Stop Esso!
Just posted a new addition to the postive change section of the main site. Read as Keith protests 45 Esso (Exxon to you and me in the states) filling stations IN ONE DAY!
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Eng-er-land!!!
It’s gone World Cup crazy in the UK (well, in England - the Scots and the Welsh are all supporting Portugal for the next match). Here in the delightful land that is Essex (I jest, it really does contain some of the scariest people in the world!) supporting England is mandatory, even if you’re not English.
There is this strange habit amongst people in Essex to cram as many England (or “Eng-er-land!!!”, as it is said) flags into one car as possible. The Guardian ran a piece on this recently and it’s so true. I have warned our two children to be extra careful around any vehicle with more than one England flag.
Now, what on Earth has that got to do with saving the planet. Well, it’s like this : According to Dr Antonio Filippone of Manchester University, a car with 2 flags burns an extra litre of fuel an hour at an average of 70MPH (that’s the normal speed for highways here). He has calculated that 500,000 similar cars would therefore create 2,800 tonnes of CO2 every hour.
I have seen cars, well SUVs, with 6 flags; so one of those glorious symbols of national pride is generating about 15kg CO2 every hour.
And when England are knocked out of the cup, they will all go into landfill to sit there for 1000 years.
New Member!
Please join me in welcoming Keith to The Sietch. He will be serving as our UK correspondent, and is a very cool guy.
An Inconvenient Truth
I went and saw Al Gore’s new movie (some would say the new movie about Al Gore) An Inconvenient Truth this weekend. Aside from the many product plugs for apple, this was a good movie.
Being the kind of internet geek that compulsively trolls all media sources for news about everything there was not a lot of things in the movie that I have not seen. Judging from the repeated shocked gasps from the audience it seems that others however have not. This movie is nice, very nice. It lays out the arguments for why we need to act now to stop global warming. Only the most fact-resistant among us can withstand its calm, logical, and scientifically based claims. Gore does an amazing job of illustration just how important it is that we start doing something major about global warming, and that we start doing it now.
The movie also highlights a version of Al Gore that makes many in the liberal community almost cry. We cry because if the Al Gore in this movie, would have been the Al Gore that ran for president in 2000, he would have won by an even greater landslide. When we in the progressive community look back on the last 6 years of out of control rampage by George W. Bush and his ilk we yearn for what could have been.
I remember being fooled like everyone else in 2000. Thinking there was “no real difference” between Gore and Bush. Thinking that both men seemed somewhat robotic, and uninteresting. Both “seemed” to be saying almost the same thing. I voted for Gore, more because I didn’t like Bush, not because I had much good to say about Al Gore. If only Gore would have demonstrated this passion then that he has shown since the “loss” in 2000.
If you have not seen this movie yet, go see it. If you are a skeptic of global warming science, go see this movie. If you want to see a man that is passionate about one issue, go see this movie. Most of all, if you want to see the shadow of “what could have been” go see this movie.
Monday Confessional
Big Monday for me, took a day off of work to get some other more important work done, lots of balls in the air right now, trying to juggle them all at the same time. Big changes could be in the works for me soon….Will keep you posted.
Wonderful day at the beach, it seems I like to swim. I had a wonderful time rolling around in the warm water today. My mother and brother are coming to visit on Saturday. It should be fun. Going to go on a whale watch, and walk around Ptown. Go to the beach, see some sights, go for some hikes.
I am really tired for some reason, guess all the mental stress of the day, combined with some sun, and swimming and I am beat.
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