Pete Wilkinson grew up in Deptford, south London, in the 50s.
Somehow he got to grammar school and was spat out of the education
system in 1962 with a few GCE 'O' levels and no idea of what to do
with his life. The 60s rock 'n' roll scene, motor scooters and free
love offered a mild distraction but, as a general malcontent, he
drifted from job to job, uncertain of where life would take him. He
was feisty, easy to provoke and had a fierce sense of what decency
and justice should look like, qualities which found their natural
home when he finally found - unlike U2, a band which would
ultimately provide the justification for his jaundiced view of
environmentalists - what he was looking for. Pete helped establish
Friends of the Earth, leaving after suffering three years of the
classism which prevented his natural campaigning flair to flourish,
and then joined Greenpeace UK. He was a co-founding member and
became a central figure in the UK's embryonic green movement. His
friendship with the charismatic father of the modern Greenpeace
phenomenon, the late David Fraser McTaggart, and his naturally
strategic mind helped Wilkinson to the highest positions in the
organisation from where he ran what one journalist called 'some of
the most important and successful environmental campaigns of the
80s'. And they were campaigns that he and his colleagues won:
radioactive waste dumping at sea, whaling, Canadian sealing, the
Orkey seal cull, captive cetaceans, the fur industry, Sellafield:
no company or industry was too big for Greenpeace to take on. Even
Antarctica. After finally falling foul of the growing Greenpeace
hierarchy, Wilkinson was despatched by Greenpeace to Antarctica
where, over six consecutive seasons, their campaign succeeded in
protecting the entire continent from exploitation for 50 years.
This is Wilkinson's story told in his own gritty style and
containing his unabridged Antarctic diaries which build into a
fascinating insight into the Greenpeace world as it was, but as it
is no more. Includes many campaign photographs.
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