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Essay Humans vs. Nature: Greenpeace

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Humans vs. Nature: Greenpeace There are an incredible amount of problems facing the modern world. Sometimes the problems go unnoticed while other times they get addressed and fixed. That is what has been happening with pollution and other environmental concerns since 1971. In that year, the organization called Greenpeace was created. Since then the group has jumpstarted many incredible changes dealing with the world around us. Greenpeace has done a great amount of environmental work with the aim of making the world a cleaner, safer, and better place to live.

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They have used many creative measures to gain attention of people who would otherwise not notice the environmental problems occurring. Catchy posters are put in strategic and visible areas where everyone can see their stance on an issue. Greenpeace wants people to notice what they are saying, form an opinion on it and hopefully agree with them. However, not everyone agrees with them though.

There have been many opponents to Greenpeace since its inception in 1971. Some large corporations dislike Greenpeace because the group can cause them to lose money when it is made public how much they pollute. For example, one company that was upset with Greenpeace is The Home Depot, a large "do it yourself" store. Greenpeace was opposed to their selling of wood taken from ancient forests. They organized protests and created a boycott of Home Depot. Also, officials in the Marshall Islands are upset with Greenpeace because the officials want to raise money for a study on the disposal of Asian nuclear waste in the islands. (3) If they let a waste site be built, they would end up making a lot of money. Greenpeace opposed the plan because all nuclear waste is harmful. Furthermore, in December of 1999 a Greenpeace ship was attacked by a Japanese whaling vessel near Antarctica. (4) The Japanese vessel, the Nisshin-Maru, rammed the Greenpeace ship MV Arctic Sunrise because the Japanese didn’t like the protestors around.

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