Paul Watson

Paul Watson

Journalist

Paul Watson is a marine conservationist and founder of Sea Shepherd, known for his direct action campaigns against whaling and illegal fishing.

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Born
January 1, 1950
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"I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy."

Whales Giving Forever
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"Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet."

Voice Planets
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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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"I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today."

Animal Whales Today
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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."

Ocean Humanity Population
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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."

Jesus Book Media
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"My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die."

Ocean Sharks Whales
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"The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it."

Tragedy Incentives Ecology
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"I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds."

Fighting Warrior Odds
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"They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps."

Animal Wimps Purpose
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"If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot."

Answers Facts Spots
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"Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians."

People Musician Groups
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"Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for."

Animal Years Events
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"We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change."

Media Culture Use
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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."

Law Insanity Humanity
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"There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history."

Writing Winning Long
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"I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority."

Men Ideas Apes
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"If you do not intend to kill anybody, if you make every effort to not kill and injure anybody, that's all you really can do. You can't stop somebody from walking into a situation, and we really can't be too overly preoccupied with this."

Effort Situation Walking
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