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An unfamiliar sight in Singapore — that of vehicles with foreign licence plates filling the car park — meets visitors at the basement of the city-state's first casino, which opened nearly a month ago.
But surprises are to be expected after the casino opened its doors to its first clients during the Chinese New Year on Feb. 14 — and to a proverbial Pandora's Box of social impacts to be seen in the coming months and years.
On the surface, Resort World Sentosa (RWS), which the casino is part of, is a theme park for the family. The façade of a fairytale castle looms on the horizon on the way to Sentosa gateway bridge, inviting visitors to enter into a world of fantasy. Inside it, a labyrinth of quaint buildings, gathering spaces and water features manufacture a different reality.
'It's very beautiful!' crooned nine-year-old Samantha Tan, who pleaded with her parents to bring her and her siblings to RWS over the weekend. 'I love the clowns and the belly dancers are very pretty. But some of the shops are not open yet, so I think we want to go to the beach soon.'
From the amazing architecture to the roaming street entertainers, an atmosphere of fun and fantasy for the family fill the air in the resort, which is Singapore's newest attraction located in Sentosa island off its southern coast.
But the directional signage in the resort, shaped in the playful motif of flowers and butterflies, betrays its economics-driven reality. At the top of the signage, like its crowning glory, a flower in full bloom points the way to the casino -- hardly the most family-oriented facility.
Squirrelled away into the basement level of RWS, the casino functions unobtrusively, away from prying eyes.
The unceasing chirp of voices suggests that the majority of the crowd are foreigners. With locals and Singapore permanent residents required to pay a hefty 100 Singapore dollar (71 U.S. dollar) gambling levy per entry — or a discounted rate of 2,000 Singapore dollars (1,430 U.S. dollars) for 12 months — this comes as little surprise.
'I'm just here to check it out for myself and take some pictures, see what the hype is about. I'm not going to go into the casino though, not when I'm going to 'lose' 100 dollars before even placing any bets!' quips Jeremy Teo, 35.
He agrees, however, with the government's decision to charge a gambling levy, which he feels will 'prevent many Singaporeans from losing their heads and all their money at the casino tables'.
For visitors from neighbouring Johor Bahru in Malaysia, the newly opened attraction is free, and just over an hour's drive away. The other casino in the region, in Malaysia's Genting Highlands, is some four hours away.
'I came with some friends to have a look since we are free this weekend,' said Lee Teck Wah, a 47-year-old Malaysian, who is visiting the casino here for the first time. 'I have been to the Genting casino many times, and thought 'why not come try our luck here?' It's been so long since I have come to Singapore anyway.'
Built at a cost of 6.59 billion Singapore dollars (4.71 billion U.S. dollars), RWS is one of the world's most extensive and expensive integrated resorts, housing a host of grand facilities over 49 hectares of land.
These facilities include South-east Asia's only Universal Studios theme park, six hotels, a 1,600-seat theatre, as well as the world's largest Marine Life Park oceanarium and a maritime museum. Supporting the attractions are a 3,500-lot car park facility, restaurants and retail stores.
In the first two days of its opening alone, the casino raked in some 40 million Singapore dollars (28.6 million U.S. dollars), with more than 35,000 visitors trying their hand at the tables. News reports say the casino is expected to bring in revenues of 1.7 billion Singapore dollars ($1.2 billion U.S. dollars) in its first year, an amount handy to have during a time of recession.
A second casino in the republic, Marina Bay Sands, is expected to be launched in April.
Tourism officials hope the casinos will help Singapore achieve its target of 17 million visitors a year, generating over 21 billion US dollars by 2015.
But from the inception of the idea for the first casino in 2004, it has met with much resistance among concerned citizens. Several groups, including the Muslim and Christian communities and social activists, expressed their disapproval to the casinos — a move that is both peculiar and noteworthy in apathetic Singapore society.
Despite public worries over the negative social impact of casino gambling as well as opening of doors to undesirable activities including money laundering, prostitution, and organised crime, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced in April 2005: 'After weighing the matter carefully, the Cabinet has collectively concluded that we had no choice but to proceed with the (Integrated Resorts) IRs. As Prime Minister, I carry the ultimate responsibility for the decision.'
As a social safeguard to combat excessive gambling, the gambling levy was put in place, together with the setting up of the National Council on Problem Gambling and measures such as 'casino exclusion', to stop problem gamblers and those in financial difficulties from entering the casinos in Singapore.
Already, the crimes are rolling in along with the chips that the casino is raking in.
A 53-year-old taxi driver, Loo Siew Wan, was charged late last month for impersonation, theft, and giving false information to the police. Loo managed to enter the RWS casino — in spite of an exclusion order — by stealing and using his brother's driving licence, casting doubt on the effectiveness of the measures put in place by the authorities.
