Recently a four-minute video titled No Pressure, written by the writer of Notting Hill, bombed worse than Ishtar because it bombed innocents. No Pressure promotes the 10:10 movement’s goal to lower carbon emissions by ten percent. The video went viral in an ebola sort of way. Because banners and billboards are so déclassé, the 10:10Continue reading “Rotting Swill: The “No Pressure” video from 10:10UK.org stinks”
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Envirasceticism
I think Brendan O’Neil’s essay on the new enviro-asceticism is brilliant. I especially liked: Eating, drinking, playing, procreating – everything is carbon-calculated, everything is carbonised. These carbon-calculations really represent a moral judgement on our lives. They [today’s environmentalists] make everything into a potential sin, a crime against the planet. They send the very powerful messageContinue reading “Envirasceticism”
The Week’s Environmental News Roundup
Brazil’s Petrobas raises $70b Brazil’s oil company, Petrobas, raised $70 billion in a sale of it’s stock. According to a report on the Economist website, “The share issue is an important element in Brazil’s plan to exploit the sizeable oilfields it discovered off its coasts in 2007. These ‘pre-salt’ fields (so called because they areContinue reading “The Week’s Environmental News Roundup”
Deforestation diminishing the Snows of Kilimanjaro
Last year a Huffington Post post conjectured that the loss of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro was another sign of global warming. A team observed that Kilimanjaro’s glaciers were receding and “The increase of Earth’s near surface temperatures, coupled with even greater increases in the mid- to upper-tropical troposphere, as documented in recent decades, would atContinue reading “Deforestation diminishing the Snows of Kilimanjaro”
Nullius in Verba 