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We are in a world where money takes precedence over anything else, and the only thing that matters is our egoism. We do not mind if we ruin entire forests or if we completely destroy biological species. Why care about it if we obtain handsome profits!
  Fortunately, not everybody subscribes to this point of view. A case in point is Greenpeace, an organisation that strives to stop all the evil things that governments and big companies carry out daily by launching informative campaigns and by offering its help help where needed. Internet is a very effective medium for spreading ideas or news. It eliminates geographical boundaries, and Greenpeace is aware of it, and benefits from it. For instance, in 1995, Greenpeace utilised its site to publicise a route that the French use to send nuclear shipments to Japan. They also included the fax number of the French Embassy and of the newspaper Le Monde so that letters of protest could be sent. In June 2000, Greenpeace activists installed a webcam at the end of an underwater radioactive discharge pipe, which belonged to the Froggy nuclear agency Cogema, in The Hague (France) to furnish the globe with the latest news of the dumping of nuclear waste that was taking place there. Greenpeace broadcast these images on the Internet. Greenpeace not only runs campaigns over the Internet, but also employs all the means available to express its opposition where it is required: by distributing leaflets, by sticking posters, by visiting the affected places or areas, and so on and so forth. The despicable acts that powerful people are doing to our beloved Earth are of all sorts: indiscriminate tree felling, the poaching of endangered species, toxic waste, genetically engineered organisms (that is to say, tomatoes with fish genes, pigs with human genes, etc., but this may have side effects, which are not taking into account, on the human being and on the environment), and much more.   For further information, please visit Greenpeace's site, where all the atrocities described here and many others are illustrated in great detail. Miquel Molina i Diez miquel@polseguera.com 2001 Polseguera.com
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