I want to tell you something about Greenpeace. Greenpeace is a big organisation, which was founded in 1971 in the United States (of Amerika).
Nowadays, this organisation is supported all over the world because of volunteers.
They try to prevent things that can ruin the environment, by actions without violence.
That way, they want to create a balance between humans and environment.
They want people to think about the future of the world. They want to be present at places where people ruin nature and show, by a striking way, what's wrong and what can be done about it.
Greenpeace uses differents ways to take action.
When there is, for example, a boat with dangerous things on board, Greenpeace goes to the boat and hangs banners on the boat and they paint slagons on the boat. Those actions are always without violence. The people of Greenpeace climb, with danger for their own lives, those ships to hang-up such a banner of people enchain themselves to each other to show their protest.
Greenpeace' goals are always to stop the things they protest against, or to at least delay it.
A couple of months ago, Greenpeace was on the news, because people of their organisation, laid themselves down on the railway.
They tried to prevent the transportation of nuclear refuse to Germany by train.
Unfortunately the transport went on, but the people of Greenpeace delayed it.
The action was also on the news, that way the viewers got to think about the transport and the protest against it. Greenpeace reached their goal for the greater part.
Greenpeace also takes action to the preservance of the rainforrest. Action against the use of nuclear wapons, the preservance of whales and againt the sealshunting and so on.
As long as there are people who pollute the environment or as long as animals are threatend to become extint, Greenpeace will always take action against it.
Alsjeblieft. Ik weet niet of ik alle woorden goed gespeld heb, want ik had even geen woordenboek bij de hand.
Veel succes met je spreekbeurt!!
[Dit bericht is aangepast door marlies (04-01-2002).]
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