Loo was only caught after he allegedly tried to cheat a casino dealer on duty at a baccarat table by placing a bet of two 100 Singapore dollar (71 U.S. dollar) chips after the result of the game had been declared.
In another case, unemployed Indonesian man Paulus Djohar was jailed for four weeks after pleading guilty to stealing a mobile phone from an undergraduate at Changi Airport, after losing all of the 1,000 Singapore dollars (710 U.S. dollars) he had with him at the casino.
'It is inevitable. When you want to open something like a casino, you are really opening a can of worms,' said Grace Lim, 27, an advertising executive. 'Hopefully, somehow, the money the casinos make and the shot in the arm for the tourism industry will be more than enough to cover the social costs. But how high a price can society afford to pay?'
On top of objections to the casino, local and international animal rights groups, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Sea Shepard Conservation Society, launched a campaign last year against the importation of whale sharks, described as the largest living fish species, that RWS plans to feature in its Marine Life Park oceanarium.
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You're saying living conditions were better in the Weimar Republic, when it took a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread?
That's my point. Corporations and the system that has enabled their rise routinely sacrifices ethics for the sake of profit. In fact, they have no other choice - the system is designed so that one cannot do other than sacrifice ethics for profit.
This is the worst sort of Malcolm Gladwell Panglossian pablum. "Society" has not become any of these things; we have simply exported our cruelty, exclusion and oppression overseas. This is why you have to justify your claim with "domestically". But there is no separation between domestic and foreign policy; the West lives at is does because of the historical and on-going exploitation of the rest of the world.
For that matter, even if we focus exclusively on the West, your claim is only true for the relatively privileged. People of color, the poor, and other marginalized groups are living in a police state. The US has the highest prison population in the world right now. There are more Black men in prison than there ever were under slavery. Try telling them they aren't living a police state! Try telling them how enlightened and compassionate our society is!
You have to be living in a bubble of affluence and comfort to make such claims or to believe them.
Meh. People have different takes on it. I've made my own nation, which is based on an alternate history where Nazi Germany takes over the world.
I got Psychotic Dictatorship at first, then Iron Fist Consumerists-
No matter how much one nation conquers, it's collapse is inevitable. In the end that is our past, present, and future.The real question is what causes the collapse. Causes could possibly be rebellion, war, food shortages, or maybe just good old-fashioned ineptitude in leadership. What are the underlying causes for all of these? Could it be human nature? Could it be lack of faith in the way we maintain ourselves?
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LAZINESS. People get lazy and are like "ill take care of that rebellious general tomorrow. Weve survived a thousand years, it's not we're going anywhere". And then then Mongols are all like SUPRISE ATTACK and there goes the chinese empire.
In the end, it's an impossibility for only one factor to contribute to the downfall of large entities. It takes contributions from within and from outside.
This is probably true. It's probably true of you too, or anyone else who can afford to take a break from daily subsistence to read an argument on an Internet game, by use of a relatively sophisticated and expensive technology. As such, I could note how easy it is to condemn various facets of society while also comfortably consuming its product. I won't though, because that would actually be unfair for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which being that the nature of the society around you remains, for the most part, out of your direct control.
Instead, I'll note that it does anarchists little good to absolutely reject any movement in the direction of their preferences because that move is very small, or incomplete, or doesn't perfectly comport with their ideological preferences. When they do this, at best, they make themselves irrelevant; no one can ever meet their high standards by definition, so no one has any reason to give a sh*t who they are or what they stand for. At worst, they train anyone that hears them to reject any positive change unless that change comes under a set of circumstances (completely perfect solution in zero time) that have, at most, an infinitesimally tiny chance of ever actually holding.
In short, they train people to reject positive change.
I'm sorry if my willingness to praise even imperfect or incomplete positive change offends you. I personally see, again for example, expanded access to health care for LGBT people as a positive, if incomplete, improvement. I think that's reasonable. Even if that expanded access only arrived because some dirty corporation (at least some of which are non-profit or socially/worker owned and operated, again btw) only wants to gain somehow. I'll take it for now, because it means a marginalized group is that much less marginalized. At the very least, I cannot reject "selfish" motivations, because my own motivations (to not be oppressed) are at least equally "selfish." And, hopefully, if I acknowledge the positive change, more will follow for others of the marginalized as well.
I could sit around fantasizing about the glorious instant revolution that will never be (or which when attempted, historically, pretty much fails spectacularly or devolves into police states of their own), or I could help get sh*t done.
Seriously, all anarchists should be taking up positions in government and corporations so that they can affect the change they want from the inside. But refusing to do so because they might get the stink on them...and then to seriously accuse anyone else of arrogance or privilege. Please.
