Franklin, Andrews, Kramer & Edelstein

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An Excerpt from - Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist

By 1982 Greenpeace had grown into a full-fledged international movement with offices and staff around the world.
We were bringing in $100 million a year in donations and half a dozen campaigns were occurring simultaneously.
During the early 1980s two things happened that altered my perspective on the direction in which environmentalism,
in general, and Greenpeace, in particular, were heading. The first was my introduction to the concept of sustainable
development at a global meeting of environmentalists. The second was the adoption of policies by my fellow Greenpeacers
that I considered extremist and irrational. These two developments would set the stage for my transformation from a
radical activist into a sensible environmentalist.

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At the same time I chose to become less militant and more diplomatic, my Greenpeace colleagues became more
extreme and intolerant of dissenting opinions from within.
The collapse of world communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall during the 1980s added to the trend toward
extremism. The Cold War was over and the peace movement was largely disbanded. The peace movement had been mainly
Western-based and anti-American in its leanings. Many of its members moved into the environmental movement, bringing
with them their neo-Marxist, far-left agendas. To a considerable extent the environmental movement was hijacked by
political and social activists who learned to use green language to cloak agendas that had more to do with anticapitalism
and antiglobalization than with science or ecology

https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/library/docLib/confessions-of-a-greenpeace-dropout.pdf