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Greenpeace
can get a little aggressive with its tactics. That doesn't mean that
it's not fighting for a good cause! But after the organization marched through the sacred Nazca Lines etched into the Peruvian desert
for a climate protest, capturing it all on camera with a drone, you
have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. Greenpeace isn't the
best at thinking things through, though.
In fact,
this is far from the first time Greenpeace has screwed up, though this
latest episode of Greenpeace Being Reckless is particularly atrocious.
The environmental group has a long, long history of insensitive or
poorly-staged actions, ranging from big—like helping to destroy a GMO crop designed to prevent blindness—to small—like papering a small town with posters the day after a community cleanup.
In case you missed io9's post about
the outrage, here's a recap: The environmental activists wanted to send
a message to government officials from around with world who are
attending a climate change conference in Lima this week. So they headed
to the Nazca Desert, one of the most famous and archaeologically
significant sites in Peru, to lay down a bunch of yellow banners that
spelled out: "TIME FOR CHANGE! THE FUTURE IS RENEWABLE! GREENPEACE."
The message
is practically on top of the hummingbird geoglyph, which is now
surrounded by their footprints. And the irony is thick. The future may
be renewable, but these fragile, ancient drawings are not.
"This
has been done without any respect for our laws," Peru's deputy minister
for culture Luis Jaime Castillo told the press, calling Greenpeace's
actions "thoughtless, insensitive, illegal, irresponsible and absolutely pre-meditated." He explained further: "It
was done in the middle of the night. They went ahead and stepped on our
hummingbird, and looking at the pictures we can see there's very severe
damage. Nobody can go on these lines without permission—not even the
president of Peru!"
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