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Originally Posted by CaptainCraig
You have some very good points & I find it very interesting what Germany is doing. That is great.
However how is this new "pop culture" movement bad. I agree with you about the show to some extent now, but are you talking about the new movement in general? If so that boggles my mind. That almost reminds me of the person who wore a Tampa jersey to the Redmile just to be different.
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It's not "new" at all. Global superstars trying to band together to promote a message of change is decades old. I'm saying it has less than a drop in the bucket affect. Minimal to no impact. And I'm not against the movement, but the elevation of global warming into some kind of incontravertible religion when there is plenty of strong science showing otherwise...
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/f...4068db11f4&p=4
In the end, I feel that the issue of global warming is more sensationalistic and political than fair, accurate, and objective. There was a thread earlier about how many prominent scientists and faculties are being shunned from publishing and grants just because they hold a contrary view to what is currently politically popular -> that global warming is a genuine and human affectable phenomenon that is spiraling out of control. I've very liberal, but to me, what many politicans and activists are spouting in the U.S. sounds awfully like the same "End Times" preaching you get from religious fundamentalists with Al Gore as the messiah.
I do agree though, that if everybody does their part, we can have direct and measurable positive effects on the environment. I just don't agree with any of the tactics or direction this movement has taken...such as the correlation of a few decades of scientific evidence about the weather with catastrophic scare tactics implying that heat waves and freak weather like hurricanes are all caused by global warming...we human beings have been on earth less than 1% of it's existence, we still don't know that much concrete information about global weather patterns over the course of centuries or millenia. Heck, aren't we a few thousand years overdue for another global ice-age already? Maybe global warming is saving all our lives.
Additionally, I feel that the message is mixed and misguided...for instance the issue brought up about the anti-nuclear power t-shirts. Nuclear power really is the clean solution to our energy problems. It produces exponentially more power and is much more efficient than coal and the by-products are steam and a small amount of nuclear waste which is explicitly stored and treated safetly...instead of CO2 simply pumped out of a smokestack.