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You know, it really does take all kinds

ISTANBUL, Turkey – 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."

What’s scary is that they really just do not even understand what they are saying or doing.

First, how many trees did they kill to build said ark? Not very environmentally responsible, eh?

Second, "human misery on a scale not experienced in modern times"? I guess it depends on your definition of modern times is. I would consider modern times the past 150 years or so. During that time frame, we have had

• two world wars, during which millions were killed
• Hundreds of thousands died during the American Civil War
• 6 million Jews were slaughtered in a few years
• thousands more Christians, Gypsy’s, and others were slaughtered by the Nazi’s
• tens of millions were killed by the leaders of mainland China and the USSR
• 850K Rwandans were killed in 100 days, while the world leaders looked away
• millions die each year around the world due to hysteria over DDT
• thousands died from yellow fever
• thousands die from starvation each year, because of corrupt governments
• millions die on the Killing Fields of Cambodia

That list only includes deaths, of course. And tens of millions more suffered but did not die.

If we want to go back a bit farther, how about the time of the Black Death, when 1/3 of Europe was wiped out? Was that human misery?

More: As Grandaddy Long Legs points out in the comments, regarding Christians and others killed by the Nazi’s, that should be millions. I was thinking millions, but typed thousands. The numbers are actually staggering. I went searching for a specific, but, because of record keeping, it is difficult to pin it down. But, this really stood out

By genocide, the murder of hostages, reprisal raids, forced labor, "euthanasia," starvation, exposure, medical experiments, and terror bombing, and in the concentration and death camps, the Nazis murdered from 15,003,000 to 31,595,000 people, most likely 20,946,000 men, women, handicapped, aged, sick, prisoners of war, forced laborers, camp inmates, critics, homosexuals, Jews, Slavs, Serbs, Germans, Czechs, Italians, Poles, French, Ukrainians, and many others. Among them 1,000,000 were children under eighteen years of age. And none of these monstrous figures even include civilian and military combat or war-deaths.

There is a table linked to from that page, which will blow your mind.

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