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New York's Empire State (building light show) highlights endangered animals
BBC ^ | August 2, 2015

Posted on 08/02/2015 5:44:11 AM PDT by Zakeet

The unique display, on one of the world's most recognisable structures, was aimed at sparking conversations about mass extinction.

Pictures of snow leopards, tigers and various sea creatures were shown.

A 350ft (106m) image of Cecil, the famous lion killed in Zimbabwe earlier this month, also appeared.

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In all 160 species were shown, including marine mammals, insects, and even the shadow of King Kong climbing up the building.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ecology; economy; environment; esb; nyc; wildlife
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Those crazy environmentalists will do just about anything to further their cause!

1 posted on 08/02/2015 5:44:11 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

160 species highlighted! Well Done!

What is missing from that?


2 posted on 08/02/2015 5:47:30 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Zakeet

I don’t think the staff at the Empire State building did much to help Kong.


3 posted on 08/02/2015 5:52:06 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Zakeet

What about the plants? Nobody cares about the plants anymore.


4 posted on 08/02/2015 5:56:44 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Gaffer

HA! We were across the river but didn’t see this last night...


5 posted on 08/02/2015 5:58:36 AM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: miss marmelstein

This is the atonement for the destruction of that noble creature whose only fault was that he loved too well and across species lines.

Had that occurred today they would have celebrated the nuptials in the same manner as any Kardashianite wedding.

Or Kong would have been pilloried for really heavy duty stalking...so difficult these times for the morally unhinged.

;>)


6 posted on 08/02/2015 6:02:09 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Zakeet


7 posted on 08/02/2015 6:02:14 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Zakeet
They missed one:


8 posted on 08/02/2015 6:07:09 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: JoeProBono

Too bad they didn’t show a photo of an aborted baby in that light show.


9 posted on 08/02/2015 6:07:41 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: P.O.E.

Get ready Freepers.... this is all tied to your favorite subject. PEOPLE, their babies, and their diminishing interest is saving other people’s babies.

Econ 101 - the more you have of anything, the less value is attached to same. YOU cannot change this gut level, all pervasive, worldwide fundamental law.

Anthropocentrism is finished as the driving philosophy of governments, academia — hell, Even the POPE is tiptoeing into the quicksand of over population .. and its implications.

Those ‘implications’ are all around us, but we keep putting our fingers in our ears and covering our eyes.

The average American cares more about the ASPCA than Planned Parenthood. The Average American cares more about Cecil than any of the children in the camps of Africa and Asia.

The average European is having this conversation over Sunday Dinner... wringing their hands and trying to resolve their competing emotions.

These next few years are going to be the calm before the storm. As work ENDS - and it IS ENDING, in ways the Industrial Revolution never achieved - the BIG DISCUSSION will have to happen.

WHO and HOW MANY are going to SHARE this planet with WHO AND HOW MANY other plants and animals - oceans, rivers, mountains, prairies and cities.

IT’s coming. And I”m not sure most of us have taken our fingers out of our ears. IT’s going to be very very ugly. And violent. And everything you think you believe in will be tested in ways never experienced.

Now... I expect to be ravaged.. but this discussion is way past due. Each of these threads are examples of cognitive dissonance. Each is influencing the others.. and we ignor it at our peril.


10 posted on 08/02/2015 6:10:50 AM PDT by wenn
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To: Zakeet

Thank-you Empire State Building! :) =^..^=


11 posted on 08/02/2015 6:12:04 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: wenn

Are you sure about that I ask?


12 posted on 08/02/2015 6:13:08 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Zakeet

Wow—that’s pretty impressive lighting!


13 posted on 08/02/2015 6:14:19 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: KosmicKitty

7 billion and going strong—I wouldn’t exactly call that an endangered species.


14 posted on 08/02/2015 6:15:36 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Zakeet

I’m thinking someone needs to commandeer the projector and show a jet airline striking the building to sober people up to what is really going on in the world. Instead, we get f***ing Cecil the dead lion.


15 posted on 08/02/2015 6:15:47 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: P.O.E.

Corn on the Cob!

How many Corn babies must die?

We must stop the insanity....


16 posted on 08/02/2015 6:16:06 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: 9YearLurker

Only while in the womb

Or on the steets of South Chicago


17 posted on 08/02/2015 6:18:14 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: Biggirl

What part?

econ 101 - absolutely

End of work? - positively

Whom and how many can play? - not so sure

but if my experience in Africa is any indication - blue eyes have more value than brown.

Before you all go nuts... that is not an opinion. IT is the natural implication of Econ 101.

And I experienced a taste of it when I was in Kenya after a horrific train derailment which left bodies strewn across the country side. The newspapers were all in English, so it was easy to follow the story, the rescue of only white people, and the ensuing outrage by Kenyans. BUt that was the outcome. Blacks saving only whites.


18 posted on 08/02/2015 6:21:03 AM PDT by wenn
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To: wenn

Until proven otherwise, I view this as an OPINION.


19 posted on 08/02/2015 6:33:02 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Zakeet

Dear Empire State Building: I would demand equal time, I want you to show MURDERED BABIES that Planned Homicide kill. When will you do it?


20 posted on 08/02/2015 6:38:43 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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