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Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat
I remember Loin once asked if the expeditions sent to Mt.Ararat found anything conclusive.
Now Greenpeace has decided to settle the dispute around Noah's Ark once and for all:
Now Greenpeace has decided to settle the dispute around Noah's Ark once and for all:
Greenpeace to build Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat
Twenty Turkish and German carpenters are building a replica of Noah's Ark, a ship of hope and warning, at the foot of the legendary Mount Ararat, although there is no sea nearby. Greenpeace Mediterranean yesterday declared in a press conference that they are building the ship to warn both the Turkish government and all developed and developing nations, about global warming, a disaster that is almost irreversible."We are only at the beginning of a disaster. Noah's ark is a way for us to show how urgent the situation is but at the same time it also serves as a symbol of hope to remind us that we still have time to save our planet and our lives," said Andree Boehling from Germany. Global warming can be prevented through global action against it, stressed Boehling.Greenpeace activists will present the ark with a ceremony on May 31, and by releasing 206 doves representing all the countries of the world. The timber of the ark has been obtained from Doğubeyazıt, a town in the eastern Anatolian province of Ağrı, where Mount Ararat is located.The reason Green peace is building a replica of Noah's Ark is to remind people of a disaster mentioned in the Old Testament and tell people another one is at the doorstep.
A myth might come true:
According to the Old Testament, God caused a great flood in the world to punish its citizens for the sins they had committed. In order to save humankind, Noah, the tenth and last of the antediluvian patriarchs, built an Ark and brought two samples of each species in the world to the Ark. After the flood, Noah's Ark landed on Ararat.While Greenpeace activists are building the ark, ironically, unexpected floods killed two children in Van, another eastern Anatolian city near Ağrı, noted Hilal Atıcı from Greenpeace Turkey. "We will climb to the top of Mount Ararat on May 26 to make a call to all leaders of the world," said Erkut Ertürk, from Greenpeace Mediterranean.The consequences, say UN scientists in their Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, will be a shortage of drinking water, the spread of tropical diseases and extinction of species in dimensions not seen by the world before.On the eve of World Environment Day and the G8 summit at Heiligendamm in Germany, Greenpeace will intend to remind the world that it does not have much time left and it has to act now to stop global warming. If countries worldwide start a serious fight against climate change today, the direst effects of the disaster can still be prevented.
Twenty Turkish and German carpenters are building a replica of Noah's Ark, a ship of hope and warning, at the foot of the legendary Mount Ararat, although there is no sea nearby. Greenpeace Mediterranean yesterday declared in a press conference that they are building the ship to warn both the Turkish government and all developed and developing nations, about global warming, a disaster that is almost irreversible."We are only at the beginning of a disaster. Noah's ark is a way for us to show how urgent the situation is but at the same time it also serves as a symbol of hope to remind us that we still have time to save our planet and our lives," said Andree Boehling from Germany. Global warming can be prevented through global action against it, stressed Boehling.Greenpeace activists will present the ark with a ceremony on May 31, and by releasing 206 doves representing all the countries of the world. The timber of the ark has been obtained from Doğubeyazıt, a town in the eastern Anatolian province of Ağrı, where Mount Ararat is located.The reason Green peace is building a replica of Noah's Ark is to remind people of a disaster mentioned in the Old Testament and tell people another one is at the doorstep.
A myth might come true:
According to the Old Testament, God caused a great flood in the world to punish its citizens for the sins they had committed. In order to save humankind, Noah, the tenth and last of the antediluvian patriarchs, built an Ark and brought two samples of each species in the world to the Ark. After the flood, Noah's Ark landed on Ararat.While Greenpeace activists are building the ark, ironically, unexpected floods killed two children in Van, another eastern Anatolian city near Ağrı, noted Hilal Atıcı from Greenpeace Turkey. "We will climb to the top of Mount Ararat on May 26 to make a call to all leaders of the world," said Erkut Ertürk, from Greenpeace Mediterranean.The consequences, say UN scientists in their Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, will be a shortage of drinking water, the spread of tropical diseases and extinction of species in dimensions not seen by the world before.On the eve of World Environment Day and the G8 summit at Heiligendamm in Germany, Greenpeace will intend to remind the world that it does not have much time left and it has to act now to stop global warming. If countries worldwide start a serious fight against climate change today, the direst effects of the disaster can still be prevented.
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