{"id":6544,"date":"2011-07-18T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2011-07-18T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T15:50:05","slug":"when-green-groups-go-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6544","title":{"rendered":"When Green Groups Go Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/faq/">https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/faq/</a> Greenpeace continues its descent into anti-science oblivion.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/thinkingdisneycruise/">https://disneycruisinggroup.com/thinkingdisneycruise/</a> Last Thursday, the environmental group carried out a destructive anti-GMO stunt that has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/2011\/07\/australian_greenpeace_activist.html\" target=\"_blank\">outraged<\/a> scientists in Australia.\u00a0Over at Sustainablog, agricultural scientist Steve Savage <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/greenpeace-australia-gmo-wheat\/\" target=\"_blank\">describes<\/a> what happened:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/secrets-revealed/">https://forgive123.com/secrets-revealed/</a> On July, 14, three\u00a0<a title=\"A Nature blog on the topc\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/2011\/07\/australian_greenpeace_activist.html\">Greenpeace activists dressed in hazmat suits<\/a> scaled a fence, and used weed whips to destroy a GMO wheat experiment in Canberra, Australia. \u00a0The experiment was being conducted by CSIRO (the USDA equivalent for Australia). \u00a0The activists posted video of the attack on You Tube. \u00a0They also posted &#8220;explanations&#8221;\u009d by activists who could be easily identified. \u00a0Although this is technically a criminal activity, it was more likely about publicity. \u00a0Greenpeace has been at the forefront of the anti-GMO movement since the late 1990s, and it has\u00a0<a title=\"Greenpeace &quot;victory&quot; press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/en\/news\/features\/victory-monsanto-drops-ge-whe\/\">claimed victory<\/a> for stopping the development of GMO wheat varieties. \u00a0 Those heady days are fading for Greenpeace. 15 years and billions of acres into the GMO revolution, Greenpeace may just be attempting to defend conquered ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/dental-sealants/"></a> So why is this stunt damaging, nonetheless? Christopher Preston, an agricultural scientist at the University of Adelaide,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.edu.au\/scientists-appalled-by-whippersnipper-attack-on-csiro-gm-wheat-trial-2334\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/contact-5/"></a> This particular act of eco-vandalism by Greenpeace seems to have struck a nerve in Australia&#8217;s scientific community and among some science journalists. Here&#8217;s a biting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmosmagazine.com\/blog\/4523\/the-sad-sad-demise-greenpeace\" target=\"_blank\">response<\/a> from Wilson da Silva, the editor of Cosmos:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/small-business-solutions/">https://dinoeliadis.com/small-business-solutions/</a> GREENPEACE WAS ONCE a friend of science, helping bring attention to important but ignored environmental research. These days, it&#8217;s a ratbag rabble of intellectual cowards intent on peddling an agenda, whatever the scientific evidence.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://www.andrewplimmer.com/ghost-commerce/">Order Tramadol Online</a> But in the last decade or so, Greenpeace abandoned the rigour of science. When the science has been inconvenient, Greenpeace chooses dogma. Which is why it has a zero-tolerance policy on nuclear energy, no matter how imperative the need to remove coal and gas from electricity production. Or why it is adamant organic farming is the only way forward for agriculture, when organic could not feed the world&#8217;s population today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/plumbing-installation/">https://castlehomecomfort.com/plumbing-installation/</a> In his must-read post, Steve Savage at Sustainablog <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/greenpeace-australia-gmo-wheat\/\" target=\"_blank\">explores<\/a> the bigger picture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/">https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/</a> &#8230;this argument about GMO wheat is a mere sub-set of something bigger than even agriculture. \u00a0It is really about the choice between\u00a0<strong> <a href="https://growthjourneytherapy.com/specialties/"></a> risk management<\/strong> based on sound science or\u00a0<strong> <a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/trainingoverview/">http://masterfacilitator.com/trainingoverview/</a> risk avoidance<\/strong> based on the &#8220;Precautionary Principle.&#8221;\u009d \u00a0The same is true of the Climate Change and Vaccine\/Autism debates, as well as many more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/concierge/">https://disneycruisinggroup.com/concierge/</a> As for a certain leading group of the environmental movement, Silva in Cosmos\u00a0ends his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmosmagazine.com\/blog\/4523\/the-sad-sad-demise-greenpeace\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> with withering contempt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/noticias-peru/">Purchase Valium Online</a> Greenpeace has lost its way. Its former glory rested on the righteousness of its actions in support of real evidence of how humanity was failing to care for the environment. Now it is a sad, dogmatic, reactionary phalanx of anti-science zealots who care not for evidence, but for publicity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
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