lobbolt
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I just started a monthly gift to Greenpeace of 30 USD. Instead of worrying about what's degrading the environment I figure it would be better to do something about it. Any comments welcome.
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I'll be doing some more research on greenpeace, to see if my gift will continue. Thanks for the infoEpinephelus:I almost hate to reply to this.
I was a member of Greenpeace back in the 60's - "Save the Whales" and all that. In those days the organization did some good.
My opinion - and this is my opinion based on what I've seen over the years - is that Greenpeace has been taken over by folks who are into collecting your money and grandstanding in ways to collect more money, but are counterproductive to their professed mission as they are perceived as a bunch of crazies by respectable scientists.
If you really want to make a difference, find some local foundation or organization that's working on water quality in a meaningful way - someone close enough that you can actually see the people and talk to them.
That's my comment.
E.
lobbolt:I just started a monthly gift to Greenpeace of 30 USD. Instead of worrying about what's degrading the environment I figure it would be better to do something about it. Any comments welcome.
By the way, would you happen to know of any sources that have info against greepeace? Like news.. etc. Sorry, forgot to say this in the first post.Epinephelus:I almost hate to reply to this.
I was a member of Greenpeace back in the 60's - "Save the Whales" and all that. In those days the organization did some good.
My opinion - and this is my opinion based on what I've seen over the years - is that Greenpeace has been taken over by folks who are into collecting your money and grandstanding in ways to collect more money, but are counterproductive to their professed mission as they are perceived as a bunch of crazies by respectable scientists.
If you really want to make a difference, find some local foundation or organization that's working on water quality in a meaningful way - someone close enough that you can actually see the people and talk to them.
That's my comment.
E.
Well, a great deal of their negative reputation is overexaggerated. Like I said earlier, they are a very proactive group. During the 1980's they did some cute things like sabotage whaling ships and block harbors. I believe the Argentinian navy fired on and sank their ship the Rainbow Warrior for doing some outrageous thing in Antarctica. Greenpeace has a tendency to use it's boats and ships to harass other boats and ships. Sometimes what they do comes very close to breaking international and national navigation laws, on rare occasions they do in fact break them. The U.S. Navy will never forgive Greenpeace for harassing a nuclear missile submarine; I believe the navy commander eventually got fed up and surfaced his boat directly underneath the Greenpeace zodiac, swamping it. :11ztonguelobbolt:I'm starting to understand you guys' view but I'd still appreciate some compelling evidence. Maybe this is because I wasn't around when greenpeace built their bad rep. thx
Epinephelus:I almost hate to reply to this.
I was a member of Greenpeace back in the 60's - "Save the Whales" and all that. In those days the organization did some good.
E.