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.

[Citizen Zed]

8 years in prison. Ha ha!

[a fool in paradise]

Ecoterrorists at work...

[dirtboy]

When the stunt-planners at Greenpeace sent teams of activists to trespass this week at Peru's Nazca archeological site

And just how much fuel did that burn?

They could have gotten the same image with Photoshop.

Morons.

[teeman8r]

8 years in prison will definitely lower their carbon footprint...

[left that other site]

Hippies behaving Badly!

[Liberty Valance]

Good grief! Green peace thinks their bs bumper sticker mentality justifies defacing 1000’s of years old ancient artifacts? Throw those evil bastards in jail!

[eyeamok]

8 years is nowhere near the amount of time necessary for this Criminal Act. Life in a Hard Labor Camp would be appropriate.

[SZonian]

Yep, terrorists and they should be given no quarter...

What bunch of AH’s...defacing Gaia in order to “save” her.

[a fool in paradise]

Good grief! Green peace thinks their bs bumper sticker mentality justifies defacing 1000’s of years old ancient artifacts? Throw those evil bastards in jail!

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Allow the indigenous people there to sacrifice them to the sun god.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jails in Peru are pretty cold and ugly, or so I’m told.

[Seruzawa]

Greenpeace is just a bunch of screwballs, like PETA or MADD. They couldn’t exist without the modern welfare state that supports so many useless bread gobblers.

[SES1066]

... and is preparing criminal charges for "attacking archeological monuments," punishable by up to eight years in prison.

If convicted and jailed, I anticipate protest marches upon various Peruvian Embassies with signs about "Good Intentions" being waved vigorously.

[JennysCool]

They couldn’t exist without the modern welfare state

And the fawning media.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

uMMM...

#Nazca

#8yearsinprison

#whyisbubbalookingatmelikethat

[Fred Hayek]

It’s crap like this why Patrick Moore left.

[Slings and Arrows]

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[RichInOC]

Oafs.

[MrB]

“renewable”....

prove “fossil fuels” are not renewable.

[Darksheare]

We can process hydrocarbons from those idiot ecoterrorists.
Soylent fuel solutions, burn a tank of hippie today!

[Darksheare]

Greenpiece, the group that spawned off “Sea Shepherd”.
At least Cap’n Crunch can’t drive his ships into the desert..