Good - hit them hard and don't let up - Greenpeace

Environmental groups have drifted away from their original charter and are now doing severe harm under the guise of saving the planet. From USA Today:

The red hands of Greenpeace
More than 100 Nobel laureates have come together to sign a letter accusing Greenpeace of "crimes against humanity" for the environmental group's anti-scientific stand against genetically modified organisms, in particular the group's effort to stop the use of a kind of rice aimed at eradicating vitamin A deficiency, a scourge that has killed millions in the last decade and blinded tens of millions more. The victims, according to the World Health Organization, are mostly children and pregnant mothers.

While dozens of the 107 Nobel Prize-winning signers are in fields such as physics and economics with little specific relevance to the safety of GMO foods or efforts to fight deadly global health threats, 41 of the Nobel laureates hold the distinction for their work in medicine. They represent Nobel winners from virtually every year from 1989 to 2014.

In the past, Greenpeace has blithely ignored the views of scientists, such as those convened by the National Academy of Sciences, who have repeatedly found genetically-modified food perfectly safe for humans and the environment.

But this letter will be harder to ignore. The scientists essentially accuse the globally-influential environmental group of allowing "one or two million preventable deaths" in impoverished regions of the world to continue year after year based on a stubborn refusal to listen to the facts.

Greenpeace started off doing good work - their findings were based on hard science and not rhetoric. I worked for a few years at their Seattle office when I first moved from Boston in 1982. Quit them in 1986 when they were starting to get into the anti-nuclear and anti-any-kind-of-energy rhetoric. Their leadership had been taken over by cultural marxists and the scientists were jumping ship.

Their co-founder - Dr. Patrick Moore - wrote a wonderful essay earlier in June:  THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF HUMAN CO2 EMISSIONS ON THE SURVIVAL OF LIFE ON EARTH (PDF)

Greenpeace needs to be pounded down to the pavement. They need to have their funding severely cut until they get back to their roots and start doing science again.