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May 2 of this year marks 15 years since the passing of Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter. Although Hunter remains legendary within Greenpeace lore, readers may not know about his life outside of Greenpeace or the social-change philosophy that inspired his ecological strategy. <\/p>\n\n

\"Activists
Rex Weyler, John Cormack, and Bob Hunter on board the Phyllis Cormack. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Ron Precious<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Hunter was born on October 13, 1941 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, the French district of Winnipeg in Canada. Young Bob rarely saw his war-veteran father, and then one day he was gone. Curiosity about his absent father\u2019s war experience led Hunter to World War II books, and these books inspired the young man to write his own fantasy adventures. <\/p>\n\n

The writer<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
\"Bob
Bob Hunter at work on his typewriter on the very first Greenpeace voyage. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Robert Keziere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

By the age of 14, Bob had filled ten thick notebooks with handwritten science-fiction stories. His mother bought him an Underwood typewriter for his fifteenth birthday, his most treasured possession. He wrote a 75-page story called \u201cThe Long Twilight,\u201d in which a boy is kidnapped by a flying saucer and ends up alone in the universe. Twenty years later, on Greenpeace ships, Bob still pecked at the typewriter with two fingers; the fastest two-finger typist I\u2019ve ever met. <\/p>\n\n

At 17, Bob wrote \u201cAfter the Bomb,\u201d a futurist novel about a post-nuclear-holocaust civilization. He quit high school and left Winnipeg with his beloved typewriter to see the world. He made it as far as Vancouver, lived on hot dogs and water in a skid row hotel, began a coming-of-age novel, ran out of money, and hitchhiked back to Winnipeg. \u201cThe world\u2019s shortest world tour,\u201d he would later recall.<\/p>\n\n

While working as a copy boy at the Winnipeg Tribune<\/em>, an editor asked, \u201cWho wants a byline?\u201d Hunter raced across the newsroom and stood at attention. \u201cHunter,\u201d said the editor. \u201cOf course.\u201d The assignment, a skydiving story, required that he leap from an airplane, which he did, but on landing he seriously injured his back. Decades later, Hunter would describe his chronic back pain as, \u201cmy reminder of the karmic consequences of ego.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

At 20, he travelled to Paris and London, where he began what would be his first published novel, Erebus<\/em>, a searing, dark farce about finding love while working at an abattoir. In London, he met Zoe Rahim, a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Hunter\u2019s Bohemian writer life path turned sharply towards politics. Zoe took him to Speaker\u2019s Corner, where he heard Bertrand Russell expound on pacifism, and to the historic 1963 peace march to Aldermaston. <\/p>\n\n

They married, flew to Winnipeg, where their children, Conan and Justine, were born, and then to Vancouver, where Bob got a job at The Province<\/em>, as a copy boy. When Erebus<\/em> was published and earned a Governor General\u2019s Award nomination, Hunter moved up to news reporter at the Vancouver Sun<\/em>. When the editor ran a contest for a vacant columnist job, Bob won and began writing his own column.  <\/p>\n\n

I arrived in Vancouver from the US as a war resister and got a job as journalist and photographer at The North Shore News<\/em>. Bob Hunter\u2019s columns seemed to me like the most interesting writing in Vancouver, so I phoned him, and we met at the Press Club, a small, unadorned pub on Granville Street. We arrived around 4pm and closed the pub down after midnight. Bob was a fascinating conversationalist, who listened as well as he spoke. He appeared brilliant. We shared a passion for advocacy journalism, peace activism, and the emerging science of ecology.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cEcology\u2019s the thing\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
\"\"
James Bay crew tracks the Soviet whalers; Bob Hunter points out ship movements on the chart with crew. From left: Michael Manoloson, David Garrick (Walrus), Michael Bailey, Bob Hunter, Susi Leger, Paul Spong, Lance Cowan. North Pacific, between Mexico and Hawaii. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Rex Weyler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

It is hard to imagine now, but in the late 1960s and early 70s, ecology was still a radical idea. There was no ecology movement, as there is today, no environment ministers, no ecology field trips in high schools, or courses in universities.  <\/p>\n\n

Bob had sailed on the first Greenpeace campaign (the group was still called \u201cThe Don\u2019t Make a Wave Committee then) to protest the US nuclear test in Alaska, a tactic borrowed from the Quakers. Greenpeace was launching a second campaign against French nuclear testing. We had already learned that strontium-90, a radioactive by-product of the nuclear bomb tests, was appearing in the deciduous teeth of children around the world. This realization provided a key link between the peace movement and ecology.<\/p>\n\n

