OUR WORK
Greenpeace Foundation exists to take positive, well-researched Direct Action to solve environmental crises.
In addition to our traditional campaigns protecting ocean wildlife from direct destruction, we are now engaging with the effects of the Anthropocene mass extinction, and the ways in which our planet will change irreversibly if we don’t alter “business as usual”. Have a look through the campaigns below, and get involved with taking a stand for the earth.
Ocean Wildlife Campaign
Protecting Dolphins
Greenpeace Foundation has been a world leader in dolphin protection since 1976. Get involved with us.
Saving Whales
Whales are still in danger around the world. We have been on the front lines of whale-saving since 1976. Join with us.
Saving Seals
Seals are threatened by environmental collapse, overfishing, bycatch, and directed kills. But would it be the same world without them?
Destructive Fisheries
Some kinds of fishing are inherently destructive of marine species. They need to go.
The CO2 Campaign:
Future of the Oceans
Acidification Campaign
The seas of earth face a existential threat: rising acidity from human CO2 emissions. It will forever change the oceans we know, unless our species takes a stand.
Complex Life versus Slimes
The heating, bleaching, and stagnating of seas due to CO2-triggered event cascades will selectively eliminate complex life from the oceans in favor of bacterial slimes. The fight for complex life is one we can’t afford to lose.
Food Web Collapse
As coral and shells dissolve, and toxic dead zones expand, the entire basis of the ocean food chains will alter deeply. Few large species can be expected to survive this. Yet at least in principle we could prevent it.
The CO2 Campaign:
Future of Terrestrial Life
Climate Damage
“Global Warming” and Climage Change” are insufficient to describe what’s happening. Might as well call it what it is.
Loss of Large Complex Life
The largest land animal surviving the last terrestrial mass extinction weighed about 2 lbs. Do we really want to repeat that experiment? Currently we are. You need to know what aspects of the future are predictable.
Irreversibile Thresholds
Two degrees hotter – that’s what politicians say would be acceptable. But science isn’t politics, and the universe doesn’t bargain. If we pass some thresholds, we lose control of our future.
The 6th Mass Extinction
The Carbon Pulse
Nothing about the present and future makes sense except in light of the carbon pulse. If you don’t know what that is, you really should.
Belief and the Physical World
The way we think about the physical world is determining the planet’s future. So it’d be a good idea to get that straight.
Mass Extinction Campaign
There have been 5 major mass extinctions in earth’s history. We’ve created the 6th. Its shape, in coming decades, will determine the future of humans and earth life.
Earth’s Carrying Capacity
The number of human childhoods in humanity’s future, and the number of large species which survive this century, are a function of carrying capacity. And we’re losing it.
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