Download or read book Quotations from Captain Paul Watson written by Paul Watson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Paul Watson was born on December 2nd, 1950 and raised in an Eastern Canadian fishing village called St. Andrew's-By-The-Sea. He began his life of activism at the age of eleven by freeing animals from trap-lines and destroying leg-hold traps and snares and at the age of 18 he was the youngest founding member of the Greenpeace Foundation.He then majored in communications at Simon Fraser University and worked as an Able Seaman in the Norwegian and Swedish merchant marine and served in the Canadian Coast Guard.He began professional writing as a journalist for the Vancouver weekly underground newspaper, the Georgia Straight contributing from 1969 to the present day. He served as a medic for the American Indian Movement during the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. He founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977 and founded Friends of the Wolf in 1984.He was a national director of the Sierra Club 2003-2006He was officially labeled a pirate by the U.S. 9th Circuit Federal Court judge Alex Kozinski in 2012 although never charged with piracy.He co-founded the Mars Conservation Society and the Church of Biocentrism in 2018.His books include Ocean Warrior, Seal Wars, Cry Wolf!, Earthforce!, Sea Shepherd, Songs from the Southern Ocean, Dealing with climate Change and Stress, Desperate Mythologies: Theology, Ecology and the General Insanity of Humanity and The War That Saved The Whales. This is a book of quotations collected over many years of Captain Paul Waton's career as a Conservationist. Inspiring Words from an Official Pirate and Modern Day Captain Nemo.
Download or read book Captain Paul Watson Interview written by Paul Watson and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain Paul Watson written by Lamya Essemlali and published by FIREFLY BOOKS. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in French under title: Capitaine Paul Watson.
Download or read book Captain Paul Watson Interview written by Paul Watson and published by Edition Faust. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You can take down an individual, you can take down an organization, but you can't destroy a movement." Paul Watson Captain Paul Watson, honored with the Jules Verne Award for his environmental activism in 2012, is a fighter with a clear mission: to protect the world's oceans from illegal exploitation and environmental destruction. "If the oceans die, we die." For decades, Paul Watson has risked his life for the conservation and well-being of marine life. At the age of 27, he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In 1978, the Sea Shepherd became the first ship of the now world-famous fleet with the Jolly Roger flag, modified with a trident and shepherd's crook. In a new expanded edition, including a second interview and numerous extraordinary images from the Sea Shepherd archives, Watson vividly recounts the exciting stages of his unique life, opening up an exclusive insight into his highly politicized arrest in Frankfurt in 2012 and his adventurous escape that sent him on a nerve-wracking journey filled with storms and obstacles.
Download or read book Death of a Whale The Challenge of Anti Whaling Activists and Indigenous Rights written by Captain Paul Watson and published by GroundSwell Books. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON IS NO STRANGER TO CONTROVERSY. But this particular conflict was more personal than most. His latest book is a fascinating and thought-provoking account of what happened when anti-whaling activists found themselves at odds with tribal rights. Conservationists, eco-warriors, whale protectors, and supporters of Indigenous traditions—as well as anyone who simply loves a good story—will find themselves captivated by this tale. DEATH OF A WHALE: The Challenge of Anti-Whaling Activists and Indigenous Rights narrates the events as they unfolded. In 1998, Sea Shepherd began a campaign to protect gray whales from slaughter by members of the Makah tribe of the Pacific Northwest, who had recently invoked cultural entitlements to allow them to practice their ancestral hunting rights. Makah members, conservationists, and non-Indigenous Americans vehemently expressed disparate points of view about whether tribal whaling operations, which had ended almost a century earlier, should be recognized, even when they were not in accord with international Indigenous whaling regulations. This electrifying, real-life adventure story showcases an Indigenous community at odds with itself, governments and media that advance their own agendas, and grassroots organizers who display heroic activism. Highly detailed and documented, the book reveals Captain Watson’s deep and unwavering respect for Indigenous traditions and rights, even when they conflict with his own devotion to the sovereignty of whales. "
Download or read book The Whale Warriors written by Peter Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new afterword by the author, the tenth-anniversary edition of Peter Heller’s “swashbuckling adventure” (Publishers Weekly) takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew whose mission is to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy seas of Antarctica. The Whale Warriors is an adventure story set in the far reaches of the globe. For two months in 2005, journalist Peter Heller was aboard the Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey—a Japanese whaling fleet—through the storms and ice of Antarctica. The little ship is black, flies under a jolly roger, and carries members of the Sea Shepherd Society, a radical environmental group who are willing to die to stop illegal whale hunting. Heller recreates a nail-biting showdown when Captain Watson and his crew attempt to deliberately ram an enormous Japanese whaling ship, trying to tear open its hull with a steel blade called a “Can Opener.” In thirty-five-foot seas, a deadly game of Antarctic chicken begins. But while the ships are far from rescue, the world is watching. Japan threatens to send down defense aircraft and warships, Australia appeals for calm, New Zealand dispatches military surveillance aircraft, the US Office of Naval Intelligence issues a piracy warning, and international media begin to track the developing whale war. As Heller describes the slow, rusting, old Norwegian trawler Farley Mowat and the fast, new six ship whaling fleet of the Japanese, we also learn about the crisis of our oceans, which are on the verge of total ecosystem collapse. The exploitation of endangered whales is emblematic of an over-exploitation of the seas that is now entering its desperate denouement with our own survival in the balance. “A swift kick to any remaining complacency about the plight of our oceans” (National Geographic Adventure), The Whale Warriors is “two parts high seas swashbuckle and one part inconvenient truth” (Surfer).
