Writing in the April 22, 2008 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore described an organization that had lost its way by abandoning sound science in favor of a distorted form of entrepreneurial activism.

Wrote Moore: "At first, many of the causes we championed, such as opposition to nuclear testing and protection of whales, stemmed from our scientific knowledge of nuclear physics and marine biology. But after six years as one of the five directors of Greenpeace International, I observed that none of my fellow directors had any formal science education. They were either political activists or environmental entrepreneurs."