How Does Greenpeace Help Fight Global Warming?

[BeauJangles]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09...s/24pittsburgh.html?hp

I can see exactly how this will work.

How does this organization continue to justify its existence? All they've managed to do is waste resources, blow up a French boat, and generally get themselves in trouble. I'd really love to see someone explain to me how hanging a banner off a bridge is going to stop global warming or convince the G20 to tackle the issue. Talk about wasted effort.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

No organization actually wants to fix problems anymore. Because if they did then they couldn't justify their existence. It's all about the donations baby.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
No organization actually wants to fix problems anymore. Because if they did then they couldn't justify their existence. It's all about the donations baby.

They learned from the March of Dimes. As soon as polio was eradicated the MoD switched to something that will never go away (birth defects).

All the "Race for the Cure" stuff is also a good example. Those races and the associated pink merchandise are cash cows. New chemo drugs or whatever might be developed to treat it, but people will always get cancer. Hence the people who work for the charity will always have jobs.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
No organization actually wants to fix problems anymore. Because if they did then they couldn't justify their existence. It's all about the donations baby.

Someone I know from middle school now works for Greenpeace. Her two messages today:

Greenpeace activists take bold action! Hang massive road signs fromPittsburgh bridges to tell the G20: ?Danger, Climate Destruction Ahead, Reduce CO2 Emissions Now.? Add your voice to theirs

After it was on NYT:

new york times homepage! proudest moment! wish i was there!

That's what prompted me to post this. How can you see this as "bold action?" And, if hanging a giant poster is your "proudest moment" shouldn't you just quit right then and there?

 

[marincounty]

Originally posted by: BeauJangles
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09...s/24pittsburgh.html?hp

I can see exactly how this will work.

How does this organization continue to justify its existence? All they've managed to do is waste resources, blow up a French boat, and generally get themselves in trouble. I'd really love to see someone explain to me how hanging a banner off a bridge is going to stop global warming or convince the G20 to tackle the issue. Talk about wasted effort.

Uhh, you've got it completely wrong. The French govt secretly bombed the ship Rainbow Warrior, killing a dutch photographer and sinking the ship. France had to pay New Zealand
NZ$13 million and the photographer's family 2.3 million francs and formally apologize for the bombing.

The French military conducted more than 200 nuclear tests (40 of them atmospheric) at Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls over a thirty-year period ending in 1996. I'd say that is worth protesting.

I'd say they justify their existence quite well. If you think they are a waste you should support the Sea Shepards, they use direct action against Japanese whalers. They split from Greenpeace because of this very reason, non-action, but publicity seeking behaviour.

I doubt that you are actually concerned for the environment.

 

[dahunan]

^^ Japanese "Scientific" Whaling is similar to Israeli "Peace" Negotiations