Download or read book Seal Wars written by Paul Watson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seal Wars: Twenty-Five Years on the Front Lines is the bold and sprawling memoir of Canadian rebel Paul Watson. To some a hero, to others a 'fokking seal-loving piece of merde,' Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson recounts his 25 years on the front lines in the war to stop the slaughter of the Canadian harp seal. The memoir begins with an incident in 1995 when Watson was holed up in a hotel in the Magdalen Islands with actor Martin Sheen. An angry mob of sealers stormed the hotel and Watson had to be taken out by police and airlifted to safety. Watson then remembers the childhood experiences that shaped his adult consciousness. He runs through a history of the seal hunt, and moves into the campaigns he has fought in, starting in 1976 with a Greenpeace crew off Laborador, including forays onto the ice floes with Brigitte Bardot, Farley Mowat and Pierce Brosnan. Captain Paul Watson grew up on Canada's east coast. He was a founding member of Greenpeace, is an active supporter of North American native peoples and a veteran of Wounded Knee. He is the founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. And he has been the captain of a succession of ships dedicated to the protection of the world oceans, most recently Whales Forever.
Download or read book Earth Spirit Healthy Planet written by Fred Hageneder and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthy Planet offers a clear and concise overview of the global ecological crisis that humanity has brought upon itself, and what options we still have to save a benevolent climate, to restore biodiversity, reduce pollution, and heal the ecosphere of this planet, including ourselves. Since well before the Covid-19 crisis the United Nations have been emphasizing that only a healthy planet can support healthy people. The degradation and pollution of nature also poisons our own bodies. Climate breakdown and the global loss of biodiversity also threaten the human species. But what is a "healthy planet"? How does it work, how much do we disrupt the planet’s life support systems, and what changes are overdue? We have all the necessary means at our disposal, though just patching up the worst symptoms won’t do anymore, we have to address the underlying causes, including our habits, values, and paradigms. We are at a crucial crossroads, and time is running short. If we act fast enough, a dignified and truly sustainable healthy future awaits.
Download or read book Sea Shepherd written by Paul Watson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1981-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of British Columbia conservationist who is determined to stop the hunting of seals and whales, and used his own boat, Sea Shepherd, to do so.
Download or read book Clarity in Time written by Margaret Hepworth and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your life story was re-told would you be able to piece together the meaning that had always been there? Rosie ODea, 31, was born to make a difference. She knows it; she feels it. Yet now on a country road, her life hovers in an ethereal dimension between life and death. We all know the saying your life fl ashes before your eyes. Well it happenedto me. I watched myself relive my life. But something strange was also happening. Mandela, Einstein, a Captain, a Surgeon? Inexplicably, moments in other peoples lives were flashing amidst my own. And over and over I heard a voice, If only they had listened. Rosie finds wisdoms embodied in the most unexpected places: Her best friend Holloway; a phrase wafting across a holy mountain peak; in ancient flowers and spiraling shells; Grandmas journal; an Egyptian mosque; a bustling market place; the quiet vibrance of Lake Mungo; a boy with aspergers; a Cambodian temple; deep within; and in the secret experiences of others. Yet amongst the revelations theres confusion. Rosie has fallen in love with a man who cannot return her love and it is tearing her apart. A young woman with an emerging psychic talent, Rosie will find herself having to make a heart-wrenching decision no-one could have predicted. We all have moments of clarity; Rosies are extraordinary. Clarity in Time shines with quirky humor, tender sadness, sexuality, spirituality, a social conscience and profound insights into the human psyche. It speaks of taking action, enacting solutions and finding your own freedom and clarity in time. Right here and now we have the ability to become the most co-operative and connected of all the generations of humanity over time. Those of the past and of the present have always spoken of future possibilities.
