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"Earth Days"
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
In his new film "Earth Days," director Robert Stone examines the early days of the environmental movement--from rustlings in the 1950's to the first Earth Day in 1970 through the intense activism that followed.
"Earth Days" opens August 14th at The Quad Cinema.
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The logic that people will change their fuel-consuming habits by raising prices is counter-intuitive.
If you want to change someone's behavior, find an alternative that is CHEAPER.
Why not take the money that is being used for carbon cap-and-trade legislation and policies and instead spend it researching and developing alternative energy sources to make them cheaper sooner so people will WANT to switch?
Doesn't Brazil already have cars that don't use gas. I think they have it for ten years already. This is not Rocket Science.
Dave
If I have summarize environmentalism in the United States: Talk is cheap.
I am disappointed in humanity.
The problem is that people do not see much of the more creeping and insidious environmental pollution and degradation like greenhouse gases (climate change), agricultural nitrate runoff (algae blooms-dead zones), destruction of biodiversity, etc.
People are too fat and comfortable to disrupt the status quo by switching to green industries and by having a lifestyle different to what is expected as a red-blooded American.
If you can't see it, it costs something up front, and could be painful, why do it?
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