This day in history: The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation" on this day (May 4) in 1972.
Greenpeace is a leftist environmentalist group that focuses its campaigning on eco-religious issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues. It uses direct action, lobbying, research, and ecotage (eco-terrorism) to achieve its goals.
It has been accused of manipulating public opinion in a way that would be ordinarily be condemned:
Greenpeace has escaped public censure by hiding behind the mask of its “non-profit” status and its U.S. tax exemption. ... Forbes magazine once described it as “a skillfully managed business” with full command of “the tools of direct mail and image manipulation -- and tactics that would bring instant condemnation if practiced by a for-profit corporation.” ~Deroy Murdock
Environmental groups like Greenpeace have boasted that they have, unfortunately, blocked more than 200 hydroelectric projects in the developing world over the past two decades. Greenpeace wants to shut down all the nuclear reactors and phase out nuclear power, despite the fact that nuclear power is clean and safe.
Former Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore has been critical of the movement and left it in 1986 because "[t]he environmental movement abandoned science and logic somewhere in the mid-1980s." He also states that "The future will show that this whole hysteria over climate change was a complete fabrication. Climate Crisis is 100% fake. There’s always been weather crises."
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