Consider supporting Greenpeace

[info being]

We had our first day that felt like summer here in my remote town of Kosice, Slovakia, and as I was out strolling around I noticed a sort of art display. As I got closer, I saw the familiar yellow shirts I had seen so often in Seattle...Greenpeace! They had a public photography display to humanize the victims of Chernobyl and other nuclear energy accidents. They weren't asking for contributions, only promoting awareness.

When I went home and began working, I saw a headline in Yahoo on a Greenpeace report estimating 90,000 people have been affected by Chernobyl. Wow, that's an activist organization that is organized, effective, and proactive. I've been looking for a good cause to contribute to, and this is it.

I went to the website for more information, and am in complete agreement on their list of priorities: stop climate change, save our seas, protect ancient forests, demand peace and disarmament, say no to genetic engineering, eliminate toxic chemicals, end the nuclear threat, and encourage sustainable trade.

I'm making a monthly contribution and will consider volunteering. If these are things you care about, please take a look at their site: www.greenpeace.org.

[Nederland]

1. Is it still anti-nuke?

That's a deal breaker to me. Right now nuclear power is the only sustainable, carbon free energy source we have. I even heard that the founder of Greenpeace has changed his mind on the issue...

[info being]

2. Maybe just anti-90,000-people being harmed by nukes.

[Nederland]

3. That's a red-herring

Chernobyl was a design that would be illegal anywhere else in the world. I mean really, who thinks that a nuclear reactor without a containment core is a good idea? Furthermore, 90,000 people harmed is far less than the number harmed by mining coal and drilling for oil. Perhaps you should educate yourself as to why nuclear is now a good idea:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html