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.
Greenpeace began in 1971 when the United States announced that they were going to test
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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.
As shown above, Greenpeace was created in order to do the right thing as far as the environment and human lives are concerned. Subsequently, all the
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.
The subject of environmentalists is one that is just asking for a series of childish bickering amongst fully grown adults. No one can ever agree to disagree because everyone wants to be right. Of course, that is impossible, but God forbid that people just come to a reasonable agreement to leave opinions as they are, opinions. Mr. Edward O. Wilson does a very good job illustrating how pointless these political arguments are. How does he do this? He simply writes his own passages, setting himself in the shoes of both of the opposing parties.
The Green party are people who only want benefits out of all. If something appalling comes out of a situation, Greenies will keep their head up high and kill it with
Unfortunately, they are in the business of making money, not protecting Americans’ lives. However, in our houses we can make reduce, reuse, and recycle. Moreover, we could learn how to save water, decrease toxic waste, avoid land, air, and water pollution, and preserve our non-renewable resources. If, every American go green, manufacturers will eventually, will make long life products. As the project, indicate we can make our environment healthier, and safe, if we realized that nature has civil rights, just as New Zealand and Ecuador consider Rivers and other natural wonders. For them natural resources are individual with full civil rights. Finally, remember that technology (computer, cell phones, and tablets) are good resources, if we use them intelligently and dispose them adequately. Furthermore by changing ourselves environmental racism and environmental injustice will
They did this in several ways, they for example placed warning signs under more than 64 signposts of cities in middle and south Netherlands. Greenpeace activists also visited cities and spoke to councilors and they dumped ‘nuclear waste’ in several places.
This shows how important it is, to let the public knows that their actions actually matters to the world. Especially during my study abroad program, where I travelled to a number of European countries, it is obvious to me that the Northern Europe is way more aware of this situation and their way of living is comparably more conscious of their actions than the current situation in the United States is. Comparably, if the United States can have the same state of mind as these “Green” countries, the ripple effect will be way stronger than those countries as well. This gives me a strong motion to educate my future clients about the impacts they can make and how they can actually do the world a better good.
to be grown trees have to be cut down and I have explained the effects
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Taken from www.greenpeace.ca: "Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil