Participate in the biggest mobilization of Citizens Against Global Warming!
The Alliance for the Planet [a group of environmental associations] iscalling onall citizens to create 5 minutes of electrical rest for the planet. http://www.lalliance.frhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070119/sc_afp/unclimatefrance.
People all over the world should turn off their lights and electrical applianceson the first of February 2007, between 1.55 pm and 2.00 pm in New York, 18.55 forLondon, and 19.55 for Paris, Bruxelles, and Italy. 1.55pm in Ottawa, 10.55am onthe Pacific Coast of North America.
This is not just about saving 5 minutes worth of electricity; this is about getting the attention of the media, politicians, and ourselves.
Five minutes of electrical down time for the planet: this does nottake long, andcosts nothing, and will show all political leaders that global warming is an issue that needs to come first and foremost in political debate.
Why February 1? This is the day when the new UN report on global climate changewill come out in Paris.
This event affects us all, involves us all, and provides an occasion to show how important an issue global warming is to us. If we all participate, this actioncan have real media and political weight.
Please circulate this to your utmost ability.
― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Still better than half of these clowns (hello Sonic Youth!):http://www.global-cool.com/cooltube/#
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― SÆbästìên (immortalist), Saturday, 3 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jibé (Jibé), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― SÆbästìên (immortalist), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
You would have loved to have lived like pigs, but you came along a bit too late.
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
In this sort of political action the action itself is purely impractical in terms of solving the problem. This does not make it meaningless or valueless. The meaning and value are attached to:
- the publicity the action can generate. Publicity raises public awareness. This gives the media something to report on that is 'news', as the media define it.
- the symbolism inherent in the action. It is only a tiny, impractical gesture, but a gesture with a well-defined direction that provides the meaning.
- the commitment required of a mass of individuals. Get any person to commit far enough to take an action (even a miniscule action) for a 'cause' and their committment to that cause is increased. They feel more involved and are primed to take another step in the same direction.
Lots of people deride this sort of thing as artificial and worthless, and I well understand their position, but it takes all kinds of pushing, prodding, poking and pulling to move a large mass of people into a new path.
― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Knead the world.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
The ozone layer is our fault, but that's a cancer/eyesight risk, not heat.
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― SÆbästìên (immortalist), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
IIRC, according to studies of trapped air in Greenland ice, over the past century the ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shot from a fairly steady 250 ppm over the past ten thousand years, up to closer to 300ppm. (These numbers may not be right otm, but they're pretty close.)
Can you think of any activity other than human burning of fossil fuels and cutting of rain forests that could possibly account for this? It isn't like the 20th century is renowned for a huge increase in massive super-volcanic eruptions.
― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Aqua Teen Hunger Force 1, Boston 0 (387 new answers)Lights Out for Climate Change (16 new answers)
― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link
It's the rate of change that's alarming, not the change in itself. And guess what, the rate of change has dramatically increased since the Industrial Revolution - this isn't down to coincidence.
― NickB (NickB), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
5 minutes of "electrical rest" is one of the dumbest things I've ever read, which includes every single post of mine on ILX.
― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I am not a scientist*, so could you please catalogue these other periods on this thread, like now?
*) A lie. I am, though not a meteorologist.
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― plan b: videodrome (fauxhemian), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― plan b: videodrome (fauxhemian), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Not a climatologist, but here's my understanding of it:
One of the main factors behind long term climate variation seems to be variation in axial tilt. Basically, this is the angle that the Earth leans towards the Sun at. When the angle has been least i.e when the axis of rotation has been upright, then the poles receive a lower amount of solar energy over the course of a year and are consequently a lot colder. More ice forms at the poles and this sets up positive feedback because more solar energy gets reflected back into space, further lowering the mean global temperature. As the Earth tilts towards the Sun, the poles receive more heat, ice-caps decrease and temperatures rise. This sort of pattern happens on a scale of millions of years.
Other factors causing changes in mean global temperatures are things like the movements of continents, changes in how much energy the Sun radiates, and finally, the composition of the atmosphere (the last ice age may have been caused by a lot of dust in the atmosphere, reflecting solar energy back into space). Out of all these factors, only really that last one has varied significantly over the last couple of hundred years, and the main atmospheric change has been the concentration of greenhouse gases.
― NickB (NickB), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
so should i go and watch the madness unfold y/n (it is just down the road, pretty much)
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Blackheath yes?
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, I expect to see Matt DC and Michael Jones if I go, they practically live there
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Handcuff yourself to a protestor, just for a laugh.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, there's all sorts of fabulous japes to be exercised. Probably not the worst way to guiltlessly hookup either. Might go along with a cricket set.
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I might go and say hello this evening actually, on the way back from swimming.
