Chapter 64 and Articles

 In Chapter 64, author Paul Wapner discusses Greenpeace, an organization that "uses peaceful protest and creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green, just, and joyful future." (Greenpeace.org/usa). Greenpeace is a nonstate organization. A nonstate organization, the way I understand it, is an institution that works outside of the government, like NGO's, and works to fill in and help with the holes that governments leave behind, particularly in rights and overall development. The chapter discusses the main functions that Greenpeace hosts, being a protesting group that focuses on bettering the general public's well-being and livelihoods. Greenpeace manually tries to alter the prevailing social norms and values, by attempting to change the public's "conceptions of reality." The organization hopes that this will allow people to take "more respectful" action that is most ecologically beneficial for the earth itself.

While reading through the NYT article, about the Barbados Rebellion in 2018, seeing the phrase: "Barbados was out of money" made me stop and think 'how can an entire country be out of money?' And then that thought train led me back to Jamaica and its (relatively) recent financial situation. While Barbados is in financial debt, sitting at around $8 billion, Jamaica is in an even worse spot, at nearly double. This made me further read and research the reasons for Barbados' debt, being a Caribbean island nation like Jamaica: the natural disasters that frequently strike on these areas. In addition to the overshadowing of much more powerful countries, like the US and England, which were kind of the reason for Jamaica's downfall, the climate / weather is another big player in the spiraling destruction of smaller nations. They have little in terms of fortification against such events, which leads to unstoppable destruction, such as the hurricane that made landfall in October of last year.

(couldnt access washington post article)