The World Health Organization reports that in new estimates released, in 2012 around 7 million people died -one in eight of total global deaths- as a result of air pollution (“7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution”). This estimates confirmed that contamination is now the world largest single environmental health risk. Reducing this could save millions of lives. One of the largest independent direct-action environmental organization in the world is Greenpeace, which “defend the natural world and promote peace by investigating, exposing, and confronting environmental abuse, championing environmentally responsible solutions, and advocating for the rights and well-being of all people” (“What We Do”). There are a bunch of organizations looking for the well being of the environment and the people. These environmental organizations are necessary to create awareness, enact legislation and to assure a better future not only for us but for future generations as well. Greenpeace says that their “focus is on big political and corporate changes, just as much as it is on empowering people in our network to act in their homes and communities” (“What We Do”). Green Cross have a change program, which promotes education about environmental sustainability, the values of the Earth and organizing Earth Dialogues (“Our Mission”). As these organizations, there are much more that have the same goals and missions, not only to act and help but also to create awareness about every environmental risk. Almost every environmental organization have Web pages and social media to spread the information, education and consciousness. Another reason to say that environmental organizations are necessary is
because they enact legislation. These organizations help to create laws to conserve and reduce the environmental health. Earth-justice is an organization that fights for a healthy environment they say that the Earth needs a lawyer. “Earth-justice was