And yes, in real life, I am employed by The Evil Government (TM); I even talk to police officers on a daily basis, the most supreme horror of all! I do this in order to implement social and educational public services, doing what tiny little I can for the poor, marginalized, non-white, and ill (especially mentally ill). Still, you have to expel me from your perfect anarchist ideological utopia, what with my being a fu*kin' g-man and all. :p
Yea...but laziness is probably on of the top ones, alongside institutions having a feeling of false security.
While you're right to encourage people to try to change the current system from the inside, this is a very limiting tactic. Small success aren't to be discarded, but one must still be wary of them and not lose sight of the bigger picture. They can cause a movement to lose it's momentum and sputter out into nothing.
The idea that anarchists mooch around all day and complain is absolutely nonsense.
I would prefer direct action, such as eroding the power of the state to tax, regulate, and control by setting up my own underground business, helping illegal immigrants cross the border, moonshining, sex work, being self sufficient, joining underground economies such as bitcoin, et cetera. All of these activities can both pay the bills and help many more people at the same time than standing on a soapbox and giving vague promises.


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Cutting back on red meat and dairy can be one of the biggest steps to reduce your carbon footprint. While Greenpeace campaign for renewable energy and a transition from fossil fuels, we're also looking at other ways we can protect ourselves and the environment.
Ecological produce at Raspail Market in central Paris.
Just like a fossil fuel transport system, the meat industry has an impact on the environment. When we eat red meat every day, it has an effect on our water use and carbon footprints.
According to the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's scientific report:
"Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant-based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in animal-based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (GHG emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average US diet."
So why start a low-carbon diet, and where do you begin making changes? Check out these great tips on how to cut back on meat.
Food illustration of a farm created by Instagram food artist and enthusiast Ida Skivenes.
Your diet is a very personal part of your life. That means you don't need to follow the rules and trends of other herbivores – just the advice of your doctor (and maybe your mother). Some vegetarians choose to eat sustainably caught seafood, and some vegans eat eggs from their own chickens. Others – called 'freegans' – eat meat and dairy that would otherwise be thrown out to avoid food waste. As long as you're safe, healthy, and making the decisions you want for yourself and the world, you're all good.
Farm workers pack organic produce with their child at Shared Harvest Farm in Tongzhou, China.
If dropping meat from your diet right now sounds daunting, you can try phasing it out over time. Initiatives like Meatless Mondays, where people stop eating meat one day of the week, are a great place to start (not to mention you'll be alongside people like Sir Paul McCartney and Chris Martin). You could also make an effort to choose the vegetarian option when eating out, or start by cutting the most resource-intensive meats like beef from your diet.
Francesca Kitheka from Kenya holds pigeon peas. In Kenya, farmers are effectively applying ecological farming practices that are increasing their ability to build resilience to and cope with climate change.
Sometimes our diets affect the people we live with or see a lot. If you're sharing food preparation duties with someone, make sure you talk to them about your decision and make an effort to work out a plan. Maybe some nights you'll cook separately, or you'll make dishes with the meat on the side – or they might even make a change with you!
If you're visiting friends or family for a meal, let them know about your new diet. You might want to bring a vegetarian dish or two to share, or offer to come early to help cook and prepare. Your diet doesn't have to stop you from enjoying your life.
Farmer's markets like this one in Slovakia, sell produce made with love for the nature and environment, without using chemicals.
From nutritional information, to vegetarian recipes, to helping you find the perfect ingredient substitutes – the internet has everything a vegetarian needs.
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You can have your (vegan) cake and eat it too!
If you can't stop eating meat, but still want to bite away at your food footprint, there's still lots you can do. You might choose to buy local or organic produce, stop eating processed or packaged foods, or grow your own fruit and vegetables at home. There are even ways to make changes to how you consume meat and dairy to reduce your carbon food footprint, like choosing from more ecological farming methods such as buying grass-fed rather than grain-fed beef.
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Making the decision to commit to a new diet is difficult – but once you start it's easy! But if you slip up or forget, be kind to yourself and keep at it.
Rashini Suriyaarachchi is the Digital Communications Officer at Greenpeace Australia Pacific. This article originally appeared on the Greenpeace Australia Pacific's website here.
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Overconsumption is a big problem for some people in Russia. But they don't have access to a proper recycling system. Once a month, people have to carry their separate recyclables to a collection point that's run entirely by volunteers. There is no state-run recycling programme.
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Violetta, 27 years old, and Anastasia, 35 years, both journalists. We've been recycling for the last three and a half years. © Yelena Lukyanova
Violetta: "I decided to not only take my recycling to the collection points, using recyclemap.ru, but also to reduce the amount of packaging I buy. I try to take containers to the store with me and fill them with what I want to buy, like my own bags for fruit and vegetables.
"At first, it was awkward. A saleswoman once asked why I do it. I told her about how long plastic takes to decompose and how many animals die from plastic pollution. 'We all have our quirks', was her response. But now it seems like more and more people are asking stores to stop selling products in plastic packaging."
