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Now
The Atomic Porker, (an anagram of "Patrick
Moore") is now spewing greenwash on the license renewal
of the Entergy Indian Point Nuke which contributes 30% of New
York City's power.This is just the latest exploit in the career
of the most blatant corporate-lackey sell-out ever to disgrace
humanity. It must have come to Moore's attention that the environmental
community of Westchester NY, 25 miles north of the New York City,
has been girding for a fight to prevent the rickety Nuke from
getting a 20-year operating extension. 20 million people live
within the 50 mile radiological miasma death-radius of Indian
Point's reactors and many of the neighbour's have been calling
for the permanent closure of the outrageously dangerous plant.
They are riled about an ongoing litany of safety problems, the
storage of 1500 tons of radioactive waste onsite, the Nuke's
extreme vulnerability to a terrorist attack, and the total lack
of any workable evacuation plan.The Atomic Porker's got something
to sell to a situation like that, and he knew there was a quick
buck to be made.
Patrick Moore's lengthy list
of greenwash exploits includes his championing of the clearcut
logging of primaeval forests, industrial feed-lot fish-farming,
genetic tampering,pesticide and chemical fertilizer spewing,
the resurgence of the spewing of DDT and shilling for the Burson-Marsteller
corporate PR firm. More recently, he's celebrated George Bush's
rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, has established himself amongst
the world's several global heating deniers. Now the Atomic Porker
collects a paycheck from the Nuclear Power industry.
In 2000, Moore was contracted
to dismiss concerns about the impacts of logging, mining and
clearing for agriculture on the Amazonian rainforests. In an
interview in the New York Post he said: "All these save-the-forests
arguments are based on bad science ... They are quite simply
wrong. We found that the Amazon rainforest is more than 90 percent
intact. We flew over it and met all the environmental authorities.
We studied satellite pictures of the entire area," he said.
"They are just about the healthiest forests in the world.
This stuff about them vanishing at an alarming rate is a con
based on bad science ... Anyone who has been in the jungle knows
that if you want to live there, you'd better take a few machetes.
Otherwise, it'll take it all back," he said.
The Atomic Porker has also
found it profitable to speak for the nozzlehead's who are pushing
for the return of DDT. He is currently engaged in a smear of
Rachel Carson, whose 1962 runaway bestseller, Silent Spring,
still in print, exposed the horrors of rampant pesticide spewing.
Recently, the British government's Environment Agency convened
a panel of experts to list the 100 greatest eco-heroes of all
time. On November 28 they named the scientists, campaigners,
writers, economists and naturalists who, in their view, have
done the most towards staving off the global ecological catastrophe.
In the #1 spot: Rachel Carson.
In a recent interview with
the Christian Crusader Magazine, Patrick Moore was asked why
he has been attacking Rachel Carson. His answer:
"Rachel Carson has already
been discredited. Her scaremongering over the myth of DDT has
killed millions of children who have died from malaria. Her book
has killed more people than Mein Kampf. She was the green Hitler.
In fact these so called environmentalists are simply thugs. I
call them the Green Shirts."
Moore has also stooped to making
money out of trashing Dr. Helen Caldicott, a medical doctor,
a Nobel nominee, named by the Smithsonian Institute and Ladies'
Home Journal as one of the most influential women of the 20th
century, whose latest book again outlines the evils of nuclear
power. Caldicott, as the preeminent spokesperson on nuclear horror
absolutely towers over the quisling grovelling Gollum. Here,
in a recent interview on E&E TV, Caldicott slaps down Patrick
Moore:
Monica Trauzzi: We recently had Christie Todd Whitman
on the show, and she just founded CASEnergy with Greenpeace founder,
Patrick Moore. CASE stands for "clean and safe." Basically,
they're contending that nuclear energy is environmentally safe
and secure, and it's safe for humans. Are they wrong? And are
they part of this propaganda wave that you ...
Helen Caldicott: They are. Patrick Moore, I had it
in my conference called "Nuclear Power and Global Warming."
He's paid for by the nuclear industry. I don't know about Christie,
but I know that he is. So that I'm an independent physician ..
Monica Trauzzi: But he is a well-known environmentalist.
Helen Caldicott: Well, yeah, but he's changed, hasn't
he? He works for the nuclear industry, so he's not unbiased.
He's totally biased. He's employed by them to push nuclear power
and he's wrong! He's absolutely wrong
Since 2005, Moore has raked
it in as a speaker who "Makes the Case for Nuclear"
for the Global Speakers Agency, where his fees range between
$10,000 to $25,000. This year, Moore spoke at the Nuclear Industry
Association / British Nuclear Energy Society, "Energy Choices
2006" conference in London. Since 2006, Moore has also been
the Honorary Chair of the Canadian branch of Environmentalists
For Nuclear Energy. The Atomic Porker's also in the PR biz. Several
years ago, Moore lost his cool when Canadian journalist Stephen
Hume asked him about Burson-Marsteller's role in conducting a
public relations campaign for Argentina when the Argentinian
military's death squads were murdering thousands of citizens
and political dissidents. Moore sneered that "people get
killed everywhere."
