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Mr. Mindbomb<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is a biography of Greenpeace co-founder Robert Lorne Hunter (1941-2005), told by his friends and family. The book was edited by Bob\u2019s wife, 1970s Greenpeace organizer Bobbi Hunter. Scores of campaign and media colleagues contribute accounts of his life. A picture emerges of a man who deeply touched people\u2019s hearts, inspired commitment, helped give birth to the modern ecology movement, and did it all with extraordinary humility and humour.<\/p>\n\n

A Scots-Irish French-Canadian in London    <\/h2>\n\n

Greenpeace activist Dr. Myron MacDonald\u00a0<\/strong>traces Hunter\u2019s family heritage to the Hunterston forests of Scotland, west of Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde. The epigram from the family crest, \u201cCursum perficio<\/em>,\u201d or \u201cjourney complete,\u201d implies \u201cI accomplish my purpose.\u201d Bob\u2019s brother Don tells of their father, who one day stopped coming home, their modest childhood on the Manitoba prairies raised by their French-Canadian mother, Augustine Bernadette, and of Bob reading the newspaper to his mother after she lost her sight. He recounts their mother telling long, rambling stories and how Bob acquired the art of the raconteur. \u201cThe big difference was that Bob\u2019s stories were funny,\u201d Don recalls, \u201cinteresting, and more to the point. He learned the art of storytelling by improving on Mom\u2019s style.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Bob Hunter became a writer as a child, creating his own illustrated books. He set off at age 19 to see the world, packing the typewriter that his mother had given him. Canadian-British physicist Walt Patterson describes meeting Hunter in London in 1962, hanging out in pubs with aspiring writers and living the bohemian life. \u201cBob was a virtuoso storyteller,\u201d Patterson recalls, \u201cwith a vast repertoire, a rich and resonant speaking voice, and impeccable timing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

In London, Hunter met Zoe Rahin, two years older and active in the peace movement. Zoe introduced Hunter to philosopher Bertrand Russell, a life-changing encounter, and Hunter followed Zoe and the renowned philosopher into the pacifist movement. In turn, Hunter inspired Walt Patterson to use his physics background to support the peace and ecology movements. In 1970, Patterson edited the UK\u2019s first environmental magazine, and in 1972 he represented Friends of the Earth at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. \u201cBefore long, I was a full-time and high-profile environmental campaigner,\u201d writes Patterson, \u201call because Bob had triggered the spark \u2026 not only the information and insight he provided but also the burning ardour and headlong exhilaration he brought with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Bob and Zoe married and moved to Canada, where Hunter worked at the Winnipeg Tribune<\/em>, and their son Conan and daughter Justine were born. Justine Hunter, now a seasoned reporter at Canada\u2019s Globe and Mail<\/em>, picks up the story there, adding observations from her older brother Conan. She recounts a 1967 trip to Mexico in a Volkswagen van. On a remote desert road, they were pulled over by Mexican police, who concluded that the \u201cpenniless gringo in bare feet,\u201d was a poor prospect for a fine or bribe. On the way home, everyone sick with dysentery, US border guards pulled apart the van looking for drugs. Conan\u2019s last memory of Mexico was \u201cthe chrome trim of the headlights sitting on the dusty ground.\u201d Zoe grew weary of Winnipeg winters and fled to Vancouver, and Bob soon followed. In 1968, Hunter published his first book, the coming-of-age novel Erebus<\/em>, nominated for the Canadian Governor General\u2019s Award, boosting his reputation in Canadian journalism circles. Justine explains that on the west coast Hunter \u201creinvented himself. The former clean-cut newspaper reporter from Winnipeg now sported long hair and a beard, promoted on billboards as the Vancouver Sun<\/em>\u2019s counterculture columnist.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Greenpeace and Bob Hunter<\/h2>\n\n

Justine recalls how their modest East Vancouver home became a meeting place for Vancouver pacifists opposing US nuclear testing in Alaska. Conan recalls that, \u201cNot only were they going to change the world, but they were forming the club that would do it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Rod Marining, working as a copy boy at the Vancouver Sun <\/em>met Hunter in the newspaper lunchroom, and they became activist allies. Marining\u2019s group Rent-a-Demo staged protests for worthy causes. \u201cBob was rising in respect and popularity,\u201d recalls Marining. \u201cI started to notice young people buying the newspaper and going right to his column. They had found an advocate in the Vancouver Sun<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

In 1971, Hunter published The Storming of the Mind<\/em>, in which he introduced his idea of the \u201cmind bomb.\u201d Activism, he proposed, was not an \u201carmed struggle\u201d such as the storming images of the Bastille that will \u201cexplode in people\u2019s heads \u2026 and change perception\u201d, but rather a \u201ccommunications struggle,\u201d with the media as a \u201cdelivery system [for] mindbombs.\u201d This idea would become a cornerstone of Greenpeace activist philosophy.  <\/p>\n\n

\"Bob
Bob Hunter at work on his typewriter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

In the Vancouver Sun<\/em>, Hunter wrote a column suggesting that the underground nuclear tests in Alaska might cause a tsunami that could hit the coast of Canada, and he made a placard that read \u201cDon\u2019t Make a Wave.\u201d Irving and Dorothy Stowe<\/a> \u2014 Quaker pacifists and US expatriates \u2014 proposed the group call itself  the \u201cDon\u2019t Make a Wave Committee,\u201d and they registered the organization as a Canadian charity. When Irving Stowe ended a meeting with the salutation \u201cPeace,\u201d ecology activist Bill Darnell added quietly, \u201cMake it a green<\/em> peace,\u201d including the ecological crisis and creating a new image that would soon reverberate around the world. The group borrowed a Quaker strategy, proposed by Marie Bohlen, to sail a boat into the nuclear test site, and in 1971, Hunter joined this voyage, reporting for the Vancouver Sun<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n

