This was a really shitty thing for Greenpeace to do.
You know, Peru has taken an awful lot of care to avoid any sort of alteration to the site, to the point you need special permission to go on foot and need special footwear to avoid marking the ground. As people have pointed out, that ground could potentially remain marked by Greenpeace's feet for thousands of years. The lack of respect alone should be worth note, even if not the damage itself.one squirrel said:But here, I really don't see what the big deal is. What damage has actually been done, I couldn't spot any kind of alteration to the site, except the admittedly tasteless yellow letters. The outrage over some footprints (that can't even really be seen anywhere if you don't search with a magnifying glass) in a desert seems to be just as petty as the supposedly harmful activity itself.