31 August 2006

A film, an event, an inconvenient truth

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Greens and lovers of Greens rejoice!

Green MLA Deb Foskey has put out a media release inviting you all to a great Green love in at Greater Union Manuka tomorrow night to listen to the Tasmanian Senator, Christine Milne, agree with each other about how bad the rest of us are, and watch an advance screening of Al Gore’s latest jeremiad, An Inconvenient Truth.

Call 6247 6305 to book a $20 ticket or just go with the flow and rock up to the doors at 6.30pm.

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Well I went and saw it tonight and I thought it was very good. It does a good coverage of the major issues and presents a good case of the evidence (plus being a good film). Couple of minor flaws here and there but nothing that undermines the premise of the film. I suggest if you doubt the science of the film you look at the review here http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=299 (by climate scientists). And in support of Roland – yes, vegetarianism is far less damaging in terms of climate change than other diets according to recent research http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/TenWays/story?id=2119267&page=1

Onions do that to me

barking toad4:39 pm 01 Sep 06

vegetables feel pain too ya know

I cry as I gouge the eyes out of potatoes I peel

Precisely.

Absent Diane2:36 pm 01 Sep 06

I would revert back to my vegetarian ways if I had to kill the animals which I eat.

As it should be. We tend to chuck away all the nasty squiggly bits. I reckon they’re the best.

‘sides. If you’re going to kill a sociable and intelligent animal like a pig, at least treat it’s remains with a little dignity by using it all.

There were Italians living on the farm next door when I grew up – they used to raise their own pigs and slaughter them on an upturned box-pallet. The made bacon, spec, sausage, salami, ham, blood sausage you name it – my dad used to joke that the only thing they didn’t use was the squeal.

…and taste mighty fine with vinegarette.

Eggplant and sweet potato barbecue up quite nicely though

I think the way to solve it is to only permit people to eat meat from an animal that they are prepared to kill themselves.

I’d say there’d be a few less people eating bacon if they had to stare Babe in the eye before plunging a knife into its jugular.

More for me that way, too.

Who gives a shit Roland – you can’t barbeque a lettuce leaf…

barking toad12:35 pm 01 Sep 06

baked beans and lentil burgers cause global warming though

actually, barking toadie, I underatnd that if we all became vegetarians the planet would be in much healthier state: in terms of greenhouse gases, biodiversity, general impact on the planet.

barking toad11:43 am 01 Sep 06

I blame the tree hugging hippy vegos for
not eating meat. Tuck into a big t-bone you
hippies for Gaia’s sake.

At http://antigreen.blogspot.com/ there’s an post about farting/burping cows contributing 10% of our greenhouse gases and how the state gubbmints are going to stop it

Its burps actually – ruminants punch way above their weight in the methane producation department – but the majority of gas leaves the beast via it’s mouth – hence my breath freshener comment on another thread…

I’m of the opinion that it’s all cow’s flatus…

Thumper – despite commonly held views, atmospheric ozone depletion (the ‘hole” in the ozone layer) and climate change are to a great extent separate issues – the relationship exists because the major league ozone depleting substances – CFCs have a high CO2 equivalence and the adopted alternative gasses, mainly HFCs have a high CO2 equivalence but don’t burn a hole in the ozone layer.

Basically a ‘hole’ in the ozone layer wont make the world any hotter – you’ll just get sunburned quicker. The good news is that by effectively stopping the use of CFCs and by limiting and reducing use of the other ozone depleters, namely HCFCs and methyl bromide the atmospheric balance of ozone will return – eventually. Climate change on the other hand is a completely different kettle of monkeys….

barking toad12:36 pm 31 Aug 06

“Film of the year”??? Box office figures don’t support that claim.

The enviro-nazis will be out in force for this one and chrissie and deb will claim the event a huge success because all the acolytes will be singing from the same hymn sheet.

The zealots will emerge from the theatre nodding their heads convinced of al’s claims that the sky is falling because of global warming. The same types were convinced the sky was falling 30 odd years ago because of global cooling as we entered the new ice age.

A bit like terry lane from the age, they’ll believe it’s true because it’s what they want to believe.

And, of course, all these tree hugging lefty latte/chardonnay sippers (don’t ya just love gratuitous stereotyping) will leave their cars at Manuka and walk home to help al’s cause and deb and chrissie will smugly pedal away on their recumbent bicycle built for two.

For alternative views to al’s claims you can go to :

http://junkscience.com/ or
http://antigreen.blogspot.com/

(dunno how to do the linky things but jb might fix that)

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