Climate ‘Scare Story’ Began With Far-Left Ideology: Greenpeace Co-Founder

Patrick Moore talks about why he left Greenpeace and why the push for net-zero emissions is an unattainable goal

Patrick Moore (back, 2nd L) poses with other crew members of the first Greenpeace voyage from Vancouver to Alaska to protest the U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Aleutian Islands in September 1971. Photo by Robert Keziere

Patrick Moore was only 24 when he co-founded Greenpeace in the early 1970s. He soon became the driving force behind the environmental activist group’s many influential campaigns, such as to stop nuclear testing, protect endangered whales, and prevent toxic dumping.

“It began in 1971 with the first voyage to stop U.S. hydrogen bomb testing in Alaska, which we did,” Moore told The Epoch Times. “And then we went after France’s atmospheric nuclear testing in the South Pacific.”