Anna, 24, works in advertising and has been using the scheme for two years now. © Yelena Lukyanova
"Since childhood, I've made use of unwanted materials, like making papier-maché out of receipts. This Wonder Woman costume is made from medical shoe-covers with red tape from bread packaging for the corset."
Dmitry, 35, an agronomist, has been recycling for one year and is one of the volunteers who helps to coordinate the monthly collection schemes. © Yelena Lukyanova
"The majority of our visitors are people under 40, many with children. There is always someone who will ask: is this all really is processed? It's not just sent to a common landfill site? And I explain: we are not spending our days off here for nothing – yes, it all gets recycled."
Dmitry, 39, manager, Lena, 31, accountant, and Lesch, 5 years old. The family has been recycling for 14 years. © Yelena Lukyanova
Dmitry: "I have a funny story about recycling in Russia. Greenpeace were hosting an event to inform people about separating their waste. We were approached by a man who said, 'You, Greenpeace, you work for the CIA!' We asked, 'What's the CIA?' The man said 'You collect all our garbage in those boxes and their contents determine how our people live. You'll pass all this information on.' We didn't know what to say to that.
"My dream is to get Californian worms, which make compost from food waste. They convert waste into something useful. It'll be nice to have new animals in the house that aren't cats."
Veronika, 32, and Andrei, 47. Tasya, is 7 years old. They both work at a recycling collection point. © Yelena Lukyanova
Veronika: "Sometimes we come across quite amazing things at the point. One of my favourites was a pre-revolutionary bottle of arsenic. Another find was beautiful Argentinian maté teacup, which I found out from an antiquarian was from the 1940s."
Greenpeace Russia has been leading a project about recycling waste since October 2014. Now, thousands of people are demanding an adequate local recycling system from the government.
More than 170,000 people have signed Greenpeace's petition to their regional government. In some towns, local governments have already started recycling projects with local businesses.
Violetta Ryabko is a Media Coordinator at Greenpeace Russia.
This story originally appeared on Greenpeace Russia's site here.
Brecht Goussey is an organic farmer and runs a community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm in the area of Leuven, Belgium. What he struggles with most is access to healthy soil and affordable land to grow food for his local community. Together with thousands of people, Greenpeace Belgium is crowdfunding a direct support network for farmers just like Brecht.
I'd been working as a social worker for years but, ever since I was a boy, I dreamed of becoming a farmer. Two years ago, I made up my mind. It was time to start doing what I loved the most: cultivating land!
Today, I grow vegetables for approximately 320 people on a 1.5 hectare plot. Those people harvest the vegetables themselves. But I have bigger plans: three colleagues and I aim to cultivate an integrated farm with vegetables, fruits, cereals, potatoes and flowers, as well as cows, sheep and other animals. The manure of the cattle is used to fertilise the soil and we close the cycle on our company, which results in more biodiversity, flowers, wild plants and bees.
But we're not quite there yet. It's uncertain for how long and under what conditions I can keep using my current plot. In a situation like this, it's pointless to invest in permanent crops like rhubarb and fruits or in landscape measures like hedges. How will I ever be able to turn this into a real sustainable farm?
I would like to buy the land myself but, just like many young would-be organic farmers, I don't have enough money to buy agricultural land in Belgium. Speculation, shortage and scaling-up have dramatically increased prices. Oddly enough, land is becoming more expensive than what you can produce on it in an entire career.
Luckily, I'm not alone. I'm being supported by 'De Landgenoten' ('The Countrymen'), a cooperative that buys farmland and rents it to organic farmers. Together, we're looking for people, organisations and companies who would like to invest in this programme. If we collect enough money to buy 'my' plot of land, I will be able to cultivate it for the rest of my life. Thereafter, 'De Landgenoten' make the land available for other farmers.
This method suits my philosophy perfectly. Agricultural land must not stay in the hands of only a few big companies or rich individuals. We have to return our land to our local communities. Furthermore, we need more organic farmers who, instead of impoverishing the soil, embrace it and protect it for generations to come. And not with artificial manure, which only improves the fertility for the short term, but with crop rotation, compost and diversity. We need farmers who improve the ecosystem and stimulate an increase of biodiversity.
Together with Greenpeace Belgium, you can directly support the work of 'De Landgenoten' in Flanders, and 'Terre-en-vue' in Wallonia, and the dozens of ecological farmers they provide with affordable land. For me, these first square metres mean one I am step closer to renting my 1.5 hectare plot. This cooperative understood that we – all together – need to improve access to ecological farmland and healthy soil. This will be key to determine the future of farming across Belgium – and further afield.
Discover more on the project page of the crowdfunding (in Dutch and French)
Brecht Goussey is an organic farmer in Leuven, Belgium.
