Links tagged “hollywood”

"Around 11 tons of waste packaging was recycled during the shoot, and 1.6 tons of unused food was donated to a homeless charity.Keeping up the good work, film chiefs ditched Bond's gas-guzzling supercar and gave him an eco-friendly electric Aston Martin instead.The secret agent will be seen driving the £250,000 Rapide E model, one of only 155 vehicles which have been built."

Instead of worrying about an alleged "climate emergency" why didn't Arnold and Greta worry about the more real threat of head safety on a bike ride? Why didn't Arnold care about Greta's safety?

"Under California law, all children 17 and under must wear an approved bicycle helmet. If you violate this rule, you might face fines, civil liability, and other penalties"

Lennon was scientifically correct about overpopulation fears in 1971. See: 

Slate Mag on the new population problem — UNDERPOPULATION! ‘And in the long term—on the order of centuries—we could be looking at the literal extinction of humanity’ 

Paging Ehrlich! Slate Mag: ‘About That Overpopulation Problem. Research suggests we may actually face a — declining world population in the coming years’  Climate Depot's Factsheet on Overpopulation – 'Is too few people the new 'population problem?'

PAUL EHRLICH BOMBS AGAIN: ‘In the more than four decades since The Population Bomb was published, the number of people inhabiting the Earth has more than doubled, but the death and poverty rates have dropped, and life expectancy has increased. Not only are we feeding more people than ever before, we’re doing it with less land’

Greta Thunberg: "As #COP25 (UN Climate Summit) has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help. It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way:) Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.

Former NYT reporter Andrew Revkin: "I think a binge buy of decent carbon credits (there are some) by a batch of folks could more than justify a
@GretaThunberg flight back to Europe. Or a ship crossing (there's time for that too)."

Marc Morano responds: "Andrew, This is so silly! Is virtue-signaling that important that otherwise grown educated people like yourself resort to such wacky ideas? "Binge buy" carbon credits so Greta can "justify" a flight?! This is a circus sideshow."