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Greenpeace Admits Targeting Apple Grabs Headlines
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo published this morning allegations by the bromine industry claiming that Greenpeace's report on the iPhone was inaccurate and alarmist. They got an official rebuttal to the bromine industry by Greenpeace, but the most interesting part is their acknowledgment that their targeting of Apple, even while they have similar reports on every manufacturer, is a deliberate attempt to grab headlines. While it's logical and not surprising, I find it quite shocking to see them be so cavalier, and even hypocritical, about it."
See the novel State of Fear...it's not too far off it seems...
For the sake of Peace, the Sword.
And so more than half of those afflicted with this wrong information will think GREENPEACE when they see an iPhone. Brilliant, but sinister.
As I child, I idealized Greenpeace. They were saving the whales, for goodness' sake.
About five years ago, I woke up.
Greenpeace is now a blackmail organization. This crap with Apple - they pull the same thing with many other respected companies, and have sullied the name of an organization that used to be truly, vehemently, for the good of the earth.
Now it's just a marketing organization for a bunch of radical trustafarians out to make a name for themselves.
You don't have to be a tin foil hatter to see that green peace does not promote polices that will lead to an improved human condition. For one thing, they routinely target the electronics industry, probably the cleanest industry around. Not only do electronics make our lives better by organizing information and promoting communication, but they make industry itself more efficient. But it is targeted by green peace because that's where the money is, and it's easy to promote fear when new technology is involved.
Another good example is GMOs. Green-peace is always decrying pesticides, but then the come out against GMOs. WTF? The whole point of GMOs is that you won't have to use pesticides anymore!!!! If green peace cares about the environment, they should be all for GMOs, right? Please don't reply to this post with some nonsense about round-up ready corn, it's still better than the alternative.
Probably the best example is nuclear power. Nuclear power does not emit pollution into the environment, period. That's good, right? But no, green peace is completely against it. What the hell is going on?!?
This supposedly environmentalist organization is always coming out against new technologies that will improve environmental quality. I'll tell you what, either they don't know anything about the environment, or they are not an environmentalist organization. I'm not going to speculate what their motives and intentions are, but either way they're a menace to society.