The first reason was because by the mid-80’s the majority of people now agreed with all the reasonable things we in the environmental movement were saying they should do. Now when a majority of people agree with you, it’s hard to remain confrontational with them. And so the only way to remain anti-establishment was to adopt ever more extreme positions. When I left Greenpeace it was in the midst of them adopting a campaign to ban chlorine worldwide. I said ‘guys, this is one of the elements in the periodic table you know, I’m not sure it’s in our jurisdiction to be banning an entire element’.
The other reason that environmental extremism emerged was because world communism failed, the wall came down and a lot of peaceniks and political activists moved into the environmental movement, bringing their neo-Marxism with them, and learned to use 'green language' in a very clever way to cloak agendas that actually had more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than they do with anything in ecology or science”.
Patrick Moore (co fondateur de Green peace)
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