nazca lines damaged by....

[Bob Watson]

Peru claims Greenpeace damaged ancient Nazca Lines - CNN.com

GREENPEACE!

 

[Bob Watson]

snopes.com: This Greenpeace Stunt May Have Irreparably Damaged Peru's Nazca Site

 

[Charlie Prime]

GREENPEACE!

The really sick thing about watermelon organizations like Greenpeace is how they destroy public support for protection of the environment.

 

[Burnt State]

mining in the region started destroying the lines last year and deforestation leaves them vulnerable to rockslide. world heritage sites get defaced or blown up - not a surprise when it's slack government officials that allow for such things. short sighted actions by environmentalists is just inexplicable.

forethought: a dying art.

Peru: Heavy machinery destroys Nazca lines - Peru this Week

 

[Constance]

It was a "short-sighted" act, as Burnt says, and I would add a stupid one. But it cannot undo the positive accomplishments of Greenpeace over many years. I think most reasonable people will not be confused by anti-environmentalist propaganda resulting from this incident.

 

[Burnt State]

i don't know about that, Constance. the web is simply overpopulated with anti-greenpeace articles. i think whenever a group falters in a way like this that seems to make them look like they're going backwards it becomes a "crabs in the bucket" moment and everyone will try to pull them back into the cesspool. greenpeace likes to go big and grab the public's attention. sometimes they evade gov'ts and other times they get arrested or have their lives threatened by whaling ships. they do focus our attention though usually in ways that bring awareness to topics that people are mostly apathetic to.

 

[Constance]

You're probably right. Now I feel worse. Haha. Not trying to make you feel guilty there, Burnt. Yah, an enormous number of people are incredibly stupid and irresponsible. There's nothing I can do about it, and I find that knowing that is an improvement over my former condition, when I thought I had to try to save the world.

 

[Charlie Prime]

i don't know about that, Constance. the web is simply overpopulated with anti-greenpeace articles. i think whenever a group falters in a way like this that seems to make them look like they're going backwards it becomes a "crabs in the bucket" moment and everyone will try to pull them back into the cesspool. greenpeace likes to go big and grab the public's attention. sometimes they evade gov'ts and other times they get arrested or have their lives threatened by whaling ships. they do focus our attention though usually in ways that bring awareness to topics that people are mostly apathetic to.

Why do you withhold from readers the courtesy of sentence capitalization?

 

[Burnt State]

because dominance in language is a patriarchal concept. i'm very attracted to bell hooks as an author who removes capitals from her own name in order to say to the audience, "i am not an authority. i do not claim power, but small 'i' has these interesting ideas for you to consider." there's also a lot of writers i'm attracted to who remove capitalization from their poetry and prose; many are also feminist. i reduce my discourse to non-capitals when i intentionally want to speak with a softer tone, and diminish ego. so it's not a courtesy issue - it's a political statement, for the personal is political.

 

[Charlie Prime]

because dominance in language is a patriarchal concept. i'm very attracted to bell hooks as an author who removes capitals from her own name in order to say to the audience, "i am not an authority. i do not claim power, but small 'i' has these interesting ideas for you to consider." there's also a lot of writers i'm attracted to who remove capitalization from their poetry and prose; many are also feminist. i reduce my discourse to non-capitals when i intentionally want to speak with a softer tone, and diminish ego. so it's not a courtesy issue - it's a political statement, for the personal is political.

I hoped you would say "Because I read this forum on an iPad and hitting the up-arrow is too much work".

Instead, we are treated to more of your tedious ultra-P.C. Marxist banality.

This is where we part ways, and I ignore your boring 1970s left/right monotony.

A' Dios

 

[Burnt State]

buena suerte, charlie!

 

[Psychedelic_Alchemist]

I flew over the Nazca lines earlier this year. Amazing site. Sad to hear about this episode. Let's hope the damage isn't irreparable.

 

[Bob Watson]

Name calling and personal attacks add nothing to the debate. Keep it civil folks