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Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site
HughPickens.com writes The NYT reports that Peruvian authorities say Greenpeace activists have damaged the fragile, and restricted, landscape near the Nazca lines, ancient man-made designs etched in the Peruvian desert when they placed a large sign that promoted renewable energy near a set of lines that form the shape of a giant hummingbird. The sign was meant to draw the attention of world leaders, reporters and others who were in Lima, the Peruvian capital, for a United Nations summit meeting aimed at reaching an agreement to address climate change. Greenpeace issued a statement apologizing for the stunt at the archaeological site and its international executive director, Kumi Naidoo, flew to Lima to apologize for scarring one of Peru's most treasured national symbols. "We are not ready to accept apologies from anybody," says Luis Jaime Castillo, the vice minister for cultural heritage. "Let them apologize after they repair the damage."
"But repair may not be possible. The desert around the lines is made up of white sand capped by a darker rocky layer. By walking through the desert the interlopers disturbed the upper layer, exposing the lighter sand below. Visits to the site are closely supervised — ministers and presidents have to seek special permission and special footwear to tread on the fragile ground where the 1,500 year old lines are cut. "A bad step, a heavy step, what it does is that it marks the ground forever," says Castillo. "There is no known technique to restore it the way it was." Castillo says that the group walked in single file through the desert, meaning that they made a deep track in the ground then they spread out in the area where they laid the letters, making many more marks over a wide area. "The hummingbird was in a pristine area, untouched,". Castillo added. "Perhaps it was the best figure."
So they are as despicable as BP, who trashed the Gulf of Mexico, because they made a mistake? That sounds like a very reasonable assessment.
A brain is a terrible thing to waste... Mind? That's debatable.
Then please tell us how a rake would not work.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Like I said, a very reasonable assessment. BP = mistake, Greepeace = evil egomaniacs. Of course the profit motive for BP was much less evil than the trying to save the earth from the likes of BP, which is the motive that drives Greenpeace. Very reasonable indeed.
A brain is a terrible thing to waste... Mind? That's debatable.
Oh please, Millennials are far worse than any other generation. They're the primary reason Barrack Obama was elected, after all. (For proof, notice this last election where Millennials stayed home (because they can't be bothered to vote if there aren't meme pictures about it), and note the way it swung.)
You mean the one where more people voted for Democrats than for Republicans? If you want to argue the election outcomes, you need to look at gerrymandering. Explain why is Austin TX split into 6 districts, five of which are almost entirely rural zones outside of Austin itself.
As for the rest of the drek in you post: Boomers gave us the Korean War, The Vietnam War, and every other war since. They gave us Chernobyl, Bopal, the Valdez, Deep Water Horizon, the 2008 financial crisis, 1960's race riots and the legacy of redlining and other discriminatory practices since then.
Millennials didn't invent the selfie, you half wit, that was GenX/GenY. GenY invented it and sold and marketed it to Gen0. You don't like Gen0, blame their parents and their grandparents and yourself for the self-entitled narcissisticly myopic view you raised your own kids with in between rounds of golf. You poison the world to the point that large populated swaths will be rendered uninhabitable this century and you want to blame them? *headshake*
"While this stunt is nothing, if not stupid"
The destruction of an important cultural, ecological, and archaeological site is nothing but a stunt, eh?
What fucked up world do you come from?
Damnit Khyber, we are opposed to forcible child rape, same sex of otherwise, and we're sick of you defending pedophilia, by omission of condemnation, on this site. Why don't you come out and admit that it is wrong, like the rest of us? No all you do is go off on tangents and misconstrue what others say.
I am not a member of NAMBLA and I think men forcibly raping 8yo boys is wrong. You've never stated that, have you? Why not? What is it you are hiding?
Or maybe when someone condemns the stunt itself, they are referring to the deliberate goal of putting a sign and not the incidental and entirely unintentional damage to the site itself from footprints. The greenpeace activists aren't archeologists trained in that sort of soil analysis. If you want to conflate GP's sign walkers destruction with Deepwater Horizon's "mistake", which would have earned them millions in bonuses if they hadn't come up snake eyes that time, then you can take your NAMBLA membership and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.