Today, Munduruku Indigenous representatives and activists traveled thousands of kilometres from the heart of the Brazilian Amazon to the annual shareholder's meeting of General Electric (GE) in the United States. Their goal: to confront the company on its involvement in destructive hydroelectric mega dams in the Amazon.
The Munduruku are fighting a massive hydroelectric project – the São Luiz do Tapajós mega dam – along the Tapajós River in the Amazon Rainforest that would displace entire villages and destroy livelihoods. As Munduruku leader Adalto Jair Munduruku explains, "We journeyed here to speak to the leadership of GE and meet those that would consider profiting off the displacement of thousands of people from our traditional lands against our will, destroying our natural environment. The traditional population uses very well this territory. When we are forced out of our land, we lose our traditional livelihoods."
Munduruku leaders, together with their allies, are showing up to speak directly to corporate decision makers around the world – from Austrian engineering company Andritz, to Siemens in Germany, to GE today – because these corporations make massive hydropower projects possible. Some have even been involved in devastating mega dam projects before.
GE recently acquired the hydropower business of the French company Alstom who supplied equipment to the another massive Amazon dam project – called Belo Monte. Alstom, prior to being merged with GE, had reportedly been in discussions to supply the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.
Austrian company Andritz was also involved in the construction of the Belo Monte dam, as well as another massive dam called Ilisu in Turkey. Both projects destroyed biodiversity and the homes of thousands of people.
Siemens, too, has a history of involvement in such projects. The company also provided turbines and generators for the Belo Monte dam.
At GE's meeting today, Antonia Melo – the leader of Xingu Vivo, a Brazilian organisation resisting Belo Monte – joined the Munduruku. Antonia has been displaced by Belo Monte, watched her river get destroyed and witnessed the environmental consequences of the project firsthand. As detailed in a recent Greenpeace Brazil report, the infamous Belo Monte dam displaced thousands like Antonia, and is even embroiled in a corruption scandal.
We must make sure none of these companies choose to be involved in the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.
The Munduruku have been adamantly fighting against damming the Tapajós River for over a decade. They have called on Siemens not to destroy their home. They have stood in front of Andritz's front door and demanded the company keep its hands off the Amazon.
Now they are here at GE's annual meeting, and GE is at crossroads. The company needs to listen to the Munduruku leaders. GE is already the largest supplier of wind power in Brazil. It can stop contributing to destructive, wasteful mega dam projects and instead contribute to the growth of Brazil's clean energy solutions.
This past week the São Luiz do Tapajós project was stalled when its environmental licensing process was suspended – but not definitively cancelled. Now is the right moment for GE and all corporations considering involvement to publicly declare that they will have no part in São Luiz do Tapajós.
Stand with the Munduruku and help keep the Tapajós alive.
Daniel Brindis is a senior forest campaigner at Greenpeace USA.
"I have a visual at two o'clock!" We rush to the 'monkey island', the highest platform of the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, where watchers scan the ocean from sunrise to sunset. The ship changes course and heads towards the small floating construction of bamboo, nets and buoys. It's day four of our expedition and our third catch.
A Greenpeace campaigner scans the horizon for fish aggregating devices from the monkey nest of Greenpeace ship Esperanza.
The 'catch' we're after are marine snares called FADs – fish aggregating devices – used by the fishing industry. Fish congregate under floating objects and these simple, handmade rafts attract schools of tuna. But scores of other marine species, including sharks, are also drawn by the rafts and the small ecosystem growing beneath. These animals mostly end up indiscriminately caught, killed and dumped overboard.
Marine life congregating under fish aggregating devices are often scooped up indiscriminately.
Greenpeace is in the Indian Ocean to document and protest this destructive fishing method used by Thai Union, the world's largest tuna company, and to pull the FADs we find out of the ocean.
Finding the FADs is a full time job. Luckily the whole crew is in. At least three people are on watch, looking for the harmful gear that comes disguised as an innocent raft of bamboo, old nets and buoys. Another way to detect FADs is to look up. The fish these marine snares attract swim quite close to the surface and attract birds. So when we see a bird circling around, all eyes track the bird.
Most fishing vessels use the same techniques to locate their small 'floating lures'. Only they will have about five people on the lookout, and a GPS-signal transmitted by a beacon attached to their FAD. This gives them a pretty detailed idea of where to look. We have to rely on our eyes.
To widen our visual range, we have two other tools. One is a small helicopter and a very enthusiastic heli-team. When weather allows and the area seems interesting, they fly out to scout. They're also on the lookout for fishing vessels.
Secondly, we have three UAV (unmanned air vehicles) at our disposal and someone who knows how to fly them. They haven't flown yet and it's the first time we're using them in the search for FADs, so fingers crossed.