Download or read book Saving Mother Ocean written by Steve Andrews and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’ve all seen the news of dead and dying whales, and the alarming amounts of plastic pollution washing up on beaches or floating on the tides. The oceans are in very great danger for many reasons, and it is not just plastic waste, which is bad enough. Overfishing, acidification, coral bleaching, nuclear waste, seabed mining, military testing, and climate change, are taking a very heavy toll on marine creatures of all types, from tiny plankton to the massive whales. The eponymous Dead Zones are aptly named. Many marine creatures are in danger of extinction. Life on this planet depends on healthy oceans. We depend on healthy oceans. This book takes a look at the threats to marine life, and what is being done to save the seas. It is a call to action to save Mother Ocean. The author explains how he became personally motivated to do what he could. As a singer and songwriter he wrote songs and came up with the idea for Ocean Aid concerts. Now he has written the book you are holding. He hopes to inspire you to think about what you can do. We all need to help save the seas.
Download or read book The Dark Side of the Left written by Richard J. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political correctness, idealizing the oppressed, and an affinity for authoritarian and charismatic leaders are all parts of what Ellis calls "the dark side of the left."
Download or read book Earth Warrior written by David B. Morris and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Watson has devoted his life to protecting our endangered oceans. Here is a balanced look at the world's environmental Robin Hood, an eco-hero for our time.
Download or read book The Buck Never Got Here written by Kendal Hemphill and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how to use a compass? Or build a canoe? Or properly clean a gun, or cast a flyrod, or shoot a muzzle-loading rifle? Well, keep wondering. You won't learn any of that stuff from this book. Kendal Hemphill has been called a cross between Dave Barry and Pat McManus. No subject is too delicate, no politician too insulated, no topic too sensitive to be speared with the arrow of cynicism and barbequed on the backyard pit of sarcasm. If you enjoy camping, hunting, fishing, lying, and passing the buck, this book is for you. If your tastes tend more toward wall-to-wall carpet, central air-conditioning, and room service, this book is for you too. Mark Twain said, 'Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all.' At times like these, laughter really is the best medicine. Hemphill is here to pass out the placebos. 'Down to earth and grounded are two of the most praiseworthy compliments one can receive. Kendal Hemphill deserves both of these compliments and verily reeks of this aboriginal down and dirty connection to the good mother earth. Take a breather and enjoy Kendal Hemphill.' —Ted Nugent
Download or read book From Language to Creative Writing written by Philip Seargeant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed by The Open University, this textbook offers an innovative introduction to the study of the English language and the practices, skills and strategies of creative writing. For anyone studying English Language or Creative Writing at tertiary level or in higher education, or for developing writers and those interested in the nature of linguistic creativity, it offers a uniquely integrated approach. Readers will better understand the structure and uses of language and be able to use a full range of strategies in crafting and developing their own writing. Offering a detailed investigation of language, the authors examine both everyday use and examples from literature and the media to illustrate the diverse ways in which language is used in a variety of social contexts. They consider accent and dialect, standard and non-standard English, how language use varies according to its purpose, and the relationship it has to identity. Interwoven with the study of language are creative writing chapters that introduce strategies for the reader to draw upon in their own writing. Practical writing exercises develop the ability to select and shape language for different effects, create 'voice' in a story, and utilise patterns of sound in the composition of poetry. This unique textbook will develop a better appreciation of language in use, as well as the skills to craft writing in distinctive ways.
Download or read book Ice Ghosts written by Paul Watson and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the greatest mystery of Arctic exploration—and the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge that led to the shipwreck's recent discovery. Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Franklin Expedition—whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered and the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumours of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones—until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages.
Download or read book Recipe for Survival written by Dana Hunnes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, easy-to-understand book by dietitian Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes on how to improve our own and our planet's health.
