Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Paul Franklin Watsonis a marine wildlife conservation and an environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation. He is a citizen of Canada and the United States...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 December 1950
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
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I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.
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I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.
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The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.
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I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.
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You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.
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To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.
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There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
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The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
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The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
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That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.
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Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
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Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
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Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.