Ten things they can do to save the planet. (Did you know that fewer than 25% of the Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild have been spayed or neutered?)
Ten things they can do to save the planet. (Did you know that fewer than 25% of the Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild have been spayed or neutered?)
So what exactly should we do to be more eco-friendly? Or do you believe that there is no need for it? And 5% addition of ethanol does not constitute a comprehensive environmental plan.
All chicken little liberals and manbearpig-Algore belivers should skip the others and go straight to number 9.
Todd: How about tax cuts for bus passes?
I thought it was the Film Actors Guild.
its SAG, not FAG
Cut off the heat and A/C at most of the lame newsrooms and journalist cubicles nationwide.
Start shooting suburban deer for meat.
Confiscate the Saudi oil fields after the next big egregious attack that has their money behind it.
Tax lefties every time they play the race/victim card, verbalize a conspiracy theory or express their got-to-be-true feelings instead of facts and logic.
Do what any civilized world should be doing.
Put more money into space programs so when we finally have used up this planet,we can go find another.
or send all socialists to the “red” planet
If we put duct tape over the mouths of all the NDP, Grit and Democrat politicians, just think of all the hot air emissions prevented! That alone would probably get us halfway to our North American Kyoto goals!
If we did the same with all the vacuous, pseudo-intellectual lefties from Hollywood, that’d add another huge percentage to our North American hot air emissions reductions goals.
Finally, if CBC, CNN and CBS were shut down, the energy savings would be prodigious. Not to mention the vast reduction in North American mind pollution.
I think all these steps are do-able and that we could all live very well with their consequences. What do you think, folks? 🙂
Geez, I thought I was the class clown. Only Oxy has offered a real response to Todd’s question, but I fear the impact would be very minimal. And the most rabid dissenters might demand corresponding tax cuts for those supporting the natural resources sector.
Maybe greater incentives for car-pooling and the like? This is probably far too little.
Hmmm, instead of a wealth transfer to countries like Russia,…
…how about working with the appropriate countries to maintain the rainforests. Working on plant research and new medicines so that the host countries and everyone else can gain some benefit.
Or how about a major effort to reverse desertfication in Africa? (and elsewhere)
Or requiring new home construction in Canada to have some sort of solar power generaton capability. This would provide some independance from the grid and take pressure off of new power plant construction.
And yes, we -must- begin major efforts in space exploration!
David Burge is on the right track. I do like babies, however, and I don’t believe in suicide, but the other stuff–at least the turning off of water faucets–I can try to do.
One great advantage of not being a famous and energy-guzzling movie star or rock star, is that I don’t have any SUVs, private jets, koi ponds, private gyms and projection theatres, swimming pools, steam and sauna baths, state-of-the-art-kitchen appliances, or security devices to operate, so I guess I’m doing my part to be a responsible consumer and an energy saver.
Whew!
It IS a bit much for algore and all of the Hollywood/New York film/theatre actor elites to be bleating about “saving the planet” when they guzzle tons more consumer goods and energy than the average wo/man on the street, let alone the wo/man in the rain forest and the world’s deserts.
My solution: We should all think and live like monks, who consume only what they need and live abstemious lives for the good, no, for the salvation, of everyone else. Also, prayer is very good for saving the planet. God created the universe, not just our planet, and God cares for His creation, so why not check with Him to see what His advice would be?
I’m actually not kidding.
It’s a good thing 13th century England didn’t have Al Gore and his minions when they were running out of wood.
Dr.Gray Speaks Truth to Fascist Power (Surprise!)
Trendy ecomovements are vital and need money.
1. Put an ecotax on cocaine futures and options contracts in Hollywood.
2. Put an additional ecotax on any movie idea generated while inspired in a narco-induced fugue state.
3. Ecotax on any star using one of Heidi Fleis’s protoges who are working to procure new teenagers from the L.A. bus station who are willing to do anything to get into show business.
These three progressive ideas will raise enough money to buy as many environmentally sensitive friends as you want.
Dead Kennedy’s Late 70’s early 80’s
“Bomb the boats feed the fish”
or
“Skiers for a nuclear winter”
or
“Pave the environment”
Save electricity by not wasting your time reading the idiot ravings on SDA.
Or you could pray.
Ya, pray.
The environment is fine, save yourself.
Would you like your government subsidized bag of Soylent Green for your veggie garden delivered by rickshaw, Mr. Suzuki?
The only cure for environmental destruction is poverty. Poor people consume less. The best way to get more poor people is to vote NDP.
I’m sure its the Film Actors Guild.
Holy crap, I thought being the scottish-born accountant, I had minimal sense of humour.
To Todd, Grasshopper and Reprah(yeah Harper backwards, I get it), no-one here was going to come up with solutions. The only one who presented solutions in the tenor of the post was Greg(outside Dallas). As usual using humour to point to the Hyprocisy of the Hollywood intellegensia(sp?) is lost on our “progressive” friends.
Add that naked bug doctor Suzuki to the list of prodigerous users.
Yeeha!
