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born 1950 Canada
Paul Watson (born 2 December 1950) is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He is involved in the environmental movement and the movement for animal rights.
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I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
We are pirates of compassion hunting down, hunting down and destroying pirates of profit.
In a way, the Holocenic extinction event could also be called the "Holocenic hominid collective suicide event."
Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.
I think the problem is that we don't really understand what we are.
We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
All of our targets were criminals, they were all operating in violation of international whaling laws.
A virus kills its host and that is exactly what we are doing with our planet's life support system. We are killing our host the planet Earth.
Right now we're in the early stages of World War III. It's a war to save the planet. [Direct] action will be getting stronger. Eventually there will be open war.
V Stands for Verity, Virtue, Valor, Validity and Veganism. … Veganism is real conservation in action. It goes beyond talking about climate change and diminishment of biodiversity and actually does something to address the problems.
All violence is justified by the perpetrators and their supporters, and condemned by those who disagree. In other words, all humans support violence when they agree with the philosophy of the perpetrators and condemn violence when they disagree with that philosophy.
I am unconcerned if people do not approve of this approach, but my position is: find a whale that disapproves of our actions and we might reconsider. We didn’t ram and sink those whaling ships for people. We did so for the whales. They are our clients.
The activists of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front are merely emulating the strategies and tactics of every other social and political movement that has ever existed but with one distinct difference – they have not killed anyone. Yet environmentalists and animal rights activists have been murdered, and the media is reluctant to portray the deaths as terrorism.
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