In groups, think of some practical proposals to Ukrainian government which, in your opinion,might guarantee better environment for future generations. Give your arguments

9. What do you know about Greenpeace? Do you know any practical achievements of this organization?Have you ever witnessed its activity in Ukraine?

Read more about Greenpeace and its activity:

Greenpeace is an international organization dedicated to preserving endangered species of animals, preventing environmental abuses, and heightening environmental awareness through direct confrontations with polluting corporations and governmental authorities.

Greenpeace was founded in 1971 in British Columbia to oppose U.S. nuclear testing at Amchitka Island in Alaska. This organization quickly attracted support from ecologically minded individuals and began undertaking campaigns trying to protect endangered whales and seals from hunting, to stop the dumping of toxic chemical and radioactive wastes at sea and nuclear-weapons testing.

The primary tactic of Greenpeace has been such "direct, nonviolent actions" as steering small inflatable craft between the harpoon guns of whalers and their prey and the plugging of industrial pipes discharging toxic wastes into the oceans and the atmosphere. On the ice floes of Newfoundland, Greenpeace volunteers placed their bodies between the gaffs of the seal hunters and the helpless seal pups. In the North Atlantic, Greenpeace drove its inflatables underneath falling barrels of radioactive waste.

Such dangerous and dramatic actions brought Greenpeace wide media attention and helped mobilize public opinion against environmentally destructive practices. Greenpeace also actively sought support of national and international official bodies, sometimes with considerable success. The organization has a small staff and relies largely on voluntary staffing and funding. On July 10, 1985, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, which was due to sail to Moruroa Atoll to protest French atmospheric nuclear-weapons tests there, was sunk by two bomb explosions while berthed in Auckland Harbour, N.Z. Subsequent revelations that French intelligence agents had planted the bombs caused a major international scandal and led to the resignation of France's minister of defense and the dismissal of the head of its intelligence service.

Do you know any other organizations which take care of environment?

10. CONFERENCE “EARTH IN THE 21 CENTURY”

Purpose: to discuss the major issues of environmental protection and the impact of human activity on our planet; to work out a list of proposals, measures, requirements, etc. to ensure healthier environment for the 21^st century

Participants:

(Participants of the conference represent two opposing sides – scientists and ecologists vs businessmen and functionaries. In their speeches both sides express their concern about the present-day ecological situation but their inerests as regards the prospects of human-environment relationship inevitably differ.)

a Greenpeace activist an ecologist, expert in atmospheric pollution a professor of an agricultural academy the head of the climate and weather research centre a specialist on marine habitats the chief research supervisor of a biosphere reserve, professor of zoology

a manager of an oil-processing plant the director of an atomic power plant a minister of agriculture the chief manager of an automobile plant the mayor of a big industrial city the owner of a ship company

Each participant is given 5-7 minutes to speak about the situation in his field and practical proposals to improve the situation. Each report is to be followed by questions to the speaker asked by other participants. After hearing all reports the participants are supposed to have a general discussion to make a list of practical proposals addressed to the governments (parliaments)of the world with the aim of saving humanity from ecological crisis.