Monday, April 23, 2007

I am finished with Rise and Fall of the Third Reich... finally. I'll get to it in a minute. Looking for something else to listen to I came across The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming. I put it on my player, pushing the bible yet another notch down on my list of things to listen to. I'll get to it someday.

About an hour into the book, they mention this little tidbit about Greenpeace. The article ran in a Philedelphia paper in 2006, which is not available on the Internet anymore. There is plenty of mention of it though, as a Google search turned up. Here is the article on the topic from WashingtomPost.com...

Greenpeace Just Kidding About Armageddon

Friday, June 2, 2006;

The environmental activist group Greenpeace wanted to be prepared to counter President Bush's visit last week to Pennsylvania to promote his nuclear energy policy.

"This volatile and dangerous source of energy" is no answer to the country's energy needs, shouted a Greenpeace fact sheet, decrying the "threat" posed by the reactors Bush visited in Limerick.

But after that assertion, the Greenpeace authors were apparently stumped while searching for the ideal menacing metaphor.

"In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]," the sheet said.

The Greenpeace spokesman who issued the memo, Steve Smith, told the Web site that a colleague was making a joke in a draft that was then mistakenly released.

The final version did not mention Armageddon; instead it warned of plane crashes and reactor meltdowns.

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