Truth from the Tractor Belt.
LUVIT…………
Gee, Ken, you’re hilarious. But I think you’re right – I may not belong here. Do you think there’s any reason at all, even the cutest little reason, to be a bit more conscious of the environment? If you think not, I understand. The tenor of the post was, like, not lost on me, just so you know.
Todays Leth Herald had a full page ad listing 15 ways to save energy etc. Can’t wait for all those women trying to hang clothes on a clothes line and seeing them ripped to shreds with the wind, discoloured by the sun or ripped by the dog. Years ago before dryers women were judged by the way they hung clothes on the line. Shirts hung by the shoulder seams or by the bottom said a lot. Lazy if you hung several faceclothes by one corner. FYI, you might save power by turning off lights and appliances if you are out of the room for 5 minutes, but the cost increases by turning on and off, same for turning down your furnace, costs more to reheat than maintaining steady heat. All those coming up with these wonderful suggestions have lived thru them. We have. Back pain in women reduced greatly once they quit all that lifting and bending doing laundry. Councils were petitioned to death from people complaining laundry hanging out at all hours interferred with they ability to enjoy their views. Wonder how many are prepared to have their clothes freeze dry in the winter, or battle frozen sheets and towels when trying to get them off the line. You guessed, bylaws were passed confining wash days to Monday and wednesdays. One was also judged by the time your wash was out on Monday a.m., by the mailman, milkman, postman, breadman and the iceman. In the country the school van drivers delivered the news on his stops. Being a city bride, moving to a farm I had a lot of learning to do. Finally I decided to do my laundry late Sunday night, hang out stuff around midnight and have everyone say, Mrs=== sure was early this morning. How much emmission is Gore causing on his crusade. How much was spent when all those seal protesters went to Nfld. Seems like all the envirowackos want to go back to the days before power and plumbing. Been there and I wont go back.
You are wise Grasshoppper for one so young.
Bino for cows?
ROFL!!! I love it.
Hee hee, seriously though, we are keeping our eye out on solar energy product developments and we’d likely ‘buy in’ on an opportunity should a good one present it self for our situation.
Cutting back on energy consumption at home is really simple and logical, just ask any grade five or six student if you’re stuck for ideas.
Telling, er teaching students to teach their parents to reduce energy in the home is a part of any Canadian child’s education.
Likely they have a more positive view of Kyoto than I,
anyway…
Oops,that should read-have never lived thru them.
Also, clothes had to be hung according to color, whites, pastels then colors. Also had to hung according to length. As most women today, or men, have never seen a line full of clothes, don’t know what a clothespin is, have a lot to learn. Tip, don’t use plastic pins in the winter.
What are all those in apartments going to do. I’d guess use the washer and dryer, and keep the lights on.
Thanks, Dougfu. I’m not sure whether I’m more excited about being called “wise” or “young”. Could you prepare a brief note to my wife? ;\
I heard this morning that sales of SUV’s in the US were down 25% last month. A similar but lesser decrease was seen in Canada. As Martha Stewart might say, it’s a ‘good’ thing.
Anyway, I certainly never expected this post to elicit a string of comments pointing and laughing at environmentalists. Pointing and laughing is so cool.
To moi, a sure sign of higher intelligence is a good sense of humor and wit, like political satire. Sometimes the more simple minded are angered or shocked by the display of humor/satire by others who are more capable of handling such free thoughts.
Too bad for them.
It’s a proven fact you can teach new material better when it’s woven in with humor.
Comedians that use the idiopathic quirks of everyday life and human behaviour in their routines are the funniest IMHO.
Now get out there and nuke the whales!!
/moonbat off
I think we should quit washing our garbage several times in hot water and then driving it around for hundreds of miles in diesel trucks, i.e. recycling. /s
Doesn’t Tony Soprano have a recycling business?
I wonder if organized crime types are eagerly anticipating a “climate change” bank where billions can be made off of trading hot air credits.
I just think Al Gore is either a very clever politician or he’s a naive one.
Clever for picking an issue so big it’s beyond practical human capabilities but which still allows him to pose as a Messianic prophet.
Naive for picking an issue that is so big only a fool would believe we could ever achieve any global consensus on it.
MaryT: In the winter I find it too cold to hang out anything that is fiddly like socks, so those get hung up inside on drying racks. My 3’x3’x5′ rack holds at least a load of laundry and almost everything dries overnight. Folds flat for storage behind the door.
I hang my sheets out year round and they seldom come in stiff since the wind evaporates the water in them, even in -40 weather. You have to pin fast though since they freeze in a crumpled mess in the basket if you don’t!
Shoveling the back deck is a pain and I have to have lots of clothespins because I tend to drop them (my deck is elevated so they disappear into the drifts until spring.) And when the sheets get tangled over the line, I have had to snowshoe over to untangle them. All part of the charm of the choices I’ve made.
Laundry is certainly one area of my life where I use minimal energy. I still have a dryer but only use it to do towels in the winter.
Now, as for saving energy by spending less time reading SDA… I’ll have to think about that!