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Fancy A Protest
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a pub just up the road from where they've pitched up.
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Probably laughing all the way to the bank right now.
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
what a disaster for the recession
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, I expect to see Matt DC and Michael Jones if I go
jones is much further west - you're probably thinking of pinefox
― unban dictionary (blueski), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Pinefox is local? I wonder what he makes of this uprising.
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
so should i go and watch the madness unfold y/n (it is just down the road, pretty much)― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 08:42 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 08:42 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
say hi to anyone I know.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
do you know Monbiot?
― unban dictionary (blueski), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
No but this is a nice time to be looking through the news media because I see photos of plenty of people I know.
Also now is the time for ignorant comedy vitriol in the comment boxes, as if it ever isn't.
They cause more damage to the climate with all the toxic gas and crap coming out of their mouths...trouble is we have to pay for their benefit handouts- Derek, Oliva (Valencia) SpainBoth anthropogenic climate change and the idea that we live in a representative democracy are hoaxes. Most people fall for these hoaxes because they want to believe in benign government and are too jaded to look at the facts which speak otherwise.- Neil, London, London UK
- Derek, Oliva (Valencia) Spain
Both anthropogenic climate change and the idea that we live in a representative democracy are hoaxes. Most people fall for these hoaxes because they want to believe in benign government and are too jaded to look at the facts which speak otherwise.
- Neil, London, London UK
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Derek in Spain has to pay for benefits for people in the UK? Seems a bit harsh, no wonder he's upset.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i think he's just on holiday and at a loose end
― unban dictionary (blueski), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
He'll be an ex-pat. Here's a recent pic.http://content6.flixster.com/skin/profile/10/84/29/10842944_profile_mbox_background.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Red with anger, lying there fuming about lazy layabouts laying about.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
4.40pm: Three local Liberal Democrat councillors have issued a statement about the Climate Camp.
We are appalled at the disturbance caused to local residence and amenities.
We hope that both the Protesters and Police alike act with respect for the local community.
Appalled! As far as I can make out, they are currently occupying a small patch of grass in the middle of a v. large field Y/N
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Am about to verify
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I would imagine that's exactly what they are doing. The bit they're likely to be camped in isn't exactly full of housing either.
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Haven't you got any other clothes?
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 27 August 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
this is actually a really enjoyable and eye-opening event
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Saturday, 29 August 2009 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
just like an orgy
― crappy, use her name (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 August 2009 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
what is the event?
― what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Saturday, 29 August 2009 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/
now i sleep
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Saturday, 29 August 2009 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
we gonna talk about this
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
The next day at 10:30am we were assembled at the main gates in ‘Stop Airport Expansion’ t-shirts, ready to make our way to the airport to make our voices heard. A bus and tube ride later and 60 campers and local activists took over the main entrance to the airport with banners reading ‘The rich fly, the poor fry’ and ‘Stop Airport Expansion’ singing songs and hearing from those involved in preparing the action.
I would have punched anyone who made me miss a fucking pricey air flight because of a fucking flashmob, imo.
― Spy in the Cab Sav (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, reading that Mayor's blog:
And who do you think is going to have to pay to take the rubbish away, provide water and repair the Heath when they’ve gone? That’s right you and me – the taxpayers of Lewisham who were never asked and never agreed to the camp being here.
Thinking that that the approach of the Climate Change Campers uis wrong doesn’t mean you don’t care about the issue – but for me they are a distraction from the real task of changing how we behave and persuading ever more of our fellow citizens to change the way they behave too.
He kind of has a point. A lot of people *wont* see this as anything more than hippies making a mess on the lawn for no good reason. Apart from garnering attention, what's the aim/point of this specific camp, in terms of gaining actual footholds in climate change action?
― Spy in the Cab Sav (Trayce), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Dont see the point of his parallel with the football fights though, wtf.
― Spy in the Cab Sav (Trayce), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
we've actually said we're gonna leave the heath in better condition than when it was found...people have actually done litter-picking duty over the whole heath, not just our corner of it...as for the grass, well, this is a good time of year, is all i'll say, and some have mooted grass seed. a load of fuss over a barely-damaged 'lawn' which is scuffed up and ruined daily by footballers, walkers and kite-flyers is of absolutely no comparable scale to the issues we're discussing
the mayor of lewisham is making a fuss precisely because it is his duty as civic arm of power to make a fuss, plain and simple, he is making a fuss because he has to
the aim/point of this specific camp is to raise awareness of direct actions and informed communities; it is to coordinate and organise a body of highly intelligent, educated and diverse thinkers, activists and agitators into a fully democratic and equal mini-utopia, both to give us a taste of climate-conscious, fair society, and to politicise the climate change movement through debate, discussion and resolution
that's about as good as i can do for now, but trust me, having been there, it's a damn sight better behaved/more organised/friendly than i ever suspected it would be. it was deeply engaging and inclusive. and sure there were hippies, but more than not had a degree, were doing a degree, or were otherwise highly intelligent, aware and active individuals
if he was drawing parallels with football fights he is simply evading the entire purpose of the camp. due to the fact that everyone present was reasonable and cooperative, events within the fence were almost freakishly efficient, and deeply tranquil, even in protest
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Louis, any time elected officials trot out the old 'look what it costs to clean up' canard it's your duty to tell them your (council) taxes already paid for it, as they are taken in advance, so ner. Every adult Londoner pays for the Met as well, as a component of council tax, so ner to them as well.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
> your (council) taxes already paid for it, as they are taken in advance
not sure i get the logic of this.
