To display conspicuous bravery while ending the life of others will get you medals, acclaim and perhaps even a promotion and higher pay. However to risk your life for the good of others or the environment is to open yourself to condemnation. Sure in a few decades you might get retrospective praise, editorials that devote a paragraph to praise and the rest of it how the author "got it".
So we come to an event even the considerably left leaning guardian can't really bring itself to praise. Greenland is probably sitting on a lot of oil and gas albeit it a long way under the ocean, so to get at it oil companies will need to use deep drilling. Greenland's water is much colder (so the oil will take much longer to disperse) and the area of proposed drilling is far more remote thus making recovery operations much slower.
So Greenpeace stepped up to the plate. Sure most of us don't want the precious eco-systems of the Arctic region destroyed but... ya know freecell isn't going to play itself. Facing off against Greenland police boats and the Danish navy four activists somehow managed to evade these patrols and then somehow mountaineer themselves onto a drilling platform scouting out this alleged oil. I mean thats some James Bond shit, zipping about on rubber dingies and then through mad physical exertion boarding the bad guy's floating base. No one killed, no one harmed and all for an admiral ideological goal that doesn't benefit the activists in any material way.
So how does the Guardian decide to headline it?
Greenland's prime minister lambasts Greenpeace for raiding Arctic oil rig
fair enough
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