I risk being ticked off as a grump, but I was just wondering how much more awareness this planet can afford: Man swims at north pole
I'm assuming he didn't swim there, and I seem to recall on the news more than few around who went with to 'share the moment'. And broadcast it to boost those ratings.
I'm thinking of starting a travel agency called Awareness Offsets, whereby you go pretty much where you fancy, but when you get back you can upload your home movies and claim it was to 'raise awareness' of the area of outstanding natural beauty you just screwed up by trampling all over it or simply by getting there.
You may even get a media outlet - especially a green one - to fund you! But only if you move in their circles, Ok, yah?
Junkk.com promotes fun, reward-based e-practices, sharing oodles of info in objective, balanced ways. But we do have personal opinions, too! Hence this slightly ‘off of site, top of mind' blog by Junkk Male Peter. Hopefully still more ‘concerned mates’ than 'do this... or else' nannies, with critiques seen as constructive or of a more eyebrow-twitching ‘Oh, really?!' variety. Little that’s green can be viewed only in black and white.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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I believe in freedom of speech. But I also don't like bullies on blogs, even verbal ones, as they can drive away those with something valid to say... or offer.
Subjective is fine, but well argued and substantiated is even better. Calm and polite tops. Anything that crosses my personal line will not go up. There may be reasons given, but not guaranteed.
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At least the (so called) experts are now calling for action - see Experts call for action on climate from ePolitix.com.
ReplyDeleteThis from Soli Townsend, the co-founder and managing director of Futerra ....
"The language of climate change has been associated with being so cinematic, so huge it's almost pornographic," Townsend said. "We almost kind of enjoy it, it's like picking a scab - isn't it going to be so awful."
I have to confess that I hadn't thought about climate change in quite that way!
We have ever more hairbrained 'awareness raising' schemes (how about I swim down the Trent & Mersey canal, then via the Worcester canal, and then via the River Wye, for our next meeting?), and more and more experts (though to me they seem to be mainly pols and quango members?) calling for action to be taken, but the actual 'doing' and 'action' is ...... where exactly?