if something has had £x budgeted for it but ended up costing £x + y then the £y has to come from somewhere, so it has cost money.
and b) i pay my council tax monthly which might qualify as 'in advance' but not by much.
― koogs, Thursday, 3 September 2009 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
the budget's set in advance for the whole year and must be balanced. they can't come back to you for £y later. and i seriously doubt they've hired extra staff for this rather than just shuffled their environmental services people around for a few days. worst case scenario: some streets didn't get swept for a bit. they'll get to them later.
it's particularly annoying that he pretends the people of lewisham are paying for this from outsiders, when most of councils' funds come from centralised taxes, so i'm paying for the clean-up as much as the mayor of lewisham is. and one of the reasons we pay our taxes is so that anyone who wants to can take part in lawful protests, so stfu mayor of lewisham.
― joe, Thursday, 3 September 2009 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
*pretends the people of lewisham are paying for this damage caused by outsiders, i meant to say
― joe, Thursday, 3 September 2009 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
What's not to understand? Joe nailed it. Mayor of Lewisham probably performs virtual fellatio on any corporate who wants to run an event in his end of the park, which makes more mess and requires plus de minions to clean up.
A smart rebuttal would also involve the extra revenue generated in the area by the presence of the campers and the big fat DUH that volunteer stewards from within the camp substantially cleaned up after themselves, for free.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a partial climbdown here, although it's a bit rich for him to claim people misunderstood him when his original argument was so poorly expressed and completely incoherent.
The Mayor's an old friend of my parents from way back and I sent my dad an email mocking him for all this. I'm pretty sure he jumped to a public position to ingratiate himself with the voters then realised he'd called it wrong and made himself look a tit in the process. Even the residents of Blackheath didn't seem unduly bothered by the camp, there was a noticeable lack of hysterically boarded up shop fronts in the village.
That said, when even Labour figures who are supposed to be relatively close to ground level are using that kind of sub-Daily Mail scare tactics is it any wonder no one wants to vote Labour?
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^a lovely raft of OTM today
Am tempted to go along later and report on the 'mess'. Maybe with pictures. It is beautiful how Labour are showing their true colours without even trying.
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL have been watching so much Big Bro that any mention of TRUE COLOURS now gives me a panic attack.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't been following this series. I trust one of the housemates is a recidivist crap-meme-generator?
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link
No, it's just if I had 10p for every time one of the housebears of little brain reached for the trusty 'we're seeing this person's true colours now' in this series I could probably buy Endemol.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Many tory frontbenchers down there (now they've all signed up to the Guardian's 10:10 campaign)?
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
To be fair, you'd only need that to happen about 13 times xp
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Tory frontbenchers? I don't bloody think so. You think they give a fuck?
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
They are totally committed. Dave says so.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah! If a wholegrain bar falls in the forest, Dave'll come a-riding.
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Are you coming up to Ratcliffe in October, Louis?
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Ratcliffe? Possibly. Depends on MA situation. But I shall try to.
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
> the budget's set in advance for the whole year and must be balanced.
that was kinda my point. the extra £y spent cleaning up the park has to come from somewhere else in the budget. something isn't going to be done because of the extra cleaning. you've inconvenienced someone. your action has had a negative effect somewhere.
suzy's point, that people who hold corporate events also pay for the cleaning up, is exactly how it should be. but somehow that equates to the mayor sucking cock...
― koogs, Thursday, 3 September 2009 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
That was not my point. Please replace the handset and dial again.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
my point was that there is no extra £y to clean up the park. lewisham has a fixed cost, £30m contract over ten years to maintain its parks.
― joe, Thursday, 3 September 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Technically it's not a park so no idea whether it actually falls inside that budget.
