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robpark:
Having started this thread I thought I ought to add a few words...

First off all I have been hugely impressed by the comments and the reasoned arguments that you have all made to Greenpeace  :)  :)

I've been rather saddened by the fact that Greenpeace have chosen not to address the real questions raised by their video, which were (1) whatever possesed them to think it was acceptable to portray viscious victimisation of an individual as a constructive campaign tactic and (2) why they choose to target 4x4 owners exclusively?

I would also add that Greenpeace supporter services haven't even bothered to respond to my original email  :(

My donation is now going to Amnesty http://www.amnesty.org.uk/index.asp

bezzabsa:
this is why my wifes nan would NEVER give money to Oxfam, she read about the charities and what percent they actually give, oxfam were bottom of the league with something like 0.3p out of every pound actually going to the needy!
green peace were quite low down the table - must be due to those bloomin boats - the french had the right idea!

Terminus:
I decided to add yet another message if disaproval


--- Quote ---Dear Greenpeace

I really should have started this e-mail with ‘Oh Dear Greenpeace”, I have recently viewed your distasteful advert on 4x4’s and was initially speechless.

Now before I start I own a 4x4 (you probably guessed that) and I have an Honours Degree in Environmental Science and Countryside Management (so I’m not ignorant of the facts).

What you portray is a distasteful depiction of bigotry, inciting of workplace bullying and a rather one sided picture of a ‘group’ of car owners whom you have decided to label without clarity or common sense.

I use my car for the purpose for which it was built, I walk whenever I can rather than drive, the emission levels of my car are far below the levels of numerous other ‘groups’ of car owners. I sail which is in harmony with our ocean environment rather than the polluting diesel tanks that travel the globe (I’m sure you can equate with that seeing as you yourselves use gallons of diesel in the name of campaigning)

Your advert sadly says to me ‘We will stoop to any level and stop at nothing to force our opinion down your throat whether or not we have actually thought it through’.

Where is the Greenpeace that had rational and reason, which had respect and dignity?

What I see now is a political organisation (aka business) that fuels hatred (in this case with a distasteful message aimed at 4x4 drivers) that shouts without thinking of consequence (there are those in the world who will blindly believe what you say and imitate) and doesn’t have to back up its lack of reasoning because we are who we are (because your point is flawed, there are far heavier polluters on the roads who drive what they drive simply for status and not practicality, who’s engines pump out far higher emissions than many rather lower emission 4x4s).  

I won’t dive into the realms of mankind’s actual impact on the environment in relation to the actual level of releasing of stored carbon because it would probably confuse an organisation who’s sole purpose now seems driven toward do as I say whether I can prove it or not.

I shall avoid going in depth into natural trends in the environmental cycle which have been at work long before the ant colony that is mankind appeared, or over emphasising the point that mankind has an ill founded belief in its own power “what will you leave for your children?” no you don’t really have that much of a choice “what will nature in all its power leave for you” is more to the point.

Perhaps you should look at the resources Greenpeace expends itself, but no that would be counter productive to your blanket message that you are the defenders of the natural world (a world that defended itself for billions of years before you ever evolved).

In short you like any business exist to make money to fill your own membership quota and financial needs and like many a business have lost track of your original goal and values.  You therefore resort to ill thought out tactics and tasteless discrimination.

From a name that once held respect to a business that now shows disrespect to whom so ever it pleases – deeply disappointing.

I imagine you will have a stock reply ready to blanket people who dislike this particular campaign and await it with a sense of disappointment.

Regards
--- End quote ---

rangerider:
I watched Penn & Teller last week take the green lobby to pieces. the person they gave most airtime to from the "greens are talking out their ***" side of the argument was....... a founder of Greenpeace :)

the less said about the people who signed the petition cooked up to ban dihydrous-oxide the better :)

(apparently it can cause excess urintation! - go figure) :)

dreadnought110:
:shock: just watched the video.The only reply to that is t****rs!!!

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