Greenpeace

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.

No New Nukes

Greenpeace wants to shut down all the nuclear reactors and phase out nuclear power.

Statement from Jan Beranek, Greenpeace International Nuclear Campaigner on July 16, 2007:

This fire and radioactive leakage reminds us yet again of the serious threats posed by nuclear power.... Nuclear power undermines the real solutions to climate change, by diverting resources away from the massive development of clean renewable energy sources the world urgently needs.

Global Warming

Greenpeace wants the Kyoto Protocol to be enacted and even further restrictions due to Global Warming.

Greenpeace is calling for global emissions to peak by 2020 and fall rapidly thereafter ensuring at least a 50 percent reduction from 1990 levels by the year 2050 globally, and eliminate fossil fuel emissions before the end of the 21st century. This platform is outlined in its ‘Global Energy Scenario’ which is available at: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/press/reports/energy-r-evolution-a-bluepr

External links

• The Greenpeace International homepage
• ATTAC Report