Peru Will Charge Greenpeace for Destructive Climate Stunt
Timed to coincide with the end of the United Nations’ Lima Climate Change Conference, Greenpeace activists tread on what many consider sacred ground – the ancient Nazca Lines in the Peruvian desert. The ecofascists wanted their message – “Time for Change” – to be seen by UN members flying away in carbon-belching airplanes. Now, The New York Times reports, “President Ollanta Humala of Peru criticized the environmental group Greenpeace on Saturday for not respecting his country’s archaeological heritage as authorities said they intended to seek criminal charges against several activists who damaged the fragile desert around the Nazca Lines. … Officials said that the activists walking over the fragile desert ground left marks that cannot be removed. The Nazca Lines were created over 1,000 years ago, and include enormous figures of birds, mammals and geometric shapes etched into the earth.” It’s ironic that Greenpeace would love nothing more than to destroy the world’s economy so as to “save” the planet from climate change, and yet what’ll get them in trouble is scuffling across some pebbles in the desert. More…
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