Greenpeace

Greenpeace was founded by Jim Bohlen, Irving Stowe, and Paul Cote. members who were part of the Sierra Club's "Don't Make a Wave Committee", changed their name to Greenpeace because they wanted to have a stronger meaning for what they're doing and wanted to create a greener peaceful place to live in our world. Greenpeace was founded in Canada in 1971 and Bill Darnell came up with the name. This interest group has had a long successful history, supporters around the world, even made a few mistakes but in the end proved to be an outstanding competitor for today's environment

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The first objective for Greenpeace was to ensure that our planet can keep natural life safe in all its diversity. They prevent pollution, try to end all nuclear threats and promote peace. According to Greenpeace, nuclear power is dangerous, dirty, and uneconomic. A problem with nuclear power stations is that they create nuclear waste and do not know what to do with that waste. The three men first decided to try and end nuclear testing first in an island off Alaska. Unfortunately, their first voyage ran into problems but the media wrote about Greenpeace's intentions so more people heard what they were doing, loved the idea, and joined their group. They completed their objective anyways because the American government announced the ending of nuclear testing.

By the mid-1980's Greenpeace had grown from a church basement to an organization with an income of over $100 million per year. They had offices in 21 countries around the world tackling toxic waste, acid rain, uranium mining and drift net fishing as well as the original issues. They had won over a majority of the public to support their ideas in what they were doing. Presidents and prime ministers were talking about the environment on a daily basis. Since then, Greenpeace is still as effective as any organization out there.

They are a non-profit organization and are currently found in 40 countries all around the world and have their headquarters in Amsterdam. This interest

group holds no attachment to governments and have no connection with any political parties. Greenpeace Foundation has never taken any money from any government loans. They strictly fund their foundation by the support of their people's dollars. They are simply an organization that seeks for protection of the environment and is in favor to any reaserch that may help ensure a peacefull future.

The organization is providing global leadership, and the French have felt it. There's such a leadership vacuum in the world today that a non-governmental organization like Greenpeace can step in and drive their communitie's people. And Greenpeace combines direct action and "guerrilla theater" with great effect.

Greenpeace has dedicated a lot of time to protect what seems to be the most important subject to them, forests. They see forests as being a home for a most plants and animals. Forests are providers of wood, medicine, habitats, sources of food, etc. Greenpeace's way of thinking is "forests sustain us, but but we are not sustaining them." So Greenpeace feels they should be doing something about it. hundreds of forests have been destroyed because of industries. These industries are charged with the extinction of thousands of species, the deforestation of large areas of the Earth, and the destruction of the ecosystem. To Greenpeace, the only thing that should be dealing with our forest is nature itself. They feel that its the consumer's responsibility to change their negative habits towards forests by maximizing the use of methods like recycling. However, this causes a problem for industries because this is how they earn their money. Governments