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To: Greenpeace who wrote (37587)	3/10/1999 2:42:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

>>Well, some of those repubican bureacrats just like to put it to those of us who are concened about the environment. I hope her distaste for our cause doesnt cost her health. Greenpeace founder denounces the radicalism of Greenpeace (not to mention spelling): Educating the EPA Vice President Al Gore was ridiculed by the left and right alike after claiming recently that global warming, should there be such a thing, was to blame for an increase in weather-related deaths and even plane crashes. Left-leaning columnist Alexander Cockburn suggested Mr. Gore's hysteria was "scripted for him by enviro-Malthusians from the World Wildlife Fund." It was the WWF, we should point out, that argued logging causes not only climate change, but the extinction of species. "Some 50,000 species of plants and animals disappear from the planet each year," the WWF claimed. Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore, who left that environmental group a dozen or so years ago and now publicly opposes its radicalism, has since challenged the WWF to "name one species" that's become extinct due to logging. Apparently, he's still waiting. We recall these green tales after employees at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency this week were recipients of a four-page information sheet detailing how they -- through their children -- could help the WWF raise money. The lengthy memo, from Barb Pitman of the WWF's education department, was distributed to employees by the EPA's Office of Environmental Education. It deals with the WWF's "Pennies for the Planet" campaign, an annual fund-raiser "that links environmental education with environmental action." What actually happens is children go around their neighborhoods and "raise money" for the WWF, Miss Pitman acknowledges in her memo to the EPA. "If you have lists you'd like kits mailed to, you may send us mailing lists in printed form, mailing lists on labels, or mailing lists in electronic form. We'll make sure the kits get sent," she tells the EPA staff. "If you'd like to distribute kits to educators yourself through your organization, we'd be happy to ship the kits to you or an address you designate. We'll be shipping them out in mid-March," she adds. One EPA staffer who got rid of his four pages of WWF material by handing it to us asked: "Isn't this illegal, or at least unethical?" washtimes.com