An interesting way to protest against pulpmill pollution

The picture you can see below is traveling the world. A woman wearing a bikini and knee-high boots disrupted the shooting of a group photo of EU and Latin American leaders at a summit in Vienna on Friday. The woman, who identified herself as Evangelina Carrozo, was protesting the construction of two wood pulp plants that are being built in Uruguay near a river border with Argentina. Read more about this.

While the form of protest may appear frivolous to the naked eye, the issue is quite serious. Uruguay has agreed to the contruction of two wood pulp plants that have failed to demonstrate that their day to day activities won’t have a major impact on the Uruguay river. It is such a serious issue that two nations that have been historically united (Uruguay and Argentina), are now facing their worst diplomatic conflict.

I do believe that the plants should not be built. It is an extreme position (the politically correct statement would be just to ask for serious studies showing the impact on the environment), but it is a well founded one. It is A FACT that such factories have a HUGE negative impact on the environment. Argentina knows about this, since we have our own share of paper mills destroying natural life.