Join us. Become a climate activist.

When we take action against environmental crimes, we also take action against despair. And there are times when inspiring other people to take action is by far the most powerful outcome that we could hope for.

When we took our first action in 1971, we were a rag-tag group of hippies sailing against a US nuclear weapons test. We were sailing into impossible odds, with an impossible demand. But the individuals who set off on that voyage inspired an impossible number of people to achieve impossible things.

We've had three decades of experience in making the impossible happen -- an end to nuclear testing, protection of Antarctica from oil and gas exploration, a moratorium on commercial whaling, a ban on ocean dumping and a ban on trade in toxic waste, to name only a few.

We've not only made those changes happen, we made them look inevitable.
Earth Day? Every day from now to December is Earth Day.

This Earth Day, we're using our new video to drive a worldwide mobilisation. We're looking to turn 3 million people into climate activists. Starting with you.

Scientists are sounding more and more alarms about the fate of the ice caps, the acidification of our oceans, the loss of our equatorial rainforests and the consequences all these things will have on low-lying countries, on our health, on our ways of raising food, and the foundations of our civilization.

There are ample reasons for despair.

But many years ago, one of our activists bagged a quote from another famous activist, and summed up the Greenpeace ethos: "The optimism of the action is better than the the pessimism of the thought."

If you agree, we want you, and 2,999,999 people like you to sign up as climate activists.

Our best chance to make a difference

When the UN Climate summit convenes in Copenhagen this December, delegates there will be deciding the fate of the Earth. It's looking more and more likely they will bring us a lot of hot air, not a cooler planet.

YOU need to tell them that's not good enough.

YOU need to raise the bar on the world's expectations.

It's time to get involved. It's time to get your friends involved. It's time to get your parents or your kids involved.

Our first mission is to get the message out that we want our leaders to take personal responsibility for stopping climate change.

The first step to ensuring that the climate summit makes real decision is to make sure that real decision makers are there.

Demand key leaders go to the climate summit: sign our petition

Our leaders can't delegate the fate of the Earth. Tell Obama of the US, Hu of China, Brown of the UK, Merkel of Germany, Sarkozy of France, and Lula of Brazil that they simply have to clear their calendars, show up at the meeting which will secure the future of humanity, and take individual action to get us out of this mess.

This Earth Day, please join us in this conspiracy of hope called Greenpeace, and inspire others to action.


TAKE ACTION!!!!

* Tell world leaders to take personal responsibility for our planet's future, and attend the UN Climate Summit personally.

Today I worked as a fundraiser in Mt. Eden, Auckland, New Zealand. It was possibly one of the toughest days of my life! Mt. Eden is a well off area, full of soccer moms, high priced prams, expensive coffee and huge news papers. OF COURSE they did not have ANY time for Greenpeace!
Their excuse? I'm busy (shopping). I have no cash (only credit cards). I support other charities (Gucci). The reccession is here, I cant afford it (been to Ireland lately???) I think Greenpeace is too violent (????? hello? non violent organisation?). And the one that REALLY got to me.. The man on the radio says that climate change isn't happening.
Now why you ask did this comment really annoy me? Well its cause its exactlly these people who say shit like this drive expensive cars, are wasteful with their electricity and will be the FIRST to complain when the extreem weather hits them. They will then turn around and blame everyone else for it happening; it couldnt possibly be their fault! THEY RECYCLED!
Do you know what i say? YOU ARE ALL WANKERS. YOU LIKE TO BELIEVE THAT SHOPPING FOR SHIT THAT YOU DONT NEED WILL HELP YOU BE A BETTER PERSON. YOU ARE SCARED. YOU HAVE BEEN DIVIDED AND CONQURED BY YOUR GOVERNMENT, YOU ARE A WORKING ANT. Truth is? YOU ARE A WANKER.

In the end, we had to move away from the area that we were in because people started to get abusive. Shop owners stared at us from the safety of their shop windows and gave us the middle finger. We did not retaliate, we mearly laughed. All I can say is that when the flood hit, I hope they cant swim

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" George W Bush, Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

"I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues." George W Bush, 20/20 ABC, 15th September 2000

"I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up." Bush, on David Letterman (who had just had open heart surgery), March 2, 2000. (the audience booed)

"There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of this [web] site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is." George Jr., discussing a web site that parodies him

"It's your money. You paid for it." George W Bush, LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." George W Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." George W Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."George W Bush, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000

"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." George W Bush, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." George W Bush, Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000

"I understand small business growth. I was one." George W Bush, New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." George W Bush, Reuters, May 5, 2000
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"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." George W Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." George W Bush, Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

"They misunderestimated me." George W Bush, Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants." George W Bush in an interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001

"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment." George W Bush in an interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001

"Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to-I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that." George W Bush, Pre-inaugural interview with U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 22, 2001 issue
I'm gonna kill you

"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well." George W Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001

"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." George W Bush, Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001

"It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce." George W Bush, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001

"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." George W Bush, after meeting with the leaders of the European Union, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001

"One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a-a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone." George W Bush, Denver, CO. Aug. 14, 2001

"It's no exaggeration to say the undecideds could go one way or another."At