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 September 2009 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
dunno what kind of hairsplitting you're aiming at there but lewisham council thinks it's a park and it's managed by the same contractors, which is what matters here:
http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/LeisureAndCulture/ParksAndRecreation/LocalParks/Blackheath.htm
― joe, Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
When I go to the park I have no problems cleaning up after myself and I assume most climate campers are similar. I don't know why Koogs needs remedial instruction today but this is an easy one: a Veolia-type company was awarded the contract for the maintenance and really, if you're whinging because some private company has to slightly narrow its profits because of a handful of days over a 10-year period (and it's not proven that this is even the case, see volunteers within camp doing own cleanup) then that whole stance is just some weird Thatcherbaby BS I can't understand.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Suzy that kind of condescension coupled with putting words in other people's mouths is really not cool, especially given the cleaning contract hadn't even been mentioned when Koogs posted. Also your initial post wasn't terribly easy to parse, in fairness.
Joe - ah okay fine. Wasn't attempted hairsplitting, just wasn't sure what the deal was.
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sorry you feel that way, Matt. In fairness, I've never been near Koogs' mouth ;-)
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:38 (fifteen years ago) link
^my feelings are more to do with hatred of contracting out services to private companies for silly money, arguably the only people inconvenienced by Blackheath climate campers in monetary terms are shareholders...
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I know - there seems to be a lot of talking at cross-purposes here though. We're talking about two different views coming from two different ideas about where the money's coming from, only one of which is actually right. I don't think Koogs was defending the rights of GardeningCorp shareholders.
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Whenever people start going on about protestors or strikers being an inconvenience or a nuisance or an extra cost to society, I really can't help but finding such a reading of the situation shallow (if it's from one of us) or a form of straight-up emotional blackmail (in elected officials or other leaders). It is also marrow-level Thatcherism (apologies for being old enough to remember it).
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link
lol record sales of rolling tobacco and houmous:
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/4577371.BLACKHEATH__Climate_Camp_leaves_as_shops_count_profits/
― joe, Thursday, 3 September 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
You a local lad, joe?
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Thursday, 3 September 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
nope, north london. used to write about local govt though so i look up boring things like parks contracts.
― joe, Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film
derp
― laughing out loud lol (history mayne), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
it was great when everybody sat in the dark for an hour and we stopped climate change. good work peeps.
― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
the film is stupid and pointless?
― Pashmina, Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
It's also got a decent sprinkling of stardust – Peter Crouch, Gillian Anderson, Radiohead and others.
Cd be sentence of the year.
― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Curtis, writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Blackadder and an early 10:10 supporter, acknowledges that the 10:10 film is very direct. "The 10:10 team are a fearless, energetic bunch, completely dedicated to getting the public fired up about climate change"
With climate change becoming increasingly threatening, and decreasingly talked about in the media, we wanted to find a way to bring this critical issue back into the headlines whilst making people laugh. We were therefore delighted when Britain's leading comedy writer, Richard Curtis - writer of Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill and many others – agreed to write a short film for the 10:10 campaign. Many people found the resulting film extremely funny, but unfortunately some didn't and we sincerely apologise to anybody we have offended.
As a result of these concerns we've taken it off our website.
Laffing my fucking tits off
― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Incredible things are happening in Spanish television pic.twitter.com/AXAuEVu3ch— Zoomer Alcibiades (@HellenicVibes) October 25, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 14:42 (one week ago) link
More happenings in Spain.
🇪🇸 A crowd of furious flood survivors threw mud and shouted insults at the Spanish King, Felipe VI, as he visited a devastated town in Spain’s Valencia region.Read more here ⬇️https://t.co/KpKyV70gx7 pic.twitter.com/qc7UGJOz8I— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) November 3, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 November 2024 23:17 (five days ago) link
I had most of my lights out, but some were on. However, years ago I removed every incandescent or fluorescent lamp bulb in my house and replaced them with LEDs, which means each bulb burns only 7.5 watts despite being as bright as a 60 watt incandescent. So I feel I contributed today (and every other day) despite having some lights on. I also have an energy-saving thermostat, UV-blocking windows, good insulation, and high-efficiency fixtures and appliances. Still working on the solar tiles and electric car.
― Lee626, Monday, 4 November 2024 09:12 (four days ago) link
Last year LeMonde offered to calculate how much time you would have to do certain simple domestic actions in order to offset a flight of your choice (single-and-return).If I put Paris - Athens (roughly my last flight), it says it'd take 8 years of reducing the heating in your apartment, two years of going vegetarian, or six months of doing away with your car.If I put Paris - Johannesburg (the flight I've taken the most), it jumps to 33 years of reduced heating, eight years and a half of vegetarianism, or two years without a car.That's not to say small gestures don't matter, cause they do, but it certainly puts things into perspective.
― Nabozo, Monday, 4 November 2024 14:25 (four days ago) link