Question

Greenpeace International is an important friend to the sustainable community worldwide.write a minimum one full page report discussing who they are, what they do, their reason for being, and the 3 most interesting and worthwhile things they have done (in your opinion). Please be specific and be sure to use your own words and thoughts.

Answer 1

Greenpeace is an independent agency involved in promoting bio diversity, taking steps to prevent pollution and promoting nonviolence. This agency do not accept funds from Government agency and operates fully based on the funds received from individuals. The agency focuses on banning activities that will affect the nature. This independent agency conducts campaigns in a nonviolent manner to take actions that organization which are causing problems to the environment. The goal of this agency to protect nature, prevent fossil fuels from extinction, promote use of renewal energy like solar energy and conserve the use of non-renewable resource like petrol, stop the use of harmful chemicals by industries that pollutes atmosphere and prevent pollution happening due to use of nuclear products.

Late in Nineteen seventies, a group of activist staged their protest against a country's decision to start a nuclear plant in an island that was rich in biodiversity such as rare species birds, trees and sea animals. The agency gained popularity when they started protests dumping of nuclear wastes that damaged the nature and caused deadly diseases among people living in that community. It was lead by small group of people, which included a social activist, lawyer, veteran from Navy and few environmentalists. The agency many movements such protect sea, save our forest, prevent the climate change and stop using harmful chemicals. They agency was backed by even Government, as it required the support of independent agencies to protect the nature by creating awareness among public. Greenpeace is not compromised with their objectives due to any external pressure and works continuously to protect the planet. It also started many other agencies and club to create awareness among public. The agency works with integrity and do not be compromised by the pressure of any political party or popular industrialist over their final goal.

Green peace gained loss of significance when due to large success in all popular movements, which they conducted. Some of the popular work done by Green peace international is as given below,

- The agency was first to report the use of harmful pesticides on the vegetables being sold in some of supermarket across different countries. The use of harmful chemicals will cause deadly disease like cancer and other deadly lung diseases. This act by Greenpeace led Government to fix stricter norms against those using harmful chemicals across different countries.

- Today air pollution is one of the major concern faced by many countries, and Green peace took the initiative to report the air pollution levels prevailed in different countries. Now that we get to know, which is most polluted city and which one is the least. The reason for air pollution is due to the smoke from burning of coal, fuel used in automobiles and smoke from burning of chemicals by Industries. Such data on air pollution will help to understand the bad practices that they are performing and take steps to protect their city from becoming air polluted. Needless to mention that air pollution significantly dropped during pandemic time, when people stopped using automobiles and industries were shut for a brief period.

-Greenpeace launched campaigns against use to harmful metals and chemicals used by products manufactured by company. If products are being dumped, it will affect the health of people involved in dismantling the E-Waste. Use of harmful metals like Tungsten will affect the nature while scrapping the product. This will cause deadly diseases among people involved in handling scrap. Greenpeace also started the movement against use of cheap components in electronics resulted in shorter product life cycle and more E-Waste. This will also pollute the whole nature causing harmful effects to all living beings.