Greenpeace is an international environmental organization founded in
Vancouver, Canada in 1971. Its goal is to assure the ability of the earth to 【M1】______.
nurture life in all its diversity.
Greenpeace has identified global climate change as one of the greatest threats
to the planet. Governments mid scientists likely have agreed that the problem is 【M2】______.
mil, and serious. Last year at the climate summit, industrialized countries a
greed, at most on paper, to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other green 【M3】______.
house gases they pump into the atmosphere. But crucial details, which the success 【M4】______.
or failure of the agreements rests, are still under negotiation, and in the meantime
a little real action is being taken to address the problem. 【M5】______.
Greenpeace is therefore campaigning for governments to face about to their 【M6】______.
responsibilities and urgently address this problem. The longer action is delayed,
the more drastically it will need to be in order to avoid dangerous interference 【M7】______.
with the planet's climate from the go called greenhouse gases.
Governments. should be leading the way to a fundamental new energy 【M8】______.
direction based on clean renewable energy, like wind or solar power. But at
present many governments instead use taxpayers' money to support the agenda
of the companies which continue to spend billions of dollars in development【M9】______.
of coal, oil or gas--the climate-damaging fossil fuels.
Scientists estimate that we can only afford to release a limited amount
of carbon into the atmosphere, nevertheless, we pass the "safe" limits of【M10】______.
climate change. Greenpeace believes that a temperature increase of I degree
C is the absolute maximum that should be allowed.
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