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The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.

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Paul Watson
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 2
Activist
Environmentalist
Naval Officer
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City of Toronto
Paul Franklin Watson
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You can't love nature with a gun
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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.
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Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
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They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
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A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
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We go after unlawful activities.
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You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
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All consumption should be local. No food products need to be transported over hundreds of miles to market. All commercial fishing should be abolished. If local communities need to fish the fish should be caught individually by hand. We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.
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To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws
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Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
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Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.
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The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.
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WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.
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The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.
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I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.
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The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.
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We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
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In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
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