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[Mar. 14th, 2009|10:13 am] |
Last Thursday's Radio 4 afternoon play was a strange docu-drama things about a family reducing their carbon dioxide responsibilities - Getting to Zero by Sarah Woods - Drama-documentary exploring how a fictional family can eliminate their carbon footprint, with a panel of real advisers: George Monbiot, Paul Allen, and Peter Harper from the Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales.
Interesting, but flawed (although I did miss bits of it), but it did touch on the fact that basically - we're going to have to make difficult changes to our lives. It's literally a propspect too big to contemplate, so people aren't. A frustrating conversation with a new labour cog in the machine some time ago pointed out the political problem - they think it's more important that they don't make the required changes and stay in power rather than bring them in, because the required actions will be unpopular, and lose them the next election. Because that's more important, right?
Age of Stupid launches with special preview screenings this Sunday, tomorrow (info on website). In their words, it 'stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?'.
I haven't seem it and it sounds like a great idea, but too many people will dismiss it as 'green propaganda'. People don't want to believe in it because it's easier not to. There are no answers other than take our own futures in our hands, do something ourselves, serious, radical action. While we have a government that wants to add a third runway at Heathrow rather than make flights a rare luxury, only when really necessary (not to mention band cheap flights), we're, frankly, f*cked. And what government is going to take away £9.99 flights to the sun from it's voters?
Of course no-one listens to people like me/us, we're loonies in rainbow jumpers declaring the sky is falling. But if this continues, if people continue not to listen, we'll be proved right. And we don't want that, do we? |
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