Bob had written an analysis of cultural change, and ecology, \u201cThe Enemies of Anarchy\u201d. The \u201creal anarchists,\u201d he believed, were militarized elites, who ran selfishly about the planet, ignoring the laws of nature, devastating environments. The \u201cenemies\u201d of this institutionalized anarchy were the advocates for a new consciousness, for peace, unity, and ecology. <\/p>\n\n

The necessary changes would not come from the political process, which was too slow and corrupted. Bob proposed that violent revolution \u201caccomplishes nothing, except a changing of the guard.\u201d Violence \u201cdiverts us from the real struggle, which is to attain a higher level of consciousness.\u201d From Betty Friedan and the feminist writers, Bob had realized that the new consciousness would be more sensual than intellectual.<\/p>\n\n

\"Tour
Bob Hunter addresses the crowd at the Greenpeace send-off event, Jericho Beach. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Rex Weyler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\u201cEcology is the thing,\u201d Bob said. This new consciousness, he believed, arose from understanding natural relationships. \u201cIn nature,\u201d Bob quoted from Rachel Carson\u2019s Silent Spring<\/em>, \u201cnothing exists alone.\u201d The peace and civil rights movements recognized the whole human family, but this \u201cwhole\u201d did not stop with the human community. We are all part of a much more fundamental ecological community. Furthermore, the necessary revolution is a spiritual journey because the Earth is sacred, and our relationships with all Earth\u2019s creatures are sacred relationships.  <\/p>\n\n

In November 1969, the Cuyahoga River that runs through Cleveland, Ohio caught on fire due to massive chemical and oil pollution. \u201cThe rivers are burning,\u201d I recall Bob shaking his head. \u201cIt\u2019s Biblical. Humanity won\u2019t endure a slow evolution of awareness.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

From the first time we met, Bob and I agreed that global society needed an ecology movement, and we spent the next decade together trying to make that happen. <\/p>\n\n

Paul Shepard<\/a> had described ecology as the \u201csubversive science.\u201d An honest understanding of ecology would change everything about human society. It was going to change our art, psychology, politics, science, and public discourse. Writers such as Carson, Shepard, Paul Ehrlich, Donella Meadows, Arne Naess, Gregory Bateson, and others were our mentors, calling for change. Someone had to make it happen, quickly, on a grand scale.<\/p>\n\n

Mind Bombs<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
\"Bob
Bob Hunter, places his hand on the stopped Soviet harpoon ship in the Pacific near Hawaii. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Rex Weyler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

When I met Hunter, he had just written his second non-fiction book, Storming of the Mind<\/em>. Bob had been reading Canadian media analyst Marshall McLuhan, who noted that electronic media (television and radio in those days) had converted the world into a \u201cglobal village,\u201d in which people could communicate from previously isolated regions, creating a \u201cunified field of experience.\u201d From McLuhan, Hunter had learned to think of the electronic media as a global nervous system, a \u201cdelivery system\u201d for ideas.  <\/p>\n\n

Thus, Bob believed, it was not necessary or effective to think of revolution as an armed struggle. \u201cRevolution these days,\u201d he said, \u201cis a communications struggle, a war of images. Instead of storming the Bastille,\u201d he said,\u201d we\u2019re storming the minds of millions of people. Instead of lobbing bullets and bombs, were lobbing mind bombs, revolutionary images that will explode in people\u2019s heads.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

To create an ecology movement, then, we had to come up with images that would circulate the globe, images that would inspire people to recognize their fundamental ecological nature, their kinship with every living creature on Earth. <\/p>\n\n

We staged actions around Vancouver, blocking toxic drain pipes into the Fraser River, and so forth, but the big idea that captured our imaginations came from cetacean researcher, Dr. Paul Spong in 1972: Save the whales! From that day forward, we formulated plans to take a boat into the Pacific, find the Russian and Japanese whaling fleets, blockade them, and record the confrontation on film for the world media. <\/p>\n\n

Two-and-a-half years later, on April 27, 1975, we launched the 80-foot halibut boat, the Phyllis Cormack<\/em>, Greenpeace V<\/em>, from Vancouver, and in June we clashed with Russian whalers off the coast of California. The rest is Greenpeace history.  <\/p>\n\n

Latrine Officer<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
\"Bob
Bob Hunter on board the James Bay during the 1976 whale campaign. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Rex Weyler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Bob often mocked himself, and the \u201chokus pokus\u201d stuff, but he was deeply spiritual about ecology. Bob and I shared a passion for Buddhism (compassion for all sentient beings) and Taoism (nature as a model for human action). Bob believed that awareness itself was curative. With a deeper awareness of one\u2019s own organic nature, a person could let the organism take over,without interfering, like the Taoists, trusting our instinctive wisdom to make decisions. <\/p>\n\n

