Comments on: Yeah, but what can I do about it?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:27:47 +0000

Ahhhh – the blame game. I know her well

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:19:45 +0000

Well that’s a great attitude to have. Just deflect the blame onto someone else. Why didn’t I think of that!
The very fact that we’ve been exploiting oil for decades now doesn’t mean we’re responsible for its depletion at all. It’s all Eastern Asia’s fault – god damn them!

By: terry kernan

terry kernan — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:28:56 +0000

I was reading about your use of fuel in your jeep and how you wanted to reduce it. someone put it to me that it really doesn’t matter how much less fuel you use, for every person in the western world that stops using fuel, 10 more people start using it in the eastern world that have just become more wealthier due to the booking economy. i think perhaps the real problem is on the other wide of the world. (imho)

By: Dallas

Dallas — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:45:32 +0000

Man, I watch documentaries. In fact since I started watching them its all that I really want to watch. My friends think I am a freak. I never cared about the environment or fuel consumption or much of anything beyond my own happiness really. Then a few documentaries later I wanted to change the world. Some how in all the media buzz I am beginning to think that I just can’t trust ANYONE. News, books, documentaries. Am I just a product of a capitalist society? I dunno. But I sure still want to change the world. Hey another really scary life changing documentary is “The End of Suburbia.” Dude, this one messed me up pretty bad.

Keep after it. There is a new world out there waiting to be had. (One that could last a really long time.)

By: skube

skube — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:39:25 +0000

Congratulations Mark! I think being aware and making some personal decisions are the vital first steps toward success.

By: Thomas C Gray

Thomas C Gray — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:21:00 +0000

That company that supposedly killed the electric car (How can you kill what was never alive?) now has an actual prical electric car ready for production in two years.
Honda dn Toyota also killed their elctric cars. In case you’ve been on Mars, you can’t build an electric car without a battery better than the NiMH junk that was availabe during the 1990s. Don’t you know what functions a car is suposed to perform? How can you swallow the lying BS of that film. Tom Hanks is so dense he thinks his $70,000 converted electric Scion makes sense. Ed Begley is terrified that he might
use a plastic bag and be criticized for it. These actors aren’t heroes – they’re dolts.
Preposterously overpaid no-talent dolts.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:30:40 +0000

Fear not Mark, for it is all a lie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzSzItt6h-s

That’s just the first 10mins of it but search for “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, another one of Channel 4′s controversial documentaries.

On the other hand, whether this all turns out to be true or false, it’ll mean that the human race will become more eco-friendly than we were before, which can only be a good thing right? Also, with oil running out, it means that research into renewable energies couldn’t come at a better time even though that by the time the oil does run out, it seems we’ll still be behind in terms of research needed, (something that’s addressed in the documentary) now THAT is a scary thought.

By: James

James — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:26:23 +0000

Kenny Ausubel’s opening vignette of how future generations are screaming at him in his dreams made for a bad initial impression to The 11th Hour. And what followed was too melodramatic for my liking.

As for the water bottles thing, I don’t know what the water is like out of the tap up there, but I read a pretty comprehensive article on water filtration, which may be of interest: http://www.metaefficient.com/water-filters/how-to-filter-your-drinking-water-very-efficiently.html

They’re a bit expensive in the initial outlay department, but compared to $1.29/20 oz., something like that would pay for itself pretty quickly.

And in the same vein of eye opening documentaries, take a look at The Fake Trade, which aired on Channel 4 in the UK for something particularly disturbing.