Greenpeace Builds Replica of Noah's Ark
May 16 07:43 AM US/Eastern
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - 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.
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There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
Joseph R. Darancette
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