Moore, Patrick Albert

MOORE, Patrick Albert, ecologist (b 15 June 1947, Port Alice). He grew up in a float camp in QUATSINO SOUND where his father, Bill Moore, was a logger. While doing graduate studies at UBC, he took part in protests against American nuclear testing in the N Pacific that led to the founding of GREENPEACE in 1971. He was president of Greenpeace in 1977–79 and a director until he left the organization in 1986; he felt that it had served its purpose and that the time had come to make change by...

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