The enviro-warrior princess was protesting oil drilling in the Arctic by sitting on top of an oil tanker in New Zealand. I guess global warming has not yet accelerated to the point where February in Alaska is as accommodating to the alarmists as a nice New Zealand summer:
Police arrested actress Lucy Lawless and five Greenpeace activists Monday, four days after they climbed onto an oil-drilling ship to prevent it from leaving a New Zealand dock.
Police removed the protesters from their perch atop a 174-foot (53-meter) drilling tower on the Noble Discoverer in Port Taranaki. Chartered by oil company Shell, the ship had been due to leave over the weekend to drill five exploratory wells in the Arctic.
Lawless and six activists climbed the tower early Friday to stop the ship’s departure and raise awareness about Arctic oil drilling.
One of the activists left the tower Saturday and was initially charged with unlawfully boarding a ship. All seven have now been charged with burglary, a more serious crime. All have been released and are due to appear in a New Zealand court Thursday.
Lawless, 43, a native New Zealander, is best known for her title role in the TV series “Xena: Warrior Princess,” and more recently for starring in the Starz cable television series “Spartacus.”
Lawless spoke to The Associated Press from atop the tower Friday, where she said wind gusts were making it difficult for the group to stay put. She said she felt compelled to take a stand against oil-drilling in the Arctic and against global warming.
“I’ve got three kids. My sole biological reason for being on this planet is to ensure that they can flourish, and they can’t do that in a filthy, degraded environment,” she said. “We need to stand up while we still can.”
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Hmmm. Her prime directive is to leave behind a 'good' world for her kids. OK, I can understand that desire.
But let me see if I have this straight. The only reason any one cares what she says is because she's a celebrity. She made her name in television and film. Production of product in both media requires a huge amount of energy. This must be generated by coal, gas, oil or nuclear. (Maybe Hollywood should give an award for the first film produced with zero non-renewable energy). So, it seems to me that the best way for her to achieve her prime directive is to move to a little house in central New Zealand without electricity and raise sheep with her kids.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"'I’ve got three kids. My sole biological reason for being on this planet is to ensure that they can flourish, and they can’t do that in a filthy, degraded environment,' she said."
And they won't flourish when they realize that your actions lead to more expensive fuel for them to use.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThey can florish, just need to find a way to use less fuel
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCheap, abundant energy is why we are flourishing in the first place.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePity you can't just shoot these criminals when they burglarize your ship. . . .
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMaybe they should have just sailed on time with them aboard. This ain't the Pacific Princess (or whatever the Love Boat was named).
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLet's get a second opinion from James Delingpole on "saving the planet for the kids"
It was prompted when I very vocally expressed my disgust at one of the standard phrases trotted out by Warmists and other eco-loons in these debates (as, of course, inevitably, they did again on Sunday): the one about "preserving the planet for future generations".
"The reason this cant phrase makes me want to throw up every time I hear it is that it's such a grotesque inversion of reality. It's not people on my side of the debate who want to ravage the countryside with wind farms (with no provision for decommissioning them), rein in economic growth, introduce wartime-style rationing, raise taxes, destroy farmland and rainforests to create biofuels, and base heinously expensive public policy on hysteria and junk science. It's not people on my side of the debate who are condemning those "future generations" to a lower standard of living and an uglier environment in order to deal with a problem that doesn't exist. So how dare they have the gall to try to take the moral high ground?"
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe Kiwis get their power from coal plants or hydro power. It helps to have the Southern Alps there for water power. However ...
From the top of the rig (be glad it's not a Weta Workshop wonder), she ought to be able to see from New Plymouth to the western edge of her idiocy: the mountains rimming Lake Taupo. It's only about 90 km. Surely she's been there, not just lounging at Rotorua. Lake Taupo runs about 300m deep, and is very large. It's also the remnants of a supervolcano eruption in the second century BC, if I remember right, and also blew off the top 500m or so of the mountain. It dropped the southern hemisphere temperature by more than Krakatoa.for several years. Cubic kilometers of rock and ash went up, not counting the additional gas and rock vented from magma chambers.
The active vulcanism out at White Island appears to be taking the pressure of the CALDERA CHAIN stretching from Ruapehu to Taupo and northeast (along the tectonic plate lines) into the Bay of Plenty. She's only 30km from Mt. Egmont, fortunately extinct! It'll become a filthy ash heap - what else do you expect from volcanos? And will you ululate your way out of the next eruption? Take the job at the dairy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA) "Box her."
B) Renee O'Connor is hotter.
C) I want my godkids to 'inherit a world' where they have access to the best technology and longevity. Not freezing at night because some crazy woman is standing on an oil rig in summer.
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