There's only one thing worse than sell-outs like Patrick Moore and that is people who have given up. They are intelligent, hard-working and socially adjusted members of the community who have simply given up on the idea of saving the environment.
A friend of mine said the same thing very recently; he stated that there's no way destruction and exploitation in this country, Indonesia, can be averted, it is a "way of life" and it "can't be stopped." When I protested, pointing out that he often takes trips out of the city into the jungles of Sumatra, very much enjoying the environment, I suggested his attitude was very much 'last chance to see' he agreed it was, and that's why he goes there; to see it before it is gone.
In my mind it is impossibly selfish to think like that. For me the worst thing is not even that my children will never see wild apes, exotic birds or old-growth forest, or that creatures such as the Orang Utan will no longer live in the wild, or even that such damage adversely affects the planet. It is that we will have caused the unnecessary destruction of such amazing and diverse creation for our own needs and none of it will ever be seen again.
I, for one, will not sit on the fence and watch that happen.
There's only one thing worse than sell-outs like Patrick Moore and that is people who have given up. They are intelligent, hard-working and socially adjusted members of the community who have simply given up on the idea of saving the environment. 
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