Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Paul Franklin Watsonis a marine wildlife conservation and an environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation. He is a citizen of Canada and the United States...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 December 1950
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
marine hands fishing
All consumption should be local. No food products need to be transported over hundreds of miles to market. All commercial fishing should be abolished. If local communities need to fish the fish should be caught individually by hand. We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.
animal years answers
Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.
motivation ocean law
There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.
writing winning long
There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
tragedy incentives ecology
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
conceited religion apes
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
lying people goebbels
Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.
hero soul ruins
What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
believe kyoto-protocol people
It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
animal whales today
I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
people musician groups
Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.
law insanity humanity
I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.
thinking animal whales
We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
believe culture violence
That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .