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 nuclear weapons on Amchitka Island near Alaska. A small group of individuals were upset by this announcement and they felt that something needed to be done. They knew that the testing of nuclear weapons could have horrible effects on the environment, so the concerned individuals sailed across the North Pacific on a boating vessel to protest the testing. (1) Soon their voices were heard and other people supported their fight against the government. The protestors decided that they needed a slogan, so they decided on Greenpeace. Since 1971 this group of people turned into a huge organization and they have made a difference worldwide.
The organization’s mission as stated on their website: Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. (2) The key words in that statement are non-violent and creative. Throughout the years the organi...
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