A SEMINARON

THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN THE WEST- GREENPEACE

PAPER –303

ASSAM UNIVERSITY,SILCHAR

Submitted to:Dr. AJIT KUMAR DAS

(Associate Professor)

Department of ecology and environmental science

Submitted by:

SUBRATA PAULMsc.3rd sem

Roll no.31

Introduction

The environmental movement can simply be defined as a social and political movement, mainly concerning with the conservation of environment as well as improving the state of environment. It can also be said as green conservation movement

Greenpeace is an independent global compaigning organization that act to change attitude and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.

Goal of greenpeace Greenpeace state its goal is to “ensure the ability

of the Earth to nature life in all its diversity and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, over fishing, commercial whaling and anti-nuclear issues. Greenpeace uses direct action , lobbying and research to achieve its goals. The global organization does not accept funding from government, corporation political parties , relying on more than 2.8 million individual supporters and foundation grant. Greenpeace is a funding member of the INGO accountability charter, an international non governmental organization that intends to forest accountability and transparency of non governmental organizations.

Greenpeace Evolution Greenpeace evolved from the movement and antinuclear protest in Vancouver , British Columbia, in the early 1970s. On september 15 , 1971, the newly founded Don’t make a wave committee sent a chartered ship, Phyllis cormack, renamed greenpeace for the protest, from Vancouver to oppose united states testing of nuclear devices in Amchitka Alaska . The don’t make a wave committee subsequently adopted the name greenpeace.

PICTURE OF SHIP

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In a few years, Greenpeace spread to several countries and started to campaign on other environmental issues such as commercial whaling and toxic waste . In the 1970s the different regional greenpeace grouped formed greenpeace international to overse the goals & operations of the regional organizations globally. Greenpeace receiver international attention during 1980 when the France intelligence agency bombed the Rainbow Warrior in Aucklands Waitmata Harbour one of the most well known vessels operated by Greenpeace killing one individual. The greenpeace evolved into one of the largest environmental organization in the world.

Organizational Development :

Greenpeace evolved from a group of Canadian protesters into a less conservative group of environmentalists who were more reflective of the Counterculture and Hippie Youth movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The social and cultural background from which greenpeace emerged heralded a period of deconditioning away from old antecedents and sought to develop new codes of social, environmental and political behavior. Greenpeace developed in a more evolutionary manner.

GREENPEACE MISSION Greenpeace is an independed global compaigning

organization that act to change attitude and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote by:

1) Catalyzing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: Climate change.

2) Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves

3)Protecting the worlds remain ancient forest which are depended on by many animals, plant and people.

Cont……… 4) Working for disarmament and peace by

reducing dependence on finite resource and calling for the elimination of all nuclear Weapons

5) Creating a toxic free future and safe alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today’s products and manufacturing.

6) campaigning for sustainable agriculture by encouraging socially and ecologically responsible farming practices.

Climate and Energy Greenpeace was one of the first parties to

formulate a sustainable development scenario for climate change mitigation, which it did in 1993. According to sociologist, greenpeace played a significant role in the raising public awareness of global warming in the 1990s.

The organization has also focused on CFc’s, because of both their global warming potential and their effect on the ozone layer. Currently greenpeace considers global warming to be the greatest environmental problem facing the earth. Greenpeace called for global greenhouse gas emissions to peak in 2015 and to decrease as a close to Zero as possible by 2050.

Go beyond oil Greenpeace have lunched the “Go beyond oil”

campaign. The campaign is focused on slowing, and eventually ending the world consumption of oil, with activist 'activities taking place against companies that pursue oil drilling as a venture . Much of the activities of the “Go Beyond oil” campaign have been focused on drilling for oil in the Arctic and areas affected by the Deep water horizon disaster.

Nuclear power

Greenpeace views nuclear power as a relatively minor industry with major problems, such as environmental damage and risk from uranium mining , nuclear weapons proliferation, and unresolved questions concerting nuclear waste . The organization argues that the potential of nuclear power to mitigate global warning is marginal. By 2050 would cut global green house gas emission less than 5% and requires 32 nuclear unit of 1000MW capacity build per year until 2050

Forest compaign Greenpeace forest campaign is committed to

protecting the worlds remaining ancient forests and the plants, animals & peoples that depends upon them. Investigate & expose the trade in illegal & destructively logged timber.

Engage government & industry to end their role in ancient forest destruction support the right of forest people

Greenpeace in India

Greenpeace in India has been working on various issues related to the environment since 2001. Work in India is focused on four broad campaign namely- stop climate change , sustainable agriculture, preserving the oceans and preventing another nuclear catastrophe . Over the Years, Greenpeace India has built a strong base of supporters spread across the country

Conclusion

Greenpeace organization is very important our environment . Greenpeace exist too expose environmental criminals, and to challenge government and corporations. When they fail to live up to their mandate to safe guard our environment and our future. As one of the longest banners Greenpeace have even made summed things up “ when the last tree is cut , the last river is poisoned , and the last fish dead, we will discover that we cant money.”

Reference

Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia.www. Greenpeace.org/international.www. Greenpeace.org/India

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