Mini Project # 1 Environmental Organizations

You are to conduct an Internet search to determine which of the three environmental organizations you wish to join. You need to analyze the mission of each organization, then state your reasons for joining a particular one.

• Greenpeace
• National Resource Defense Council
• Wild Spots Foundation

Wild Spots Foundation dedicated to biodiversity in an environment as indicated by different species of plants and animals. Uniquely dedicated to saving valuable habitats around the world.

Greenpeace is the world's most effective environmental activist group dedicated to the issues of climate change, saving our forests, stopping pollution. Greenpeace has been campaigning environmental degradation since 1971. Covering issues on

• Biofuels Under Secrutiny
• A Decade of Antarctic Protection
• Nuclear Blow To UK Cliate Policy
• Whaling Fleet Prevented From Killing Whales

National Resource Defense Council Mission Includes

• Moving America Beyond Oil
• Curbing Global Warming
• Receiving Our Oceans
• Saving Wildlands Across The Americas
• Stemming The Tide Of Toxic Chemicals
• Speeding The Greening Of China

With simuliar issues between Greenpeace and National Resource Defense I choosed National Resource Defense because of there topic on Global Warming which superseeds other that were listed. Being one of the nation's most effective environmental action groups with a mission to safeguard the earth: Its people and animals, and the natural system on which all life depends.

Curbing Global Warming

Our atmosphere is overloaded with heat-trapping carbon dioxide, threatening large-scale disruptions in climate. If we continue pumping carbon into the atmosphere at current rates, then a drastic temperature hike of 3 to 9 degrees by century's end will become inevitable, with disastrous consequences. We must act now to speed the wholesale adoption of cleaner sources of energy both at home and abroad. Global Warming is affecting the world, endangering polar bears and other wildlife and creating more intense storms. A hotter planet means dirtier air water more severve floods and droughts, more wildfires and other serious consequences. It does not stop here other catastrophe such as melting glaciers, early snowmelt will cause more dramatic water shortages in america and other part of the world such as africa; Moreover, rising sea level will lead to coastal flooding on the eastern seaboard especially write here in florida. This is a very serious issues at hand which needs to be address A.S.A.P