Post by Old Ironsights on Mar 16, 2007 17:29:09 GMT -5
parson said:
Several months ago, Paul Harvey actually reported that the single largest source of such pollutants was a result of the lower caste masses in India cooking over their open fires. Don't know how reliable ol' Paul is, but that's what he said.parson
If it is, the Hollyweird types aren't far behind...
"In a column for the Orange County Register, Reason's Sam Staley, a Toyota Prius driver, points out that the "film and television industry runs second in total air pollution emissions, behind only petroleum refining" and asks, "Will Leonardo DiCaprio boycott studios that don't meet 'green' production criteria? Will Melissa Etheridge withhold her next CD unless its production, distribution, and marketing are carbon-neutral and pollution-free? While DiCaprio and Etheridge do more than most to live 'green,' including driving hybrid cars, most Hollywood executives and actors don't take these steps. In the real world, the people that will bear the real costs of proposals to fight climate change – things like restrictions on travel and household energy use - will be the vast majority of us with precious little discretionary income to pay carbon penance. No one offers you or me free transportation, or environmentally conscious products at prices well below their actual market cost.
Instead of imploring us to do something, Hollywood should focus on its own pollution. Moviemakers should pioneer new technologies and strategies for protecting the environment and reducing greenhouse gases that are both practical and cost effective. Those advances could then make it possible or more realistic for the waiters, bartenders and sales people who haven't been discovered yet to 'do their part' as the stars like to say."
reason.org/commentaries/staley_20070314.shtml