I met Hunter at the press club and began working with the peace and ecology group, which in 1972 changed its name to the \u201cGreenpeace Foundation.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>After successful campaigns against US and French nuclear testing, Hunter wanted to stage a global scale environmental action, and we had begun to think about how to publicise forests, rivers, the toxins exposed by Rachel Carson, and the plight of other species. The big idea came to us from a cetologist from New Zealand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Paul Spong picks up the story here, telling how he approached Hunter in the spring of 1973 with the idea to \u201csave the whales\u201d using Greenpeace direct action and mindbomb tactics. \u201cWe met around the pool table at the back of the Cecil Hotel pub,\u201d Spong recalls, \u201cdrank 25-cent beers, and plotted.\u201d He tells of taking Hunter to the Vancouver Aquarium and introducing him to the Orca whale Skana, who playfully \u201cseized Bob\u2019s head in her mouth.\u201d This experience \u2014 feeling both the power and gentleness of the whale \u2014 left Bob inspired and thoroughly committed. In 1975, we launched the first Greenpeace global ecology action, confronted Russian whalers in the North Pacific, and circulated the photographs and film around the world. Greenpeace had become a global ecology movement, and four years later, in 1979, we formed Greenpeace International, which now includes national and regional organisations<\/a> in over 55 countries.<\/p>\n\n

\"Bob
Bob Hunter, places his hand on the stopped Soviet harpoon ship in the Pacific near Hawaii.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Still communicating<\/h2>\n\n

In this book, Mr. Mindbomb<\/em>, campaign colleagues from around the world \u2014 Carlie Trueman in Canada, Czech sailor George Korotva, Australian ecologist Chris Pash, and dozens more \u2014 tell of their adventures with Bob Hunter during Greenpeace campaigns. Bob never left Greenpeace in his heart, but he stepped away after the formation of a global organization and returned to journalism. Other friends and colleagues pick up the story after Bob\u2019s Greenpeace career.  Special education teacher Linda Weinberg tells of how she recruited Bob to help stop an LNG plant in Canada, and how he not only devised a protest plan and wrote media stories in support, but how he made the work fun and inspiring. The LNG plant was never built. <\/p>\n\n

Media pioneer Moses Znaimer, a \u201cJewish refugee \u2026 born in Tajikistan,\u201d and founder of Canada\u2019s CityTV and scores of popular television shows, channels, and stations, hired Hunter to be \u201cthe world\u2019s first ecology reporter.\u201d He describes Hunter as \u201ca philosopher of depth and foresight \u2026 demonstrating a crazy combination of recklessness and courage. \u2026 Bob Hunter didn\u2019t have to hector or browbeat or command, because he could persuade, and what he achieved is far greater than being the founder of a company.\u201d Znaimer writes, \u201d Hunter galvanized millions in defence of the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Janine Ferretti, a Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University, tells how Bob helped her husband lobby politicians for sound ecological policies. She tells how, after Bob\u2019s passing, that she began using his 2002 global warming book, 2030: Thermageddon<\/em>, with her students. \u201cBob cut through the complexity of climate science and the noise of climate politics,\u201d she writes. \u201cWith his trademark of hard facts, flawless logic and effortless clarity, Bob Hunter asked a new generation to take a stand and to act \u2026 I was moved to hear my students reflect on his writing, and I witnessed that, years after his death, Bob is still communicating and inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Elizabeth May, former executive director of Sierra Club Canada and Canada\u2019s first Member of Parliament from the Green Party, writes an Afterword, and environmental activist and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson writes an Introduction to the book. Editor Bobbi Hunter describes her husband\u2019s message as: \u201cFollow your heart and start walking in any direction, change will happen \u2026  any single person can make a difference. Just do something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\"Bob
Bob and Bobbi Hunter on board the James Bay entering San Francisco Harbour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Bob\u2019s daughter, Emily, embraces the sad but noble task of describing her father\u2019s passing on May 2, 2005, \u201cwith his family surrounding him just as he\u2019d wished \u2026 We each ceremonially took turns speaking to him and telling him what our love for him meant and gave him permission to let go of this plane of existence. My father taught me a lot about the macro stuff that matters \u2013 the planet\u2019s well-being, our collective well-being, independent thinking, and interdependent relationships \u2013 but most of all he taught me to love.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Fourteen years later, her first son was born on May 2, the anniversary of her father\u2019s death. She and her husband Ryan Dyment named the boy Phoenix. \u201cThe world we know today is dying,\u201d writes Emily. \u201cBut in that same breath, a new world is being born (or reborn). I don\u2019t believe my father is still here. Instead, I believe my father\u2019s spirit had to pass from this realm, perhaps into another. Yet I can\u2019t deny that there is something here \u2013 something bigger that my father\u2019s spirit was a part of, that is instilled in me, and now is instilled in my son.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

I last spoke to Hunter by phone, from his hospital bed in Mexico, where he was fighting the cancer that finally took him. He made a comment that still reminds me of his devotion to realism, his upbeat spirit, and his uncanny ability to discover the humour in everything: \u201cHey, Rex,\u201d he exclaimed cheerfully, \u201cI found out today that my blood type sums up my life\u2019s philosophy!\u201d Yeah, what\u2019s that, Bob?, I asked. \u201cB-positive!\u201d <\/p>\n\n

\"Bob
Bob Hunter plays a flute on the deck of the Phyllis Cormack during the 1975 whale campaign. Off the Canadian coast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\n\n

Mr. Mindbomb: Eco-Hero and Greenpeace Co-founder Bob Hunter<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Edited by Bobbi Hunter<\/p>\n\n

Rocky Mountain Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n

April 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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