Greenpeace Recreates Noah's Ark, Highlights Global Warming
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA on 05.23.07
The Biblical Noah's Ark is making new waves—if you'd forgive the expression—but not as a refuge from the Almighty's torrential wrath. Subbing for God's faithful shipbuilder are some 20 Greenpeace volunteers from Germany and Turkey, who have already begun construction of a large-scale model of the Ark on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, where popular belief places the Ark's final resting place after flood waters receded. Its lofty goal : To raise public awareness over climate change.
"Greenpeace started to build a Noah's Ark on the Mount Ararat to point to the threat of the new climate catastrophe," Andree Bohling, the group's energy campaigner, told a press conference in Istanbul.
"Global climate change is the biggest threat to our planet since the times of Noah," he added. "We are about to face a new flood." The ship will be unveiled in a public ceremony on May 31, 2007.
Greenpeace is infamous for its bold moves, but its latest endeavor appears excessively over-the-top, even by the environmental group's standards. (No word on whether the organization is at least using reclaimed or sustainably harvested wood. Or carbon-offsetting the project, for that matter.)
Reconstructing the Ark almost reeks of self-parody—the only thing missing are the animals marching in two by two. I'm generally admiring of Greenpeace's actions, but this time, I'd like nothing better than to wrap a big-sisterly arm around its shoulder and softly coo, "Oh Greenpeace, you so crazy. Let's go get some ice cream, instead." :: AFP
way to fuel the fire of all the nutso christian extremists. they'll either a) love it, see it as affirmation that God controls the climate like He did in the case of Noah or b) be offended by such a hippie liberal group like Greenpeace desecrating their holy scripture about Noahs ark
Funny I find the nutso environmentalist extremists just as bad.
So am I to understand Greenpeace correctly? The Noah global flood story is a myth so I should assume that global warming is a myth too?
Hasn't Greenpeace lost its relevance now that environmental awareness is so widespread?
They're still doing the shock-and-awe stuff to get our attention they were doing in 1997. Doesn't make any sense. It's a different world today post Katrina, post An Inconvenient Truth.
We are aware now. The issues have our attention. We 'get' climate change. Grow up Greenpeace, I say.
Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this picture of Greenpeace making an ark out of giant logs? Maybe I just do not know that they are using a material actually made out of something that is a substitute for wood... I sure hope that Greenpeace is not actually using wood from cut down trees to make a point with their absolutely unnecessary ark. To be quite honest, I am yet to see a big public response recently from the shock tactics that Greenpeace has been using lately. This is almost like being a woman and having an abortion to PROTEST abortion! Cutting down trees to make a senseless ark in the middle of nowhere is only reducing the number of trees that could SLOW DOWN global warming. I am a treehugging environmentalist 100% of the way, but when I see this nonsensical, ineffective garbage coming out of a group that claims to be environmentally friendly, I just want to gag. If anyone can explain a little more clearly how this project would be better than, oh, I don't know, PLANTING a group of trees in the shape of an ark to protest global warming, please do. PLEASE prove me wrong.
The timing is almost too coincidental to be random! I can't believe this is happening nearly at the same time as the release of Evan Almighty starring Steve Carell of 40YOV fame (among other productions).
Can anyone explain this more-than-mere coincidence?
Perhaps someone should mention to these confused loons that Noah's ark supposedly ended up at Mount Ararat -- it was not built there.
Perhaps someone should mention to these confused loons that Noah's ark supposedly ended up at Mount Ararat -- it was not built there.
Good idea! I'm sure they don't know that!
They should build it elsewhere, flood the Earth themselves, then somehow guide it to Mt. Ararat with their thoughts.
Thanks for that sane suggestion!
can anyone tell what Greenpeace or friends of the earth actually do other that become cross and then tie them selves to something then invite the media so they all become heroes. I hate to be so bold but green peace should invest there funds in building stuff like plane, trains, cars, houses, electronics and anything else for that matter with the aim of making the more efficient and greener and so improve technology rather than just moaning about how unsustainable it is.
um... so does this actually "launch" today? or have they given up? I _DO_ hope someone is covering this "historic" event.
I think Greenpeace did a good job in promoting awareness on global warming with this publicity stunt. I mean, just look at all the discussions on the Internet that it's spawned. I've no doubt that many out there who wouldn't have given second thoughts on global warming issues are now quickened into doing something, even if it's as small as commenting on a weblog such as this.
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I just like to add that Greenpeace can get better publicity by partnering itself with the movie Evan Almighty, the sequel to Bruce Almighty. In the movie, our hero gets to be a Noah-like character when God asks him to build an ark. At least this would complement the ark they built on Ararat, and they may even get some deal out of it which can benefit both parties. It's just a thought.
http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/353953/Science+and+Technology?c_id=ar
interesting comments to this post.
why not see it as art ? after all it beats the crap out of all the pompous rubbish posing as such. the amount of wood is not so important considering that that the project is aimed at the redneck news media, but still they might have used ikea chipboard to make a subsidiary point. and they could have pedigree poodles, preferably dyed pink, going in two by two, not forgetting botany, perhaps hemp ? a display of fossils from mt araratwould also be appropriate. and of course a gas-guzzling 4x4 for noah's personal transport. it should also be a pedalled boat (no more driftin').
i hope we are not becoming a bunch of old women ? sorry but i don't think that people have taken global warming, et Al, to heart. it's parroted a lot in the media but the implications haven't really sunk in. So I think i'll let greenpeace have the benefit of the doubt. can't we allow ourselves a little bit of fun ?. we might send them some suggestions instead of bickering among ourselves ?
It's about time people recognize the global warming hype for the apocolyptic relgious cult that it is. It's all based on bad science and a literalist belief in the universal mythic theme of the "The Flood" that are held in the collective psyche (see Jung, Campbell). Man has "sinned" and the world is going to end in a deluge. Pure imagination!
I don't think world needs another fundamentalist religion and all the suffering they bring. Say no to the cult of environmentalism! Think people think!
Environmentalism these days is really a socio-cultural phenomenon but I believe it shouldn't be the case. The media certainly helps in delivering the message of environmentalists but it also gives the movement the skin of popular culture and transient activism which makes it appear trivial and fleeting just like fashion. Ideally, environmentalism shouldn't be a limited movement or fad. It should be ingrained in everyone and be part and parcel of living, albeit in a modern and artificial world.
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