Activist Project

One activist group that I have always heard about, no matter what my age was, was Greenpeace. Greenpeace has been around since 1971, when a group of people from Vancouver went over to the US atomic test zone in Alaska and protested the testing of nuclear weapons. Since then, Greenpeace has grown to be a global organization with involvment in many countries and countless people involved throughout the world, who only have a desire for the betterment of the world around us, and the maintaining of that world and its environment and people. They have a larger involvement, and manage themselves in a non-violent manner. Greenpeace is a group that has always inspired me to take action, and initiate change within my community. I constantly participate in the community clean ups, and walk whenever I am able to. I fear for the environment, and what we are doing to it as a collective body.

Greenpeace has worked throughout the world to stop things such as the dumping of wastes into water systems, the hunting and poaching of endangered species, and the releasing of dangerous chemicals into our world. Greenpeace has always strived to find ways and technologies than can benefit the Earth and make this world a better place to live it.

I have always loved the idea of Greenpeace and how they never stop caring about the greater good. I would love to become involved with Greenpeace in someway, whether it is something small like cleaning up the garbage around my community, driving less than I used to to reduce my emmissions, recylcing and composting everything possible, recycling my cell phones and throwing my batteries where they should go, and even turning off lights EVERY time I leave a room. I try my hardest to work for the environment, and to try to produce less emmssions and wastes, but I would still love to become more involved than that with the Greenpeace projects. I would love to be involved with their campaigns to save the rainforests that large corporations are trying to clear cut to make room for more industrial nonsense. Or getting involved with the protection of a wild animal who is endangered because hunters and poachers keep killing them for monetary gain.

I feel Greenpeace really understands the world today, and the amount of polution society is creating. Greenpeace has always had the proper goals and values that I myself wish to have, and they are able to stand up, and help prevent these terrible things from happening. Greenpeace is an amazing non-profit organization, one in which I really hope to be involved in at some point in my life, and I will be proud to tell people that I did my part, and helped save the rainforests or prevented nuclear testing.