By 1976, Greenpeace had become famous. Money and support flooded in, and that changed everything. One day, during the second whale campaign, aboard the minesweeper the James Bay<\/em>, christened Greenpeace VII<\/em>, I watched Bob on the forward deck, alone, gripping a halyard, staring into the gray void of the sea. He wore the same white wool sweater and sandals he\u2019d worn for weeks, but now a long scrub-brush dangled from his belt. <\/p>\n\n

The pressure of holding the centre of this expanding movement and competing egos had driven him to the edge of sanity. The crush for a piece of the action, a spot on the crew, access to the budget, or for a share of the media notoriety had transformed a small cadre of ecology activists into something akin to a touring rock band. <\/p>\n\n

Twenty Greenpeace offices now operated around the world. Even with supply lines and communication lines intact, which ours were not, the forward motion of a social movement can flounder on the delicacies of administering relationships. <\/p>\n\n

\"Bob
Bob Hunter with Greenpeace pet iguana Fido, during the 1976 whale campaign. \u00a9 Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Bob\u2019s natural style was to include everyone. Yet, Bob, at the hub of an expanding movement, and not prone to authoritarian rule, suffered exhaustion and private anguish. We had been called \u201ccrazy\u201d by more than one observer, but most of our antics were all in fun. The mystical side of Greenpeace did not imply a cult or collection of psychotics. We understood the importance of having a political strategy, a clear message, and a skilled team. But we also appreciated the value of a good myth and a good laugh. <\/p>\n\n

The unique blend that had become Greenpeace \u2013 ecology, media awareness, spirituality, humour, and sea-going direct action \u2013 grew from a balance of myth-making and realism. However, by 1976, Bob appeared to be burning out like a meteor racing through the thick political atmosphere within the burgeoning organization. <\/p>\n\n

His apparent madness on board the ship, however, concealed a method. Bob took seriously the advice from his mentor, the poet Allen Ginsberg, regarding power: \u201cLet it go.\u201d As a theatrical retort to the crush for power on the ship, and within Greenpeace in general, Bob had assigned himself the role of ship\u2019s \u201clatrine officer\u201d and took to wearing the latrine brush, which now dangled from his belt as he shuffled about the ship. He could be found each morning in the latrine, cheerfully scrubbing away at the sinks and toilet bowls. To some, this was pure delirium, but his latrine officer act was a little internal mindbomb, not madness. \u201cDon\u2019t take yourself too seriously,\u201d was the message.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"
Bob and I in 2004. Bob is wearing his \u201ceco-admiral\u201d suit that a supporter made for him in 1976. \u00a9 Myron McDonald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Bob inspired people around him to contribute, made others feel essential. He was a natural leader, but not really cut out for internal politics. In 1977 he retired from Greenpeace to a rural life with his wife Bobbi and their son Will. Canadian journalism gladly took him back. Bob knew how to light up a public audience.<\/p>\n\n

Time<\/em> magazine later named Hunter as one of the \u201cEco-Heroes\u201d of the 20th century. In 1991, he won the Canadian Governor General\u2019s Award for his book \u201cOccupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past<\/em>\u201c. <\/p>\n\n

In 1998, doctors diagnosed Bob with prostate cancer and on May 2, 2005 he passed on. His ashes were scattered in northern Canada near the Arctic, at Tortuga Bay in the Galapagos Islands, and in Antarctica by his daughter Emily during the 2006 Sea Shepherd campaign against whaling. He is survived by his wife Bobbi; his four children Emily, Will, Conan, and Justine; and by a grateful Greenpeace organization, which owes to Hunter many of its fundamental principles and vision. <\/p>\n\n

\n\n

Links to Bob\u2019s books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n

Hunter, Robert; \u201cErebus,\u201d 1968, McClelland and Stewart<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

Hunter, Robert, \u201cThe Enemies of Anarchy: A Gestalt Approach to Change,\u201d 1970, McClelland-Stewart; Viking<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Hunter, Robert; \u201cThe Storming of the Mind: Inside the Consciousness Revolution,\u201d 1971, McClelland and Stewart; Doubleday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Hunter, Robert; \u201cWarriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement,\u201d 1979, McClelland and Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Hunter, Robert; \u201cOccupied Canada,\u201d 1991, McClelland and Stewart<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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