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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
Sailor
City of Toronto
Paul Franklin Watson
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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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Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
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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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Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.
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Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
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Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.
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Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.
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You can't love nature with a gun
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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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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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A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
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I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.
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WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.
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It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
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We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
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There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
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Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
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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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It's funny but when young people say to me what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business? My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.
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Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
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