Little to celebrate after 50 years of activism: Greenpeace chief

Greenpeace, CND, Extincion Rebellion....Enough said. Nothing to celebrate if you belong to any of these organisations.

I like his stated goal almost at the end of the article. Must be really disheartening to realise that few results have been achieved. although I guess part of the fun is in the trying.

Sham organization, for the most part.

It seems to exist to keep having its members paid money by those they have duped.

Humanity cares only for itself and not for the planet. With the ever-increasing population and the ever-increasing need for energy, the Earth is gradually being stripped and its climate is changing far too quickly. Humanity thinks only in terms of consumption. And those who run humanity will do nothing to reverse what is happening. Sad fate ...

Every well-meaning organization becomes a grift after a while. For Greenpeace, it was a long time ago.

One of the founding members, Patrick Moore, exposed them as the hustlers they are long ago.

Those guys in that pond need to try harder - have they contacted the XR theater directors, they usually have some good ideas.

and should have said - and getting paid.

One thing that bothers me is an argument by ecologists like Tadashi Watanabe, a University of Tokyo-affiliated specialist in CO2, who declares there is no such thing as global warming.

In the past 30 years, he says, the earth's atmospheric temperature rose only 0.3 degrees centigrade, a rise too minuscule for human senses to discern.

He further says everything environmentalists say is a fake. But isn't the 0.3 degree the mean average of extreme temperatures? If so, the rise of temperature by 0.3 degrees centigrade is very, very significant and harmful, I think.

They have not much on their success list, because they’re acting much too radical. For changes, if really necessary or not, you need time, continuously explaining and convincing the people, considering also their daily life and financial problems. Take them slowly by the hand, instead of demanding them to change overnight and only inventing new rules or restrictions, forbidding this and that and everything else. That’s not working.

If Greenpeace is serious about combating anthropogenic climate change without us having to sacrifice our present financial prosperity and reliable energy supply, they should be campaigning for more Generation 4 nuclear reactors.

Well Greenpeace has participated in eco-terrorism- so they have that.

The reason Greenpeace has never been successful is because they have gone too much the extremist route. Extremism convinces no one, and attempts to push its minority point on the majority. This doesn't work with humans. Extremism doesn't work. The left-wing extremists are no better than the right-wing extremists.

The reason Greenpeace has never been successful is because they have gone too much the extremist route. Extremism convinces no one,

It depends on how urgent you view the problem. Thinking man has a long time to solve the climate problem and can comfortably do so without some economic disruption, at this point, is wishful thinking. I think Greenpeace saw the problem more clearly than most do today and also sees the urgency. Too many are still in denial. Its kind of like knowing the roof is on fire, engulfed in flame, what do you do? Yell to everyone "Fire, get out now while you can", or yawn and say, "hmmm, I think I smell some smoke, perhaps we have a little fire on the roof, anyone want to poke their head up into the attic have a look-see?".

Every well-meaning organization becomes a grift after a while. For Greenpeace, it was a long time ago.

Sad but true. I honestly wish it were otherwise.

One good idea that I found on the Greenpeace website was their campaign to expand public transport and to divest our society and economy from functioning around cars. Public transport is far superior at reducing emissions from the automotive sector rather than simply telling people to buy more EV's. Not to mention the toxic dangers and unsustainability of EV batteries.