Even among people who have devoted years of their lives fighting to protect the natural world from the predations of capitalism, Daniel McGowan's role in the history of the environmental movement is marginal and obscure. It shouldn't be.

* Greenpeace enters nuclear site, drops smoke flare * Intrusion just days before presidential runoff * France's high use...

We humans are merely passengers on the spaceship Earth. We produce nothing important for a healthy planet, but certainly spare no expense at taking what we need and then some. We are the ultimate planetary narcissists.

While Whale Wars presents a simplistic case of us against them, the noble environmentalists against the evil whalers, the reality, of course, is not so black and white.