A Greenpeace RHIB is deployed to investigate a fish aggregating device.
With a FAD in our sights a RHIB (rigid-hulled inflatable boat) is sent out to the raft. After documenting the marine life swimming beneath it, we bring it on board the Esperanza. Then we track down the owner with the data written on the beacon. It's from a French fishing company. Our earlier research reveals that this company supplies Thai Union. This is direct evidence that the fishing companies that Thai Union gets its tuna from still fish with FADs, despite the damage they do to our oceans.
The data is sent to the teams on shore, who work hard to put pressure on Thai Union from every part of this globe to stop supporting this unsustainable fishing method. Meanwhile, we start the engines and continue our search.
Join the wave of opposition to Thai Union's destructive fishing.
François Chartier is an Oceans Campaign Leader for Greenpeace France.
The word nadeshda means hope in Russian. The Nadesha rehabilitation centre was founded to give hope to children living in towns and villages contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster.
Thousands of children across Belarus have been robbed of a healthy childhood. Their food and playgrounds are contaminated. Their health weakened by radiation.
At Nadeshda I meet Elena Solovyeva, a teacher from the heavily contaminated Mogilev region, who has brought her class to the centre. She tells me that around 40% of her students have health problems: asthma, diabetes and cancer or weak immune, respiratory and digestive systems.
"We explain to the kids where their problems come from. They get it. We breathe contaminated air, we eat contaminated food… You never get used to it, but it is almost impossible to get away from," she says.
Nadeshda was founded not only to help care for the health of the children, and now grandchildren, of Chernobyl, but also to teach them how to live in a contaminated environment.
Olga Sokolova, a doctor at Nadeshda, tells me: "We explain to them what they should do and what they shouldn't. What to eat and what not to eat, where to go and where not to go, how to take care of themselves."
I'm saddened talking to Olga. A great injustice has been done to the children who come here. Before they were even born, Chernobyl stole their ability to grow and to play without inhibition. It is now left to the children to protect themselves from radiation.
"Our aim is to help children to understand their responsibility for their own health," Nadeshda's director Vyacheslav Makushinsky tells me.
It's unfair, but it's the reality for millions of Chernobyl survivors. Teaching responsibility and living by example - those are the basic principles of Nadeshda. While governments and the nuclear industry walk away from their responsibilities, survivors come together at places like Nadeshda.
What's beautiful about the centre is that people are not only coming together to support each other, they've also taken it on themselves to show the world that there is no need for nuclear power.
As the Belarus government builds a new nuclear reactor just 80 kilometers away from here, Nadeshda is retrofitting its buildings so that it can be powered by 100% renewable energy.
Nadeshda has the most powerful solar heating system in Belarus, and all its buildings and electrical devices are energy efficient.
The centre is now installing new solar photovoltaic systems on a nearby field to cover all their energy needs.
"We're showing how even a big institution like ours can operate without harming nature," Makushinsky says.
The director is enthusiastic: it will be the first project in Belarus of such a scale financed solely from donations. I'm proud that a Greenpeace-run foundation is part of it by donating 15,000 euros to help make it happen.
Makushinsky tells me why it's so important for the centre to go renewable: "The kids must learn to live in such a way that they preserve their health and make sure that a catastrophe like Chernobyl doesn't happen again."
Speaking to Makushinsky I realise how hope inspires action. The suffering caused by Chernobyl shows why we need to get rid of nuclear power for good. The persistence of Makushinsky and others at the Nadeshda centre shows that another way is possible, if we only try.
Nearby, a group of children are drawing pictures of the Chernobyl disaster and their dreams of non-nuclear future. Above them hangs a banner saying "We are the earth's hope." Indeed they are. And they should inspire all of us to support them and to speak up for a renewable future where disasters like Chernobyl or Fukushima would be a long forgotten nightmare.
Andrey Allakhverdov is a communications officer with Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe.
As Indonesia's president announces a temporary ban on palm oil development, one of the world's biggest palm oil traders faces a customer revolt over its deforestation in Borneo… and it could lead to some big wins for forest protection.
Remnant forest beside artificial drainage and recent plantation development in IOI's PT Bumi Sawit Sejahtera oil palm concession.
Earlier this month [PDF], the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) finally took action on palm oil company IOI, suspending its certification because it was destroying rainforests in Borneo. Now the destructive company can no longer claim its palm oil is "sustainable".
IOI is huge: it supplies palm oil to over 300 companies, including the household brands whose products line our supermarket shelves. It's also hugely destructive. Greenpeace International first documented IOI's destruction of orangutan habitat in the 2008 report Burning up Borneo.
Since then, IOI has carried on destroying forests and draining peatlands – and carried on getting caught. Last November, when fires were blazing across Indonesia, our team exposed massive fires in and around its concessions in Borneo.
