Greenpeace is a non-governmental organization that protects and conserves the environment. This organization addresses issues that affect the environment such as global warming overgrazing and deforestation. In this blog we will address the issue of global warming and energy. Global warming is the average increase in temperature due to increased concentration of greenhouse gases. These greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor and chlorofluorocarbons. The gases are caused by natural activities like volcanic eruption and human breathing, human activities is the other cause and includes deforestation, burning of coal, fossil fuel and natural gas (Spencer, 2010, p. 112). These green house gases trap the heat and light from the sun that cause the temperature increase in the earth’s atmosphere. Global warming is closely related to energy, after the temperature has increased the energy in the atmosphere increases with temperature. Global warming has triggered the climate change in almost all the parts of the world leading to disruptions in ecology and hence affecting the lifestyle of many people.
I would address the Greenpeace organization as a moral issue in its initiatives. Greenpeace organization has a duty to educate people on the cause of global warming, its importance, effects of global warming, and how to control global warming. It uses evidence based answers on it action, and research to achieve its goal of sensitizing people on the issue of global warming. The Greenpeace organization addresses the importance of global warming of enhancing the global temperature (Weyler, 2004, p. 67).
The Greenpeace organization has pointed out the effects of global warming that include the rise in sea level. It occurs as a result of melting ice and as a result of thermal expansion. The increase in global temperature changes the amount of precipitation, loss of coral reefs which feed on algae, and increased hurricanes due to evaporation of sea water. Other effects of global warming include droughts and economic consequences resulting from loss of property.
Since the Greenpeace organization is a non-governmental and gets its funding from well wishers and foundations. It does not accept any support from the government, politicians, and from corporate to avoid influence. These ensure that it maintains its independence and it achieves its aim. The Greenpeace organization has received a lot of criticism from the government and politicians in its interest to educate the people on global warming. The community has not been in a position to control global warming; most of the contributors of global warming are poor people. Instead of the community controlling global warming they contribute in the production of greenhouse gases. In cutting down of trees for settlement and cultivation, provision of electricity by burning of fossils fuel are some of the ways that the community cause the global warming. The Greenpeace organization is not in a position to settle people so as to prevent deforestation, and to provide the community with electricity to prevent the burning of fossils. This is a critical condition facing the organization since it cannot be in a position to ask for assistance from the government.
In addressing the moral issue, the Greenpeace organization should encourage the community to avoid the measure that would lead to global warming. The community should be educated on the need of planting trees after cutting; to avoid using fossil that contributes to greenhouse gases. On the problems facing the Greenpeace organization it should accept the funding from the government in its operation. The government should have the responsibility to resettle the people so as to avoid deforestation, there is need to incorporate rural electrification to avoid the burning of fossil. The Greenpeace organization should incorporate the help from the government to achieve its goals of sensitizing the community on global warming.
REFERENCES
Weyler, R. (2004). Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries
Change the World. London: Rodale Books.
Spencer, R. (2010). The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the
World’s Top Climate Scientists. Boston: Encounter Books.
