In connection with the UN Climate Change conference in Peru
(Ronald Bailey
writes about that here) Greenpeace activists marched across the
off-limits Peruvian site of the world-famous Nazca Lines, near its
iconic hummingbird, leaving foot marks which the Peruvian
government says marred the site, in order to lay out huge yellow
cloth reading “TIME FOR CHANGE The Future is Renewable
Greenpeace.”
The Nazca Lines are, as Washington Post aptly
described them:
one of South America’s most storied archeological wonders, a
mysterious series of huge animal, human and plant symbols that were
carefully etched into the ground between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago.
Tourists typically view them from the air.
A Peruvian culture minister complained
to the BBC that:
“You walk there and the footprint is going to last hundreds or
thousands of years…They haven’t touched the hummingbird
figure but now we have an additional figure created by the
footsteps of these people,” Mr Castillo told local
radio.
The Peruvian government is taking this seriously,
threatening to press charges against the activists who
stepped across the off-limits historical site so they could shout
at the world, rather vaguely, via world media they knew their
desecration would attract, about something the world knows plenty
about already.
Did this embattled scrappy activist group have no other means to
get their message out other than casual vandalism of a historical
site and the accompanying “earned media”? Guess not with their
meager total assets, according to their
financial reports for 2013, of just $54 million euros.
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