Dr. Patrick Moore, the founder and former President of Greenpeace, presented at the 2013 Agri-Growth Council Annual Meeting. He discussed his journey in becoming a sensible environmentalist and his new initiative, AllowGoldenRiceNow.org.

1. Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist
Minneapolis - November 5, 2013
Patrick Moore, Ph.D.

2. Allow Golden Rice Now
Agri-Growth Council
Minneapolis - November 5, 2013

22. Environmental Extremism
•AntiHuman
•Anti-Science and
Technology
•Anti-Trade and AntiGlobalization
•Anti-Business and AntiCapitalism Anti•Just Plain
Civilization

24. Wood is the most important renewable energy source
and the most important renewable material resource

25. We should be growing more trees and using more
wood. Many activists argue that we should cut fewer
trees and use less wood.

26. Trees grow in a factory called the
forest, by renewable solar energy

27. Steel, concrete, and other non-renewable
materials are made in real factories with huge
inputs of energy, mainly fossil fuels.
TREES ARE THE ANSWER
WOOD is GOOD
www.greenspirit.com

28. “In the long term, a sustainable forest management strategy
aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon
stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of
timber, fibre, or energy from the forest, will generate the
largest sustained mitigation benefit.” (38 words)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 4th Assessment
Report, 2007
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the
foremost peer-reviewed experts on climate change, says the
easiest and cheapest way to fight climate change is to "leave
trees standing and protect its biodiversity."
Stephanie Goodman, Greenpeace, Vancouver Sun, Feb. 2011
Grow More Trees - Use More Wood
(6 words)
Patrick Moore - Repeatedly
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29. Sustainable Salmon Aquaculture - British
Columbia, Nova Scotia, Washington
State, Maine, Norway, Chile, Scotland, New
Zealand, Australia.

32. “I would never feed a child farmed
salmon. It’s poison”
David Suzuki
Toronto Star, September 15, 2004

33. There are many opinions about climate change
There is no convincing scientific
evidence that human release of
carbon dioxide will, in the
foreseeable future, cause
catastrophic heating of the Earth's
atmosphereobserved increasethe
Most of the and disruption of in
Earth'saverage temperatures since
global climate.
Global Warming Petition Project –
the mid-20th century is very likely
Opposed toobserved increase31,000
due to the Kyoto – Signed by in
Scientists and Professionals.
anthropogenic GHG concentrations.
“I am Nations Intergovernmental
Unitedcertain there is too much

34. CO2 Levels in the Global Atmosphere

35. 22C
17C
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14.5C
12C
A Billion Years of Global Climate Change

36. CO2 LEVELS HAVE FLUCTUATED GR

37. 1998
warmest year to date
What happened here?
Why did it get warmer here?

38. Ocean Temperature is not Increasing

39. Summer 2007

40. Winter
2007

41. This is the sum total of our knowledge of the
extent of sea ice in the northern and southern
Source: Polar Research
hemispheres. Group - University of Illinois
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

42. Good thing we weren’t around 10,000 years ago

43. Tropical Cyclone Energy is Not Increasing
"There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends
in normalized losses (from extreme weather events) have not been
attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change"
IPCC - Special Report on Extremes, March 2012

45. Hydro supplies 20% of global electricity production.
It is the most important and cost-effective source of
renewable electricity

46. Three Gorges Hydroelectric Dam - Yangtze River, China
22,500 Megawatts = 40 Coal-Fired Power Plants

47. China, Canada and Brazil Lead in Hydroelectric
Generation

48. Greenpeace’s Fossil Fuel Dilemma
Greenpeace says: "This ship is driven by
super-efficient electric motors and sails
that set a standard for sustainable
shipping. It will be powered by the
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/c
now-rainbow-warrior-in-action/blog/37537/

49. Nuclear energy will be the most important source of electricity in the
future. There is fuel for thousands of years.

50. 21 countries
produce 15% or
more of their
electricity from
nuclear energy.

