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Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World

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This book is a dazzling feat of impassioned storytelling. Weyler conjures the feel of an entire era -- sketching the disparate ideas, the hair-raising events, and the motley crew of inspired eccentrics who precipitated a wild metamorphosis in the collective mindscape. Indeed, his evocation of the visionary fire of these activists -- recounting their personal confusions along with their crazy courage on behalf of a more-than-human world -- may serve as a wake-up jolt to an environmental movement that has today become painfully complacent. And it's a damn good yarn, to boot."

I loved this book! The pace never dropped into a boggy, dry account but integrated the adventure of being on board a ship chasing whalers with the political history of the group. The issues are explained, in case you missed out on the 1940 to 1980 time period, as I did. Very educational, but never boring. Wonderful!

This is a great telling of the founding and development of Greenpeace. You are left in awe at the actions and protests these guys carried out and have your heart wrenched when you read about the whale and seal hunts. It describes the politics of the groups founding and how it grew, as well as some more organic stories of the members spiritual ideas and beliefs. This is extremely well written and a great read. Over 500 pages fly by in the blink of an eye. Fantastic!

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This is a great book if you're looking for some insight and information of the formative years of the organization today known as Greenpeace. You get a great look at the first famous campaigns against nuclear testing, soviet whaling and the seal slaughter in Canada. It's a great read to also learn about the founders and other individuals (Robert Hunter, Rod Marining, Paul Watson, Rex Weyler, others) and those who had the influence on this organization in its infancy, in many ways that are still quite visible in the organization today. This book is long, and detailed, but at the same time you can't help but feel the excitement present during those first ground breaking campaigns. A great read!

Please consider reading this book. It has changed many people in their views on environmental policy and activism. it has a good analysis and report on how Greenpeace has affected our lives and the benefits of their active roles. Buy it. Its certainly worth the price. I encourage you to also partake in any environmental activism. Environmental information can be found on Greenpeace's website. www.greenpeace.org

I love the fact that this book was printed on forest friendly paper. If more books were made like this we'd have more homes for the wild animals.

I'll be honest.I tried to read parts of this trash-book on an internet site.
Pure trash-book.Eugenics now, is called ecology.
How a group of bigots and eugenicists disguised as nature's friends, got support from massive numbers.Here in Brazil, a brazilian told, about thirty years ago:I respect the dumbs, because they are eternal, and I'm not.