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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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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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You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
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The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
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WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.
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Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.
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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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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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Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
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I’ve got no criminal record.
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We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of divine legend, and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control.
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You can't love nature with a gun
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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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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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A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
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We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
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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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Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
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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 doesn't matter what is true it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.
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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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