In Battle for Biotech Progress, Patrick Moore, founder of Greenpeace, demonstrates how far he’s come:
At the beginning of the modern environmental movement, Ayn Rand published Return of the Primitive, which contained an essay by Peter Schwartz titled “The Anti- Industrial Revolution.”In it, he warned that the new movement’s agenda was anti-science, anti-technology, and anti-human. At the time, he didn’t get a lot of attention from the mainstream media or the public. Environmentalists were often able to produce arguments that sounded reasonable, while doing good deeds like saving whales and making the air and water cleaner.But now the chickens have come home to roost. The environmentalists’ campaign against biotechnology in general, and genetic engineering in particular, has clearly exposed their intellectual and moral bankruptcy. By adopting a zero tolerance policy toward a technology with so many potential benefits for humankind and the environment, they have lived up to Schwartz’s predictions.