IOI has also been accused of serious social and labour issues including conflicts with local communities and exploitation of workers on its Malaysian plantations.
But finally IOI is in the firing line – and its customers are leaving in droves. At least thirteen international brands including Unilever, Kellogg and Mars have agreed to stop buying palm oil from the toxic company.
Interestingly, both Colgate and Johnson & Johnson – two of the worst performing companies in our palm oil scorecard that rated 14 global consumer goods companies - were amongst those breaking ties with the palm oil giant. (PepsiCo, which also failed in our survey, doesn't buy from IOI.) It's a great example of how pressure from hundreds of thousands of us gets results!
Greenpeace activists protest in front of Johnson & Johnson headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with nearly half a million signatures asking the company to buy only responsible palm oil.
With IOI's customers in revolt, the company will be putting enormous pressure on the RSPO to resolve this quickly so it can continue with business as usual. But we can't let it get away with a half-hearted apology – we need to push for real protection for Indonesia's forests!
Last year, devastating forest fires blazed across Indonesia affecting wildlife, peatlands and spawning a toxic haze that affected millions of people across the region. Indonesia's president responded by ordering peatlands to be protected and recently promised a moratorium on palm oil expansion. But there is little sign that the industry is listening.
Without radical change from companies like IOI, the deadly fires will return in just a few months.
Forest clearance in an IOI palm oil concession, PT Bumi Sawit Sejahtera (PT BSS) in West Kalimantan (2014)
IOI should listen to President Jokowi. As one of the world's biggest palm oil traders, IOI could set an example for other palm oil companies by protecting and restoring the forests and peatlands it has damaged – starting with its concessions in Ketapang, Borneo.
That would be a major breakthrough for Indonesia's rainforests, and help protect Indonesian citizens from devastating forest fires and haze. But is IOI ready to make a difference?
Kiki Taufik is the Global Head of Indonesia's Forest Campaign at Greenpeace Indonesia.
Want to protect Indonesia's forests and make sure companies like IOI stop destroying forests and peatlands for palm oil? Take action here.
People in Europe have massively rejected GMOs, and our governments have started to ban their cultivation, but agrochemical companies have cooked up a new way to get GMOs onto the European market. They are claiming that GMOs which are produced through a range of new techniques aren't in fact GMOs.
Don't let unlabelled or untested GMOs in through the back door.
If the companies get their way, GM plants and animals could soon end up on our fields and on our dinner table without any safety testing or labelling - and without any way to ban them. And we wouldn't even know! European law requires that GMOs undergo a detailed assessment of health and environmental risks, as well as labelling, to allow consumer choice.
The European Commission said that it would publish a legal opinion to tell national governments what's in and what's out of EU GMO law. Internal documents obtained under freedom of information rules reveal that the Commission was set to confirm that the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) produced through new techniques referred to as gene-editing are covered by the law. This means that they would need to undergo safety testing and labelling before being placed on the market.
Why then didn't the European Commission publish the opinion as planned? Well, it seems that not only the GMO companies, but also the US government, lobbied heavily so that the Commission wouldn't classify gene-edited plants and animals as GMOs. These new GMOs are largely unregulated in the US, which is why a letter from the US warned of "potentially significant trade disruptions" from the application of EU GMO law. It suggests that the EU should ignore its health and environmental safeguards to pave the way for a new transatlantic trade agreement (TTIP).
The next round of TTIP negotiations starts on 25 April 2016 in New York.
EU GMO laws are designed to protect our health and environment. They shouldn't be sidelined for the sake of TTIP and industry profits. Tell European leaders to act now - sign the petition.
Franziska Achterberg is the food policy director for Greenpeace EU.
Today, on Earth Day, more than 165 countries sign a global agreement - Paris Climate Agreement - to protect our environment. This is a record turnout for an international agreement. It is an encouraging sign. After many years of foot-dragging, the world is finally coming together to confront climate change, the most urgent issue of our time.
We are seeing agreement to take action to prevent a climate catastrophe only after many years of hard work. Above all, it is thanks to people all over the world standing up for action. Before the Paris climate summit an estimated 800,000 people marched for a safer climate.
The countries most vulnerable to climate change stood together and demanded that global warming be limited to 1.5 degrees C compared to pre-industrial times. A threshold we must not exceed for the sake of countries in the Pacific and poorer developing countries. Progressive businesses, meanwhile, showed that a 100% renewable future is possible, by committing to go 100% renewable themselves.
This combined pressure resulted in an agreement that sends a clear signal that the age of fossil fuels is ending. An agreement that makes staying within 1.5 degrees C the benchmark against which all decisions by governments and corporations must be based on.
