That includes Susan Bloom, a long-time donor to the most extreme factions of the environmental and animal-rights movement.
Paul Watson has hosted at least one Bear Watch fundraiser. One Key West attorney has also filed a civil lawsuit against Singh, alleging almost 20 years of criminal activity — including racketeering and fraud. And he quietly settled a lawsuit filed by members of his sales staff who said he illegally withheld their commissions. Its purpose is to ram and sink ships.
Earth Warrior author David Morris details one such voyage in search of driftnetters. He was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for the arson of a Michigan State University research laboratory. He admitted to at least six other arsons in a November 30, speech. And Paul Watson gave him his start. Coronado joined SSCS immediately after graduating from high school in Watson supported the plan and SSCS took responsibility for the destruction.
But he was wanted for questioning by the FBI and Watson said no. In April , Allison Lance Watson was ordered to appear before a federal grand jury along with a number of other animal-rights activists. House of Representatives committee in and refused to answer questions.
He now serves on one of its advisory boards. Pacheco is co-founder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization whose leaders openly advocate terrorist violence. The hooligans pleaded guilty to mischief resulting in willful damage, and possession of burglary tools and stolen property. Two of the five were also accused of possessing explosives, carrying weapons, and vandalizing the Toronto University dentistry school, but those charges were dropped as part of a plea-bargain.
Paul Watson craves attention. His dramatic physical attacks are designed to gain maximum media exposure. In addition to taking credit for inventing tree-spiking, Watson says he was the first to put his body between a whale and a harpoon. Indeed, he is known in the environmental movement as something of a show-off. He also makes money from lectures, books, and teaching at the Arts College of Design in Pasadena.
Watson also has a seething hatred of the people whose livelihood he threatens. He has no sympathy for immigrants wishing to leave behind the horrid conditions of third-world countries to make a better life here.
The world that we live in today was not the world of the s or the s. But one problem is that we have this incredible ability to adapt to diminishment. As things become more and more diminished, we just accept it and just move on. I mean, the very idea in , that you would be buying water in plastic bottles and everyone paying more for that water than gasoline would be unthinkable. Nobody was going to do that.
Yet, here we are. Turbot, for example, was a fish nobody ate back in the s. PW: They probably believe that from their point of view, that sustainable fishing is really doing what it is doing. But the reality is giant super-trawlers. Hundred-mile-long gillnets. Long lines, giant driftnets, nets so big that they can fill three school buses full of fish.
And in just one haul, dragging and destroying the bottoms with their bare bottom trawlers. This is the reality, it is not the individuals out there and their little boat, which is what the fishing industry would like you to believe.
When I hear scientists criticise Seaspiracy , for example, I say well follow the money. And you can manipulate the science to justify whatever you want.
PW: Conservationists are not a threat to the livelihoods of indigenous and artisanal fishermen. The industrialised fishing corporations are the threat.
In , at the environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, Gro Harlem Brundtland, who was the prime minister of Norway at the time, in a speech she coined the word sustainability.
What does that mean? Today, it means business-as-usual. We call everything sustainable. There is just no sustainable level of fishery anywhere in the world. PW: We have these conferences and all the world leaders get together and they have photo opportunities together and they make all sorts of promises. Then they go home and do nothing. The reason being is that politicians have their hands tied behind their backs by their voters. Just harness your passion to the virtues of courage and imagination and go out there and change the world.
PW: I love Greta Thunberg. Illegal fishing accounts for an estimated million tons of the annual catch of fish globally. Humpback whales communicate with complex songs that can be as loud as the sound of a jet plane around decibels.
Overfishing, poaching and environmental waste have destroyed marine populations and polluted our seas. International laws and agreements exist to protect our fragile marine ecosystems, but enforcement is lacking. Sea turtle defense on the French island of Mayotte. Protecting dolphins on France's Atlantic Coast. While living in France over the last two years, Captain Watson married his girlfriend, the Russian-born opera singer Yanina Rusinovich. The couple are expecting a baby boy in October.
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