tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post2803730505709463505..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Failing States and Lost Civilizations - Lester Brown and Matt Damon talk about Climate Change and Food Shortages - but Neglect Crop Loss from Ozone!Gail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-11403767865710359572011-04-12T07:55:26.763-04:002011-04-12T07:55:26.763-04:00I don't like to be mean, so the first thought ...I don't like to be mean, so the first thought I had this morning was Lester Brown on the jet, which bothered me as soon as I saw the image, and I suddenly realized why - he's not flying squished into coach. He's business class, at least. So that increases his footprint by, I don't know, 50%? All the seats around him are empty. Did they make everyone move? Were those seats occupied by aides and the film crew - also flying business class? Who paid for the trip? The donors to his Earth Policy Institute? And then there's the opening, when he's being tended by a make-up person, and the shots of him wandering by himself on the streets of China, the lonely crusader, an heroic tall figure with his curly white hair and bow tie, in a sea of little brown people he is trying save...when in fact you know there is an entire entourage on the other side of the camera.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-1595522273344500332011-04-11T09:53:19.178-04:002011-04-11T09:53:19.178-04:00I don't know what Matt Damon's footprint i...I don't know what Matt Damon's footprint is. But yeah, the irony of Lester Brown jetting back and forth to China multiple times was not lost on me. I understand Richard Alley has to fly to Antarctica and Greenland and use giant drills to extract ice cores - because without that scientific knowledge, we wouldn't understand the dynamics of climate change and what we need to do about it. So I give him and other researchers a pass.<br /><br />But it's hard to see how activists think they are going to inspire action when their own actions bely the seriousness of the problem.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-12860413408061435542011-04-11T09:29:30.749-04:002011-04-11T09:29:30.749-04:00The hypocrisy from the start of the video is beyon...The hypocrisy from the start of the video is beyond comprehension. It's startling. Matt Damon, for example. What's your carbon footprint, Matt? Or can you trade your excess carbon with those who are forced to conserve? Care to share? I'm imagining it's at least several times greater than my family of four, and yet you want to preach to me and the rest of the world, yet not change your own behavior. How many times have you flown this year, Matt? How many times have you flown, Lester? How ironic that the video shows a jet while Lester tells us he was on a jet to the North Pole. Isn't that nice that all the concerned VIP's can jet to the poles to observe the damage caused by their jetting about....and then make numerous documentaries about it and write numerous books about their concern for the climate, and of course, profiting from it. They have no intention of changing their ways or the System. They want the "Little People" to go away so they can have their sustainable levels of CO2 with a world of less than 100 million people. That means you and I aren't invited.Morocco Bamanoreply@blogger.com