| Glenn Seaborg |
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he left greenpeace
because they were too middle-of-the-road for a quarter of a century now captain watson and his small volunteer crews have navigated the oceans of the world single-handedly enforcing the international laws that nations are unable or unwilling to uphold he traces his questioning of authority to his youth as a left-handed child he was told he was wrong and became a questioner he defines intelligence as the ability to live in harmony with the natural world and that homo sapiens are therefore not the most intelligent species on earth of greenpeace the $300 million dollar a year “world’s largest feel-good organization” he says he feels like dr. frankenstein the problem he has with most large organizations is that they become preoccupied with fund-raising strategies instead of action |
what he absolutely does believe in is the power of the individual that the only things that have ever made a difference are the acts of individuals in 1979 captain watson and his crew chased the notorious whaling ship sierra into a dock in portugal and at this dock dogs were being abused a nineteen-year-old kid on the crew asked what to do about it he told the kid a teenager named alex pacheco to form his own action to address this wrong so the teenager started a group people for the ethical treatment of animals in 1972 he wrote an article on nelson mandella but couldn’t get it published was told we don’t do articles on terrorists nobody thought the man would ever be released from prison nobody dreamt the man would be president the power of one asked if he is an ecological terrorist captain watson replies simply “no, but exxon oil is” |
| Marine Conservationist |
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23 February 00
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