Greenpeace
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Greenpeace is an environmentalist group that seeks to ban commercial whaling and stop nuclear testing (see nuclear test ban treaty).
Greenpeace activists building an Ark.
It has been accused of manipulating public opinion in a way that would be ordinarily be condemned (see double standard):
- Greenpeace has escaped public censure by hiding behind the mask of its “non-profit” status and its U.S. tax exemption. ... Forbes magazine once described it as “a skillfully managed business” with full command of “the tools of direct mail and image manipulation -- and tactics that would bring instant condemnation if practiced by a for-profit corporation.” [1]
Environmental groups like Greenpeace have boasted that they have blocked more than 200 hydroelectric projects in the developing world over the past two decades.