Environmentalists have resorted to ‘making up issues’

The entire environmental movement has deviated from its noble beginnings and is now beholden "to the extreme left" according to former Greenpeace Canada president Patrick Moore. Mr Moore said while some groups, like Extinction Rebellion, function as a "cult" even mainstream environment groups like Greenpeace are pushing "phony" campaigns. "Before you know it, as it happened with Greenpeace, it turns into a racket," he told Sky News. "By the mid 80s, we had basically addressed all the really pressing environmental issues of air and water pollution, and many of the other issues. "Now they just make up issues, like the 'War on plastics' is completely phony, and so is the GMO scare, and so is the worry about radiation from nuclear power plants." "It's all completely irrational... I think the environmental movement is so far off into the extreme left politically it isn't an environmental movement anymore."

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