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Greenpeace Builds Replica of Noah's Ark
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat , where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood , in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace said Wednesday. Turkish and German volunteer carpenters are making the wooden ship on the mountain in eastern Turkey, bordering Iran. The ark will be revealed in a ceremony on May 31, a day after Greenpeace activists climb the mountain and call on world leaders to take action to tackle climate change, Greenpeace said.
"Climate change is real, it's happening now and unless world leaders take urgent, decisive and far-reaching action, the next decades will see human misery on a scale not experienced in modern times," said Greenpeace activist Hilal Atici. "Those leaders have a mandate from the people ... to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions and to do it now."
Many countries are struggling to address global and national standards for carbon emissions. U.N. delegates are meeting this week in Germany to prepare for December negotiations on a new set of international rules for controlling emissions. The new accord would succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012.
Climate change will also be on the agenda when the Group of Eight major industrialized countries , the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia , meet in Germany in June.
© 2007 The Associated Press.
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Show AllAccording to the Torah and Old Testament, Noah's ark was the size of a modern day cruise ship. Lots of trees to cut down, lots of displaced animal life. Lumber is trucked up moutain passes to Mt Ararat - lots of diesel fuel burned - lots of Greenpeach workers needing toilets and living areas cleared. Instead of destroying a pristine wilderness area to make a global point, they should make it in downtown Washington DC - there are toilets and hotels readily available for the 100s of greenpeace workers. And chop down the woods surrounding Washington DC, don't abuse other country's resources and animal life.
I have no doubt climate change is real, but as for Noah's Ark? I don't think so! I support Greenpeace and appreciate their efforts to bring awareness to this important issue, but it seems like a waste of resources both natural and labor-wise to 'duplicate' a mythical fairy tale object, and on a mountaintop to boot. Perhaps they should use all the materials to oh....build houses for earthquake victims or something?
And the AP gives them a paragraph....
Never underestimate the power of fairytales!
You have seen the last of my money. WHAT A WASTE
Hope it isn't a full size replica, and if it is, I hope they don't try to float it in anything but the flattest of water. A boat that size made of wood will leak like a seive.
I don't know; fairy tale or not, that's poetry.
You could build a few houses, or you could pressure governments to build tens of thousands. You could spend money on ads and TV spots, or you could build Noah's Ark in hopes that people will see the coming disaster.
Cost-benifit? Propaganda can be a worthwhile budget item. Also, that's just funny, and funny reaches more people than a thousand statistics, studies or diatribes.
Now if it "later could be converted to use for people displaced by flooding," that would be even better. But they have to move all the animals somewhere else first.
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Undercover regressive rightist will probably torch it like burning man and just increase carbon emission. The irony, the irony...
Hopefully the wood is from a tree farm, or recycled timber. GreenPeace needs big publicity stunts every now and then to draw attention to their messages and goals. I don't understand the hostility expressed by some, but, then again, some folks are hostile to everything.