Earlier this year, Moore attended
the United Nation's 11th Annual Climate Change Conference in
Montreal. The huge meeting failed to impress Moore, who was
there to promote nuclear power. "There is nothing concrete
going on here," he said. "There is nothing good happening
here as far as I can see. [The participants at the U.N. conference
are] just spending a whole pile of money and arguing and talking"
he added. "At least the United States is honest. Bush said,
'No we are not going to sign that thing (Kyoto) because we can't
do that,'" said Patrick Moore. "I think this whole
Kyoto process is a colossal waste of time and money," said
Moore, who rejects alarmist predictions of human-caused 'global
warming.'"
Here's what prominent Canadian
environmentalists, have to say about the Atomic Porker:
"Judas Iscariot had the
decency to hang himself after betraying Jesus. Moore...can't
even be persuaded to shut his mouth." - Paul Luke, The Province
Newspaper, BC
"Patrick Moore has gone
from being the guard dog of the environment to the lap dog of
industry" - Tzeporah Berman, ForestEthics
"Patrick Moore is a corporate
whore, an eco-Judas, a lowlife bottom-sucking parasite who has
grown rich from sacrificing environmentalist principles for plain
old money." - Captain Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society
"Dr. Patrick Moore may
be a good marine biologist and a former founder of Greenpeace
but he is presently paid by the timber industry to deliberately
mislead the public and politicians about the acceptability of
aggressive logging practices."- Dr Leonie Jacobs, University
of Utrecht in the Netherlands, 1996
"Personally, each time
I read something by this megalomaniacal crackpot I get the urge
to hurl. Now he's peddling his propaganda and lies in the United
States." - Chris Genovali, Raincoast Conservation Society
"I have read Patrick's
book, Pacific Spirit. It is not the work of a 'forest ecologist'
but a disappointing blend of pseudo-science and dubious assumptions
being used to defend clearcutting and the forest industry."
- Monte Hummel, MScF, President, World Wildlife Fund Canada
"He habitually ignores
the worst aspects of logging in his zeal to promote industry.
It's difficult to say anything good about him" - Paul George,
Director, Western Canada Wilderness Committee
"He is nothing more than
an apologist for the timber industry" - Gavin Edwards, Forest
Action Network
"He's one of those guys
I knew I couldn't trust from the first second I shook hands with
him. I mean that literally." - Dick Dillman, Greenpeace
San Francisco
"When asked why he started
a fish farm, Patrick replied: 'To make money'" - Jonathan
Mayer, Fish Biologist and former employee of Patrick Moore
"He's taken a job schlepping
for the stumpmakers" - Bob Hunter, Co-founder of Greenpeace
and City TV Reporter.
Harvey Wasserman best sums
up the efforts of the Atomic Porker:
"...In perhaps the saddest
line in the entire nuclear debate, Moore has termed the Three
Mile Island accident "a success," apparently because
it didn't explode like Chernobyl. But in a matter of moments,the TMI melt-down turned a $900 million asset into a $2 billion
(or more) liability, with an unknowable final price tag or death
toll. (my emphasis) Not until 9/11/2001 would there be a similar
"success" on our soil..."
What is it that makes Patrick
Moore such a desirable spokesman for the most heinous life-destroying
blights on the planet? Well, once upon a time, the Atomic Porker
was involved in Greenpeace. Although Moore purports to base his
environmental anathema on his obescience to the fanatical religion
of Scientism, his website does not list a single peer-reviewed
scientific paper written by him. That makes him a scientific
illiterate.The Atomic Porker has grown exceedingly fat on the
corporate slop, and has parleyed that single credential in an
otherwise singularly mediocre and phony resume into a retirement
career.
The corporations don't hire
Moore for whatever scientific twaddle he might produce -afterall,
they easily buy the science that proves that black is white from
sources with peer-reviewed credibility, no matter how ill-begotten
and contrived. What's wanted is that Greenpeace credential up
on the corporate stage, blatantly feeding at their trough, in
plain public view. They know full well the spectre of that obsequious
sell-out grovelling at the corporate teat is deeply offensive
and demoralizing to those who care a fig for the planet. The
corporations don't even care about the stain that Moore leaves
on their business, -their value for their investment in the Atomic
Porker is the supreme embarrassment and distrust that he brings
to the movement. That's a lot more powerful an image-frame for
the myopic masses than Moore's puerile and transparent message.
The irony of this idiot iconoclast insulting the very institution
whose imprimatur he has so vastly parasitized and engorged himself
upon is clearly calculated.
Good luck to the neighbour's
of Indian Point. Pigs can fly.
Ingmar Lee worries that Patrick Moore's stint
with Greenpeace in British Columbia has indelibly stained the
organization. Greenpeace BC's most recent project has been a
7-year exclusive closed-door collaboration with the logging industry
which resulted in a deal which protects less that 30% of the
Earth's final significant intact tract of primaeval temperate
rainforest from industrial logging. He can be reached at his
website, www.ingmarlee.com
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