Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Lines; Peru to Prosecute

ricochet.com ^ | 12/10/2014 | Jon Gabriel

[Jabba the Nutt]

The United Nations is holding climate talks in Lima, Peru, featuring delegates from 190 countries. To get their attention, the anti-science extremists of Greenpeace illegally entered a prohibited area adjacent to one of the most famous Nazca Lines.

The activists trampled across the fragile, 1,500-year-old site to install large cloth letters reading: “Time for Change; The Future is Renewable.” To put it mildly, Peruvian officials are not amused.

[Jabba the Nutt]

When I first saw this, I thought it was a parody. I thought it was photoshopped. It isn't.

Greenpeace said: " “The peaceful protest by Greenpeace in the area of the Nazca lines was to demonstrate the impacts of climate change and honour the historical legacy of this town who learned to live with the environment without affecting it,” said Greenpeace legal advisor Henry Carhuatocto."

Jon Gabriel wrote: "Actually Henry, this ancient community so affected the environment that we can still enjoy their amazing artwork a millennia and a half later.

Here's a link to the BBC article on the desecration.

And a photo:

All this effort, go to Peru, go to Nazca, prepare banners, set up banners, all for a totally moronic message: "The future is renewable". WTH? I guess they're referring to "renewable energy". There's evidence that the Earth renews it's oil supplies. Old oilfields are refilling. Is that what they mean? Extremely doubtful. So-called "renewable energy" will never, ever, ever be able to supply the needs of people for energy. Not going to happen, ever. Can't be done. Nature is a b*tch. Physics is a b*tch. Reality is not fantasy. Grow up.

[defconw]

To bad there was nothing tho make them compost.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Chalk another one up for clueless, lawless agitators.

[Pontiac]

Nature is a b*tch. Physics is a b*tch. Reality is not fantasy. Grow up.

Reality doesn’t matter to people with an Utopian agenda.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Hope they enjoy their stay...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Greenpeace is a nice organization...."

[SMARTY]

What a bunch of smug and immature, tunnel-vision morons!

[Bitsy]

I hope they have to sell their toys like the submarine and that fancy boat and all the rest of the stuff their rich benefactors supply them with.

[JimRed]

Hey, it’s Peru. Why prosecute? Just find the perps, one by one or en masse and “disappear” them. It’s not like foreign eco-terrorists are protected under their constitution.

[Jabba the Nutt]

I was trying to b*tchslap them out of their utopianism and grow up. Or at least the hangers-on. If you’re in Greenpeace, you may be hopeless, but there are people on the edge who can be deterred.

[Pontiac]

Hope they enjoy their stay...

These jerks usually pull their stunts in first world countries with nice clean modern prisons.

Well Peru is not first world or modern.

Like you said; hope they enjoy their stay.

[Da Bilge Troll]

The ends justify the means.

[defconw]

:)

[Pontiac]

I think you would slap your hand to a bruised and bloody pulp before you slapped a Green Peace follower in to reality.

;)

[Farmer Dean]

I recommend sap gloves for work like that.

[molson209]

D’oh , Greenpeace never heard of Photoshop ?

[Pontiac]

Noted

Advice much appreciated.

But what about rotator cuff injuries?

;)

[pallis]

Group narcissists use graffiti and vandalism to express their difficult lives when internet masturbation stops satisfying them.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Just find the perps, one by one or en masse and “disappear” them.

Stake them to the ground somewhere in the Peruvian rain forest.

Something will eat them eventually.

I would think that getting eaten by jungle critters would be a “dream ending” for enviro-weenies.

[Cold Heart]

Be interesting to see the follow up on this one.