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
animal pigs sharks
Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
violence commit
You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
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North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.
animal puffins chickens
Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
animal ice hunters
Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.
drama communication law
It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.
jobs fighting animal
Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.
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They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
hypocrite planets being-a-hypocrite
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
whales
All of the great whales are endangered.
apology population needs
We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.
mother children father
Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.
ecosystems people community
In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.
communication ecosystems people
We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves within linked wilderness ecosystems. No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas. Communication systems can link the communities.