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On the recordJune 18, 2012
In fact, Patrick Moore, a founding member of Greenpeace, once said in an interview, "The environmental movement abandoned science and logic somewhere in the mid-1980s just as mainstream society was adopting all of the more reasonable items on the environmental agenda."
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

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Duncan cites Moore's criticism of the environmental movement's shift away from reason.

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