologists, economists, policy analysts, and others attended. Its
keynote speaker was Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic.
Having lived under Communist rule, President Klaus understood the true nature of Greenpeace and other
environmentalist organizations. He is an outspoken critic of the global warming hoax. He, along with many others, has
identified the real reason for the climate alarmism endemic to the environmentalist movement.
Its agenda has always been to drastically reduce the human population, to attack consumption as evil, and its rabid
hatred of Capitalism and the free market economy. “The climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotence, in knowing
better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong,” says Klaus.
In the early 1990s, an encyclopedic book, Trashing the Economy, by Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb, closely
examined the many environmentalist organizations, among which was Greenpeace. It was and is quite revealing, noting
that Greenpeace was founded in 1971 by a group of draft dodgers living in Vancouver, Canada. “Confrontation, civil
disobedience, inflammatory lies, and physical harassment are Greenpeace’s methods. . . . ”
Greenpeace gained fame protesting the whaling industry, and went on to attack the timber industry. It gained further
momentum attacking genetically modified seed stocks responsible for increasing the yield of crops that has since been
recognized as preventing famines. The book called Greenpeace “the archetypal ‘Eco-Thug’ organization that behaves
as if it were above the law of all nations.”
The May Greenpeace news release attacked Heartland’s citation of a petition signed by “more than 500 qualified
researchers whose research in professional journals provides historic and/or physical proxy evidence” that debunks
the global warming hoax.
Among signers of the petition attacked by Greenpeace are Dr. Fred S. Singer and Dennis T. Avery, two scientists with
impeccable credentials, but who Greenpeace said were not climate scientists. Dr. Singer, is the former Director of the
National Weather Satellite Center and a renowned atmospheric scientist from George Mason University. Avery is a
senior fellow with the Hudson Institute, a prolific policy analyst, and an author of a book debunking global warming.
Among the founders of Greenpeace was Peter Bahouth, who is on record saying:
“I don’t believe in the market approach. . . . When companies
have a bottom line of profit, you won’t have them thinking
about the environment.”
Capitalism and the market economy is about profit, and, from that, comes jobs, dividends for investors, research and
development of new technologies, and the opportunity to improve both the individual’s wealth and that of entire
nations. Peter Bahouth opposes all this.
Another founding member, Dr. Patrick Moore, an ecologist, has long since disowned Greenpeace and the
environmentalist movement. In an interview, Dr. Moore was asked why the movement “got it wrong?” He responded
saying that, “The environmentalist movement abandoned science and logic somewhere in the mid-1980s, just as
mainstream society was adopting all the more reasonable items on the environmental agenda.” He went on to note that,
“Environmentalism was always anti-establishment,” citing Greenpeace’s opposition to the forestry industry, genetically
modified crops, and other example of commerce and modern technology.
The big difference between Greenpeace and the Heartland Institute is that the former has never been interested in the
truth, scientifically or otherwise, while the Institute has been dedicated to both the best that science has to offer and to
our nation’s leadership in defending free market Capitalism against authoritarian political regimes and the failed
Communist, Socialist, and other collectivist economic systems.
Greenpeace, a multi-million dollar operation with branches around the world, has demonstrated the capacity to
manipulate public opinion, but it does so in the fashion that the entire environmentalist movement has adopted, the
unrelenting attack on the motives and credibility of those who step up to present the truth, believing that it is the
best defense against the endless flow of lies with which the environmentalist movement has become identified.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Agriculture, the Economy, & Human Welfare:
Policy Issues Relating to Food Production
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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