Last night Mary Milan and I saw An Inconvenient Truth. It’s a fascinating, sad, enraging, and yet hopeful film that everybody should see.
If I could do one thing, it would be to mail every member of Congress a copy of the movie and make them watch it because there is only one take home message: “Climate change will fuck us up if we continue to let it.”
The producers of the film had a similar idea. They wanted to give 50,000 copies of the DVD to schools around the nation to show kids in science class, maybe in hopes that our nation’s youth will pester their parents about why they’re not living a carbon neutral life and why they want to leave behind a hot, barren, uninhabitable earth for their kids to die in.
What a great idea - it’s Miller Time, right?
Uh, no.
As if the movie weren’t enough to get you mad, Blue Mandy’s new mentor and internet superstar Cory Doctorow boinged The Conscious Earth blog which has news about how The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), which is the nation’s leading coalition of science teachers, rejected the offer because it would risk the financial support of “certain targeted supporters.”
Hmm…who might be a large corporation that would take umbrage to our nation’s kids seeing An Inconvenient Truth?
I’ll give you three guesses but you’re only gonna need one.
Exxon Mobil, bitches!
AAYIEEEEE!!!
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johnnyhongkong says… » The EPA wuz here added these pithy words on Dec 05 06 at 11:09 pm[…] Wow, more metablogging madness: the EPA found us via direct request and of course called up the “hottt in’ere” post. Bruckheimer and Mackey (or their minions) were led here in their search for something, this person at the EPA actually typed “johnnyhongkong.com” into their Firefox browser (seriously, the EPA uses Firefox? How progressive). […]
Mary added these pithy words on Nov 27 06 at 9:05 pmSomeone needs to die. Die, I tell you. Yes, Exxon, and all you other gutless, selfish, inconsiderate, short-sighted, money-hungry, uncaring, on-par-with the insurance companies, bastards: I’m threatening you. ASSHOLES!
I know it’s hard for all of you rich policy-influencing big wigs to consider possibly down-grading to a 2 homes and 3 vacations a year life style from your typical 2 regular homes, plus 2 vacation homes, plus 6 vacations a year…but suck it the fuck up. Have a little dignity. I swear, you won’t go hungry from it.
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