How a Greenpeace stunt in Peru drives home the global climate divide

Washington Post ^ | 12-10-2014 | Nick Miroff

[Citizen Zed]

When the stunt-planners at Greenpeace sent teams of activists to trespass this week at Peru's Nazca archeological site, they must have thought their bumper-sticker messaging would look good on a Facebook page next to the 2,000-year-old geodesic drawings.

After all, the group is known for stringing banners from bridges and skyscrapers to draw attention to its environmental campaigns, and with U.N. climate talks taking place in Lima this week, the activists clearly wanted to make an impact.

And so they have. The impact of their footprints on the fragile desert site, in fact, will last "hundreds or thousands of years," according to outraged Peruvian officials.

So furious is the Peruvian government that it has barred the Greenpeace activists from leaving the country and is preparing criminal charges for "attacking archeological monuments," punishable by up to eight years in prison.

[Slings and Arrows]

Succinct and accurate.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This imbecility is analogous to those PUSSY RIOT/FEMEN stunts where they rip off Catholic and Orthodox sanctuaries by desecrating them with their lewd prancing and screaming. They don’t think anything is sacred except their own self-advertisements.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

That’s gonna leave a mark...

[NorthMountain]

Loaf ===> Loaves

so ...

Oaf ===> Oaves ???

[martin_fierro]

Because Photoshopping the same image would’ve been too much work. < |:/~

[TsonicTsunami08]

Didn’t the Russian Spetsnaz pinch a bunch of Greenies off one of their oil platforms? That must have been fun for the Green peaceniks.
What became of them?

[martin_fierro]

[tanknetter]

Isnt the punk they think killed Natalie Holloway stuck in a Peruvian prison?

Last I heard, he wasn’t having all that good of a time.

[Trillian]

I'm surprised it's only 8 years. Environmental wackos seem they think they are above the law no matter what country they are from.
The Greenpeace members who participated were from Germany, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Spain and Austria, according to the group

[Uversabound]

Where the mental insanity comes before the environment.

They are mental all right!

[June2]

Akin to the actiions of another infamous terrorist group.....the Taliban, who destroyed the Buddha statues.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks a fool in paradise and BenLurkin.

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• Greenpeace activists facing charges over stunt Peru says damaged ancient archaeological marvel
• All for the Cause: Greenpeace Cultural Terrorists Desecrate Peru's Nazca Lines

[Monkey Face]

I hope Peruvian officials throw the keys away so the Bestids can rot. What a collective toilet mentality Greenpeace is.

[1010RD]

8 years in a Peruvian prison and they’ll be lucky to still be alive.

[1010RD]

That can only happen on their off weeks from working to keep Mumia alive.

[Bigg Red]

I hope they are put in the same jail where the Aruban woman-killer is being held.

[Caipirabob]

Laughing my @ss off...