Greenpeace: Creating a Greener and More Peaceful World

14. What are the goals of the environmental justice movement, and why are they relevant to sustainability?

Generally, Greenpeace International believes that the environment can be protected by changing the way people understand the world. “ It aims to influence public understanding of the negative environmental impact of much human behaviour. Expectedly, people will undertake actions that are more respectful to the ecological integrity of the planet” (Siti Rokhmawati Susanto, 2007: 186-205).

Environmentalists host one of America's largest political lobbies. Groups such as Greenpeace protest with millions of members worldwide on issues ranging from destruction of rainforests, oil companies, nuclear wastes, Greenhouse effect, and biodiversity.

Shared orientations of green movements – because of the diversity in environmental justice they are not identical but they share three common traits (1) the politics of being green, (2) the multi-issue basis of green theory and oppression of those green theories, and (3) the appeal to the historically situated theories.

The purpose of this piece is to draw awareness to the many contradictions relating environmental justice movements and to create a society more conscious of decisions by considering consequences.

The U.S.D.A. Environmental Justice Strategic Plan of 2016-2020 was developed in an effort to provide equitable conditions throughout every community in the United States of America. The goals that have developed to reach the equality in all communities has to consider climate changes unlike other strategic plans. The key priorities for this strategic plan are many and varied. For example, one is to increase public participation, opportunities for minorities, low income, American Indians and Alaska natives. This plan is a malleable to adjust for the best results. However, it does contain parts that are immovable.

In his esteemed novel, “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming,” Paul Hawken inspires with a call to environmental attention. As a both writer and entrepreneur dedicated to our world’s ecosystems, Hawken seems to understand the impact we have created on our planet. Despite this, he also appreciates the human capacity to create an equal impact on the other end, and make positive progress. He defines this as the “Movement,” being an assembly of environmentally-minded groups and NGO’s coming together to save the dying ecosystems of the planet. Although Hawken’s optimism should be admired, his outlook seems slightly quixotic.

These issues were explicitly incorporated in WWF’s 1990 Mission Statement, and have framed the organization’s on-the-ground and policy work ever since. Continuing the move from country-based projects to a targeted and more unified approach, WWF developed a global conservation strategy that focused efforts on the world’s most critical ecoregions and in six key areas – species, forest, marine and freshwater conservation, climate change and toxic chemicals. In addition to its long-standing relationships with traditional conservation partners, WWF also began to more actively engage with business and other new partners to promote sustainable resource management.

I know today that it takes more than activism to create change. Hailing from a family deeply involved in environmental politics and science, the wellbeing of the environment has always been something I’ve

Humans must act and take precautions to avoid initiating irreversible trends. Better management of environment resources includes a shared moral and social responsibility of conservation. With the challenge from accelerating destruction of environment, the global environmental crisis is becoming more urgent every day. Sierra Club shared a vision of humanity living in harmony with the Earth, and our world will be saved from the threat of unalterable planetary disaster. Ten years ago, Sierra Club started adopting Smart Energy Solutions, America’s Wild Legacy, and Safe Healthy communities for long-term conservation.

The World Wide Fund for Nature or WWF for short has worked at reducing our carbon footprint for over 45 years. Even since 1985, the World Wildlife Fund Network has invested over $1.165 billion in more than 11,000 projects. According to the WWF website, their mission is to conserve nature which they are actively doing in 100 countries with 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. There are several ways that everyone can do their part in supporting WWF. Supporters can donate money, adopt a species, or take action and directly help conserve our environment. I am going to discuss WWF’s cause and importance, how they are working to conserve nature, and how all of you can help support the cause.

Greenpeace is an organization which often collides with governments in countries all over the world in its attempt to stop things like global warming, deforestation, overfishing and more. Greenpeace tries to reach their goals by direct action and lobbying. This is the part where they often collide with the governments.

In the understanding of the environmental movement and the many organisations that it contains, it is helpful to organise the movements in to categories or groups of shared and similar qualities. Diani and Donati have identified four organisational types based on two conflicting differences- professional or participatory organisation and disruptive or conventional pressure (Carter 2007). These conflicts result in the four organisation types-

Environmental issues have been a cause of a lot of debate in the recent past. Governments and nongovernmental organizations have been in constant consultations on how to help protect the environment. Apparently, as a result of man’s many actions, the natural environment is getting torn apart so quickly that the coming generations will not enjoy this kind of environment, unless a

It cannot be denied the important role of non-state actors in order to tackle environmental issues. Firstly, the propaganda tools and persuasions are an effective method of non-state actors in almost case for influencing people and businesses about the importance of protecting the environment. According to D’Estries (2015), environmental NGOs such as: WWF or Greenpeace recognized the attraction of social media, especially Facebook, hence, they used this as a tool to present their environmental campaigns and get a lot of ‘like’ button. This button is an evidence of the concern of a large of population about the environmental issues and it can influence their idea of protecting the environment. In the article “environmental activism, environmental politics and representation: the framing of the British environmental activist movement”, Newlands (2013)