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Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.

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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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Planets
Future
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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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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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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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We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind.
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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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We go after unlawful activities.
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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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This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.
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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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Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
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There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.
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Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
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You can't love nature with a gun
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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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I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
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It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
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Earthworms are far more valuable than people.
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I’ve got no criminal record.
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We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.
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Social change comes through people.
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