Ultimately it is cooperation and solidarity that we must now deliver to keep the promise of Paris: a safer world, where people share resources rather than fight over them. Paris needs to be the beginning of a fair transition to a world powered by 100% renewable energy. The groundwork has been laid for real action. Renewable energy, for example, accounted for around 90% of new electricity generation in 2015. But we still have a long way to go.
As the new Executive Directors of Greenpeace International, we want to drive a revolution in how humanity interacts with nature. And we believe we need a revolution, not just in technology, but in attitudes and lifestyles.
All of us have the tools, the ability and the knowledge to build a sustainable world. We know, because people all over the world are campaigning to make a just economy which respects the reality of environmental limits. We are working hard to further reduce coal consumption in China, we are fighting to save the Amazon rainforest for its peoples and to protect the Arctic, our vital global refrigerator. We know that in a warming world, we need an urgent shift to ecological agriculture and ocean sanctuaries so that life in our oceans can recover from the stresses of higher temperatures, overfishing and pollution.
Solutions are not adopted fast enough because of those few who benefit from the destructive status quo. There are still too many powerful people and corporations who benefit from the spoiling of our global commons.
It is time to end this destruction for private gain, from fishing fleets exploiting the vanishing Arctic ice to European companies supporting the destruction of the Amazon. People are no longer satisfied with governments simply saying they will do something about a problem. They are standing up in growing numbers to make sure governments deliver on their words.
Now is the time to show that we can share the world more equitably, and deliver a decent life for all. It is time for a vision of humanity being part of nature and of cooperating to save the beautiful planet we depend on. This is what we get out of bed for every morning.
It's also why we feel it's important that we at Greenpeace - who vigorously hold polluters to account - show that a more cooperative approach works. We are the first Executive Directors of Greenpeace International to share this post. We do so, not just because it is nice to divide the workload and learn from each other, but because we want to show that cooperation brings real benefits. If we - the two of us - bring out the best in each other, we get a better organisation. If we - all of us - bring out the best in humanity, we get a better world.
So, we welcome that the world is coming together this week to say: "we will fix the climate emergency." We are truly encouraged by this global response to a global problem.
And, together with all of you, we look forward to ensuring that this is indeed the beginning of something new. The beginning of a renewable era, built on trust and cooperation.
Together, we can ensure that the businesses and investors who continue to put greed before the interests of people and our planet find themselves on the wrong side of history. Together, we can show a better way, with less selfishness and more community.
We hope to meet you on this journey - and travel together over the coming years.
Jennifer Morgan and Bunny McDiarmid are the Executive Directors of Greenpeace International.
More than 45 years ago – on the very first Earth Day – tens of millions of people decided to do something about environmental destruction. They rallied against pollution, oil spills, pesticides and deforestation… issues that continue to resonate with us today.
Their activism remains inspiring. But as Earth Day comes and goes each year, we can't just celebrate the past. The day must be a rallying cry for action in this present moment! This Earth Day, challenge yourself, your friends and your community to step up and make a change.
Want to get moving but don't know where to start? Here are a just a few ways you can do something for the planet right now.
Last December, world leaders met at the Paris climate summit and created an agreement – which many will sign on Earth Day – marking the beginning of the end for fossil fuels. But this agreement alone is not enough to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. It's up to all of us (world leaders included) to take more action to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and build a 100% renewable energy future.
Take action in your own community this May to break free from fossil fuels.
Last year, people used 1.6 Earths worth of natural resources. Our fascination with throwaway packaging and plastic is harming wildlife, the ocean and maybe even ourselves. This Earth Day, pledge to simply use less stuff!
Our food system is broken. Industrial agriculture is polluting water, destroying habitat and harming our health. The livestock sector alone contributes to climate change at least as much as all trucks, cars and planes combined! But you can fight back, starting in your own kitchen. Make a personal commitment to help change our food system – from starting a garden, to eating less (or no) meat.
And if you (or your feline friend) eat tuna, check out these shopping guides to make sure the fish you buy isn't connected to labour abuse or ocean destruction.
Across the globe, Indigenous Peoples and forest communities are fighting deforestation that threatens their livelihoods. Add your voice in solidarity: from Indonesia to Brazil.
Every piece of clothing we buy has an impact on our planet well before it enters our closet. Throwaway fashion sucks up water, uses huge amounts chemicals and encourages waste. But you can break this cycle. How? As fashion designer Vivienne Westwood advised, "Buy less, choose well, make it last."
Art and activism go hand in hand. So make art that shows how you want the world to be! Already, over a thousand artists have contributed their own work to speak out against Arctic destruction. Check out their powerful works here, and add your own!
In your city, in your neighbourhood, in your own life. This may be the most important lesson from the original Earth Day: Each of us has the power to make the world a little better.
This list just scratches the surface of the actions we can take for the planet. See something missing? Share it with us in the comments. And have a happy Earth Day!
Dawn Bickett is the content editor for Greenpeace in the Americas.
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