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talktooloose) wrote2006-12-15 09:01 am
talktooloose) wrote2006-12-15 09:01 am
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The Fact Is...
The fact is that, four days after seeing An Inconvenient Truth, I'm not all that okay. The documentary was just superb. Complex ideas were made clear, ridiculous myths were elegantly shredded and Gore presented a message of hope including listing successes we've made when we've confronted past environmental problems.
I was particularly impressed when he said that we have a tendency to jump from denial to despair without stopping in the middle in the place where we might take action.
But since the high I felt in the wake of the movie, I have been particularly vulnerable to the wretched stupidity of the human race. Yesterday, the lead-off news items were the people of Nunavut fighting the federal governement for the rights to the oil reserves off their coast and a giant oil fire in Sarnia, Ontario.
The arctic and antarctic are receiving by the far the most extreme climate change effects (ones that threaten us all and very soon) so now they want the right to exploit fossil fuels? To help their economy? And then there's that giant oil fire in Sarnia.
I think the message of hope is vitally important, but I'm panicking more and more as the week goes on.
My carbon footprint, btw, seems to be about 2 tonnes per year compared to the Ontario average of 5.29 tonnes. That's a start; wonder if I can do better?
lol. this is the closest I have to an enviro-icon.
I was particularly impressed when he said that we have a tendency to jump from denial to despair without stopping in the middle in the place where we might take action.
But since the high I felt in the wake of the movie, I have been particularly vulnerable to the wretched stupidity of the human race. Yesterday, the lead-off news items were the people of Nunavut fighting the federal governement for the rights to the oil reserves off their coast and a giant oil fire in Sarnia, Ontario.
The arctic and antarctic are receiving by the far the most extreme climate change effects (ones that threaten us all and very soon) so now they want the right to exploit fossil fuels? To help their economy? And then there's that giant oil fire in Sarnia.
I think the message of hope is vitally important, but I'm panicking more and more as the week goes on.
My carbon footprint, btw, seems to be about 2 tonnes per year compared to the Ontario average of 5.29 tonnes. That's a start; wonder if I can do better?
lol. this is the closest I have to an enviro-icon.
Re: this is the closest I have to an enviro-icon.
It seems more and more clear to me that things really are changing. They're changing slowly, and I'm surprised Katrina didn't have a bigger effect than it did. But I do believe that whenever it is we finally kick our butts into gear, we'll be able to finally make the right changes. I doubt it will be "too late", but I don't doubt whatever it is that happens is gonna be frikken big.
Re: this is the closest I have to an enviro-icon.
I believe that in the past year, general public discourse has gone from "human-caused climate change may be happening" to "Yup, it's really happening." That step should not be underestimated.
Also, "too late" is a useless term. There are a many degrees of "too late" and "just in time". As of this week, we're already too late for the special dolphins that lived in the Yangste River. Maybe we'll be too late to save some coastal cities from drowning. Maybe lots of too lates, but if we can survive without losing the best of our civilization, I will be pleased. And of that I'm hopeful.
I want a pet baiji
Fuck, I can't wait till we can re-engineer all our extinct species back.
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Now THAT'S a superior species. Create things, JUST to kick 'em.
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