Earth Warrior: Overboard with Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
The story of one of Watson's many voyages bent on disrupting business as usual on the high seas.
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Driven by a need to address the issues surrounding the global extinction of ocean habitat and wildlife, Paul Watson founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977 to take the battle over driftnetting and whale hunting to the high seas. Earth Warrior describes David Morris's journey with Watson on an anti-driftnet campaign in the North Pacific, where the author encounters action and adventure and gets a close-up view of Watson, both as a person and as one of the world's most committed environmentalists. Publishers Weekly For 20 years, Paul Watson, quixotic founder/leader of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has led a fight for the seas, pitting his decommissioned 90-foot Coast Guard cutter against industries that use exploding harpoons and indiscriminate, 35-mile-long drift nets. Although it evolves slowly, Morris's portrait of Watson is a fascinating one of a confrontational, committed and courageous man who takes credit for saving thousands of whales, hundreds of thousands of dolphins and millions of seals. Part of that portrait involves Morris's personal account of a sea hunt with Watson, a high-seas drama of a search-and-ram operation in which Watson chases away befuddled Japanese trawlers. Seeing drift-netting as strip-mining the oceans, Watson abides no mewling bystanders. He rams drift-netter ships and puts their captains on the defensive. (Charges against him are usually dismissed to avoid public awareness of the business.) Although a founder of Greenpeace, Watson split from that organization over what Morris calls his use of``forceful nonviolence,'' as Watson does not believe the destruction of inanimate objects to be violence. If any words typify Paul Watson, they're his own, when he tells a critic: ``We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.'' Photos not seen by PW. (Mar.)
PrefaceCh. 1The Appointment1Ch. 2Proteus Rising17Ch. 3Feds34Ch. 4Un-Greenpeace51Ch. 5Television and Anesthesia69Ch. 6Dead Oceans?86Ch. 7Monkeywrenches105Ch. 8The Winnipeg Whore120Ch. 9Squid135Ch. 10Origin of Prosperity151Ch. 11Conan and the Nagual167Ch. 12What to Do185Epilogue202
\ Publishers Weekly\ - Publisher's Weekly\ For 20 years, Paul Watson, quixotic founder/leader of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has led a fight for the seas, pitting his decommissioned 90-foot Coast Guard cutter against industries that use exploding harpoons and indiscriminate, 35-mile-long drift nets. Although it evolves slowly, Morris's portrait of Watson is a fascinating one of a confrontational, committed and courageous man who takes credit for saving thousands of whales, hundreds of thousands of dolphins and millions of seals. Part of that portrait involves Morris's personal account of a sea hunt with Watson, a high-seas drama of a search-and-ram operation in which Watson chases away befuddled Japanese trawlers. Seeing drift-netting as strip-mining the oceans, Watson abides no mewling bystanders. He rams drift-netter ships and puts their captains on the defensive. (Charges against him are usually dismissed to avoid public awareness of the business.) Although a founder of Greenpeace, Watson split from that organization over what Morris calls his use of``forceful nonviolence,'' as Watson does not believe the destruction of inanimate objects to be violence. If any words typify Paul Watson, they're his own, when he tells a critic: ``We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.'' Photos not seen by PW. (Mar.)\ \
