Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, and now a positive environmentalist, has a book for sale, Green Spirit: Trees Are The Answer which...

delivers a powerful message about forests that runs contrary to much of the environmental movement’s current thinking. A personal essay in words and photographs, it gives us new eyes with which to see the land, exploring the beauty, biodiversity and spirit of forests growing back after logging.

With logical argument based on facts and science, Patrick Moore demonstrates that rather than reducing our consumption of wood, we should be planting more trees and using more renewable wood in order to reduce our reliance on non-renewable fuels and materials. By linking forests, biodiversity conservation, and climate change into a unified understanding of the global environment he shows that the apparent logic of saving the forests by cutting fewer trees and using less wood is actually an anti-environmental proposition.

Moore’s message is based on personal experience - as a member of a family that has been logging on northern Vancouver Island for three generations - and as a lifelong environmentalist who was a co-founder and long-time leader of Greenpeace.

It passes the soundness test: the Adam Smith Institute has lamented the fact that those who we call "negative environmentalists" are against solving environmental problems by planting trees.