In Greenpeace’s annual general meeting, attendees were shocked and appalled upon learning that a massive load of trash was thrown into the North-Atlantic Ocean out of a European port. Immediately, members began to feel outraged, displaying their distress through some very loud and passionate speeches. The room filled with environmental activists began to boil with frustration, and a deep desire for justice.
After that extremely upsetting announcement, a ten minute moderated caucus was held to discuss further action, and for members to offer their thoughts. Our agency does its best to bring readers accurate information, however, we cannot exactly clarify some meeting specifics. Ghiwa Nakat declared that there was over 1 million tons of trash in the ocean, while Mark Kaiser claimed that there was over 100 billion tons of trash. Thus, Euronews is unsure as to which person’s information is correct but our own research shows that there are 75 to 200 million tons of waste currently in our oceans.
Of course, all members were outraged at the situation and were ready to take a stand to protect the ocean. Unfortunately, because all attendees are environmentalists, they all had similar things to say, making the discussion quite dull. Common themes amongst members was that nations must unite to save the planet and find the perpetrators, and that an investigation must immediately go underway.
Despite this, a few members did have unique solutions. Jo Dufay suggested that rather than using one solution to take action, Greenpeace should incorporate multiple ideas to get the best possible solution. Mark Kaiser also proposed to remove unknown ships and containers from European ports. This ideas were the least generic in the meeting, so they are most likely to actually succeed.
While it was difficult for attendees to come up with new and diverse solutions, many members spoke very well, sharing some deep words to really get their points across. Henrik Han told the other activists that this was a public attack on both European and Greenpeace sanctity. And Ghiwa Nakat fiercely told the committee that “the time to act was yesterday” at the end of their speech These words of inspiration and courage brought hope and faith to many members of Greenpeace. If only they had been paired with solutions, perhaps then Greenpeace could solve this problem.
Just as things began to look up for Greenpeace, with members dedicating speeches to agree with their fellow activists, another bomb was dropped ( or load of trash was dumped) onto the committee with their latest crisis update. Apparently there had been a leak of information within Greenpeace, the organization’s anonymous tip box was spammed by either a U.S. or Russian group, and to top it all off, Greenpeace’s own Hann Verhejen was communicating with business rival shell!
Now, members were even more shocked and appalled that Greenpeace member Hann was committing treason. In an attempt to defend himself, Hanh spoke about how Greenpeace was failing as an organization and how he was left with no choice but to correspond with their largest enemy. Despite his efforts fellow attendees could still not believe what Hann had done. Dr. Wang even gave a speech about how Hann was ” Keep[ing] his enemies closer,” and how he was prioritizing profit over the planet. Dr. Wang then suggested that Hann be investigated. In a heated right of reply, Hann passive aggressively apologized to Greenpeace saying that he was ” Sorry that [he] tried his best to help the plane
Because of all of this controversy within the organization, it seems highly unlikely that Greenpeace will be able to effectively solve this problem without damaging the rift in the organization. Only one directive was passed, calling for UN and other government agencies to help Greenpeace with these environmental crisis.
Overall, the meeting was slightly unproductive. It is unsure if Greenpeace will ever be able to fix our Earth and even their own organization.
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