51. Used Nuclear Fuel is one of Our Most important Future
Energy Resources
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52. Nuclear and hydroelectric energy are the only nongreenhouse gas-emitting energy sources that can
effectively replace fossil fuels and satisfy global demand
Electricity
 Hydrogen
 Desalinization
 Heating

53. Heavy Oil Upgrader - Suncor

54. Oil Sands Mining - Canada

55. Coal Mining - USA
CO² Emissions from Burning US Coal Production are
About 15 Times Higher than from Burning Canadian Oil Sands Production

56. Oil Sands
Edmonton

57. Reclaimed Tailings Pond at Suncor Oil Sands
Project

58. Bison Managed by Fort McKay First Nation on
Reclaimed Tailings Pond at Oil Sands Project

59. Reforested Area Reclaimed from Active Mining
Operations

60. Good Enough For
Me!

61. Allow Golden Rice
Now!
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62. Organizations That Say GM Food is Safe
The American Medical Association
The American Assn for the Advancement of Science
The World Health Organization
The National Academy of Sciences
The Royal Society of Medicine (UK)
The European Commission
The American Council on Science and Health
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The American Society for Cell Biology
The American Society for Microbiology
The American Society of Plant Sciences
The International Seed Foundation
The International Society of African Scientists
The Federation of Animal Science Societies
The Society of Toxicology
The French Academy of Science
The Union of German Academies
The International Council for Science and many more

63. The Main Biotech Crops Grown Today are
Corn, Soybeans, Cotton, Canola, and Papaya. Many others are in
development.

64. Since 2002, when GM
corn was introduced in
the Philippines, farmers
income has increased by
$155 million per year, and
pesticide use has
declined more than 50%.
A farmer with Bt corn in the Philippines – Greenpeace warned of
“dying children and cancer clusters”.

65. Indian farmers forced the government to legalize Bt cotton
Since 2002 when GM cotton
was introduced in
India, production has more
than doubled. India was a
cotton-importing country.
Today India exports 20% of its
production. 70 million people
are employed in cotton
farming.

66. A good illustration of the effectiveness of GM technology. The potato
plants on the right have been modified to resist the Colorado potato
beetle. Those on the left have not been modified. It is easy to see why
farmers grow GM crops.

67. Vitamin A Deficiency in Preschool-Age Children

68. 250 million preschool
children are vitamin A
deficient.
World Health Organization
More than 2 million people
die from diseases related
to vitamin A deficiency
every year.
Golden Rice Project
Photo taken in India: December 2012 by
Prof Ingo Potrykus

69. Right to left: Prof. Peter Beyer, and Dr. Ingo Potrykus, the coinventors of Golden Rice. Dr. and Ms. Datta helped in the lab
during the nine years of discovery. Their work may one day end
nutrient deficiency for hundreds of millions of people.

70. Golden Rice has the potential to eliminate Vitamin A deficiency in
developing countries, saving 250,000 - 500,000 children from
blindness and death every year due to vitamin A deficiency.

71. The only difference between conventional rice and Golden Rice is
that Golden Rice contains the essential nutrient beta carotene.

72. Under the agreement reached among patent holders and
the Golden Rice Project, any farmer in a developing
country earning less than $10,000 a year will not pay a
license fee for Golden Rice and will be able to save and
replant the seed.

73. Organizations Involved With the
Development of Golden Rice
The Golden Rice Humanitarian Board
The International Rice Research Institute
The Rockefeller Foundation
Syngenta Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Philippine Rice Research institute
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute
Helen Keller International
Biosafety Resources Network
Biotechnology Institute of the Philippines
Seed Stories
United States Agency for International
Development (USAID)
US National Institutes of Health

74. A Golden Rice Field Trial at the Philippine Rice Research Institute
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75. Urban activists, supported by Greenpeace (these are not farmers)
destroying research crops in the Philippines in August 2013. Filipino
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farmers don’t have tattoos, video cameras, or dyed hair.

76. Greenpeace anti-GMO Activists Claiming that Golden Rice is Deadly
The ultimate disinformation and ignorance

77. Greenpeace claims that there has not been enough testing on GM
foods, including Golden Rice. Yet when scientists conduct field tests
and clinical nutrition tests, Greenpeace destroys the field tests and
trashes the scientists who do the nutritional tests. Does Greenpeace
really believe that “possible unforeseen circumstances” are worse
that 500,000 children going blind every year?

78. 40 grams of Golden Rice a day is all that is needed
to prevent blindness and death

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80. Summary- A Sensible Environmentalist
Would:
1. Grow more trees and use more
wood
2. Choose hydroelectric power where it is
available. nuclear energy over coal for electricity
3. Choose
production.
4. Use geothermal heat pumps in most
buildings. cost-effective technologies that require less fossil
5. Develop
fuels.
6. Use genetic science to improve food and medicine.
7. Not ban useful chemicals unless there is evidence of harm.
8. Embrace aquaculture as a sustainable industry.
9. View climate change as natural and not catastrophic.
10. Recognize that poverty is the worst environmental problem.
11. Not kill or capture whales or dolphins anywhere, ever.

81. Thank You!

82. www.ecosense.me
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