The Frontier Centre For Public Policy is hosting a series of luncheons with Dr. Patrick Moore. Info at the links.
April 11, 2011 — Saskatoon
April 12, 2011 — Regina
April 13, 2011 — Winnipeg
The Frontier Centre For Public Policy is hosting a series of luncheons with Dr. Patrick Moore. Info at the links.
April 11, 2011 — Saskatoon
April 12, 2011 — Regina
April 13, 2011 — Winnipeg
He’s a great speaker–well worth listening to.
One of the more interesting moments in my undistinguished journalism career was interviewing Patrick moore in the early eighties when he was still with Greenpeace. I expected a zealot, he showed up with his wife and child in a small RV. And there we sat, on a bench in front of the Weyburn mall, while he explained some of their tactics. Those tactics were pretty mild compared to now. He sounded like a down to earth guy even then.
Patrick was raised in a logging camp – Winter Harbour on Northern Vancouver Island. His father, Bill was a well known and respected logging contractor and poet who used to host an annual international jazz festival at Winter Harbour.
I met Patrick about 20 years ago during the era of large provincial land use plans involving forestry. I recall emailing him around 1999 thanking him for his excellent work in defending / promoting forestry and suggesting he look into the hysteria surrounding AGW and he replied that there was adequate science on the subject (settled science). He has since, thankfully changed his mind on that issue as well.
His message needs to be heard above the nonsense that passes for environmental science in the mainstream.
GreenPeace co-founder explains what went wrong…
“World communism failed, the wall came down (in 1989) and a lot of peaceniks and political activists moved into the environmental movement, bringing their neo-Marxism with them, and learned to use green language in a very clever way to cloak agendas that actually have more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than … ecology or science.”
And that’s from a Greenpeace co-founder!
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/editorial/2011/0
3/23/17732121.html
Patrick Moore is an excellent speaker who offers some sound — and sane — commentary on the state of the modern environmental movement. He’s well-worth the admission price.
His book provides a very balanced read. He provides a compelling case to bring science to the fore and points out many instances where science is ignored or overlooked in favour of PR or scare tactics or a political agenda.
I’ll be at his lunch in Vancouver next Friday.
He should do some campus speaking if he’s not already.
I highly respect Patrick Moore, having sat in on many meetings and conventions where he was a speaker or just giving his views. The man has done more than his fair share in fighting for rational land use policy in BC.
* 6 Apr 2011
* National Post
* BY ADRIAN HUMPHREYS
* National Post ahumphreys@nationalpost.com
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