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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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Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
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The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
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It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
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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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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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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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A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
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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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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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Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die
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I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
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We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
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They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
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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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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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