Public interest groups claim to work for the good of the whole society, not just one part of it. Public interest groups often have very different ideas as to how to improve society. Many public interest groups tackle a number of related issues. Greenpeace, for example, works to protect ecosystems around the world and to educate the public about dangers to the environment. They are a huge organization built around fixing the environment and making the world a better place. Greenpeace is a non-governmental organization that was started back in 1972 in Vancouver, BC. The founders of Greenpeace started it all in the late 1960s when the U.S had plans for a nuclear weapon test in the island of Amchitka, which is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone regions. In 1970 they sailed ships off towards Amchitka to stop the U.S from detonating another bomb there. Even though they got sent back, they felt sympathy for the protesters and decided not to continue with their plans to set of the bombs at that location.
Greenpeace is now an organization, which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions, which are essential to a green and peaceful future. This being their main mission they have many different ways that they go about doing this. These are some ways listed by them of how they are living up to their mission statement, by doing things like: Catalyzing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing the planet: climate change. Defending the oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves. Protecting the world's ancient forests and the animals, plants and people that depend on them. Working for disarmament and peace by tackling the causes of conflict and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's products and manufacturing, and Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by rejecting genetically engineered organisms, protecting biodiversity and encouraging socially responsible farming. They want to basically create a perfect world to live in were violence is to a low and the environment is treated right. This is what basically their vision for the future is. For example, for their campaign for Forests, their main vision is to have zero deforestation by 2020.
An incident like this would be huge for an organization like Greenpeace. Greenpeace is set to help better the environment and promotes peace. Having a animal die and Greenpeace being at fault for it could really hurt how the organization is looked at because they can be thought that they are not really trying their best to keep the environment, that they claim they care about so much, in the best condition they can. We know that one calf whale was killed and the boats propellers injured the mother. We need to verify how this incident actually happened and what was the main cause of it. Investigations that would need to be done is to look into how the boats ended up colliding into each other, since this was the main problem to how this all happened. Greenpeace needs to better train its people to make sure that confusions like this don’t happen. There are many reasons that a situation like this could have taken place. The crew members of the boats might have not been well trained or maybe did not know exactly what they were doing and by that letting the boats get to close to each other and causing the boats to collide. Another reason might be that maybe the boats were not working properly or had some type of malfunction causing them to steer to close to each other and the crew members did not know how to fix the problem. Greenpeace would really have to look into how it happened and make sure they have the right equipment and people for the job so that something like this doesn’t happen again. Greenpeace will have to also further
