Noah’s Ark Returning to Mt Ararat: CEN 6.01.07 p 7. May 31, 2007
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Noah’s Ark is returning to the summit of Mount Ararat, courtesy of the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace. German and Turkish volunteers are building a replica of the Ark as a symbolic appeal to world leaders attending the June G8 summit in Germany.
Turkish and German volunteers are building the 10m x 4m x 4m (32ft x 13ft x 13ft) wooden ship, being in hopes of sending “a strong message to leaders of all nations that we must act now to tackle global warming and the impending climate change crisis,” Greenpeace said on May 16.
The Greenpeace Ark will be unveiled on May 31, a day after activists from the environmental pressure group scale the 8200 mountain, customarily held to be the resting place of Noah’s Ark.
“At the upcoming G8 summit, many announcements will be made on climate protection, but they must be followed by real action,” said Andree Böhling, a Greenpeace energy spokesman. “Otherwise, the G8 summit will pay only lip service to climate change and a historic opportunity will be lost.”
Greenpeace believes global warming could lead to a “future with huge coastal flooding, drought, extreme destructive weather events and massive increases in disease and displacement of hundreds of million of people.”
Built over two weeks by a team of 20 carpenters, materials for the Ark were hauled up the mountain by 40 pack horses. However Greenpeace has no plans to provide animals, two by two, to populate their Ararat Ark.
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