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retmil46 · #71 05-12-2012, 02:06 PM

Couple years back, I was watching an ITV documentary on global warming/climate change. One of the people they interviewed was one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, who left the organization (in his words) because of it's increasingly radicalized ideas.

I posted a link to said documentary in one of the threads on GW/CC.

He said that as time went on, and society at large put most of their basic ideas into common practice - ie, clean air, clean water, emissions controls on vehicle, protecting endangered species, serious attempts at alternative energy - many members of the organization feared they were becoming irrelevant, and felt they had to come up with increasingly radical positions/causes to "keep their name in the headlines" and keep the public support/contributions flowing from the younger generations.

One issue he disagreed with, for common sense reasons, was a proposal to ban chlorine. He said he simply asked them "How in the hell can you ban one of the naturally occurring elements on the Periodic Table?"

Another issue he disagreed with had very dark implications - the proposal that the "ideal" human population for having minimal impact on the environment, while continuing the species, was around 200 million people worldwide - the reduction from the nearly 7 billion present population to be achieved by forced euthanasia, forced sterilization, and "other" means as necessary.

IOW, those backing this proposal had decided that human beings themselves were the problem, that Gaia/Mother Earth took precedence over human life, and she/it should be protected at all costs by reducing the human population drastically, apparently with the "chosen enlightened few" left to carry on.

That, along with his disagreement with them over the use of nuclear power, were the straws that broke the camel's back and caused him to leave the organization.