December 13, 2007

Climate change: The convenient escape

Is it just me or you also think the climate change has become a convenient escape for many celebrities who are under social pressure to get involved in public activism, but can not afford the risk of antagonizing certain sources of political power?

I mean, don't you think for, say Paris Hilton, it is much less risky to fight for the cause of climate change rather than the Iraqi occupation?

Ultimately, the responsibility for climate change is so distributed that it almost doesn't bear on anyone's shoulders, and at the end of the day, you can always blame God or nature, anyway.

Just a thought, while I'm supposed to finish four essays until the first week of January. :)

Posted by hoder at December 13, 2007 6:39 PM| TrackBack

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FYI, an interesting take on this overweening issue: http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/05/01/1090/ Here's an audio interview: http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/redeye@coopradio.org/91-1-20070607-Noble_on_global_warming.mp3
- By: sk on December 15, 2007
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Well, there are very real and powerful vested interests, with names and addresses, to be non-violently confronted if - as is essential for a less violent more equal future - greenhouse gas emissions are to be radically reduced: the coal industry (in the US, Australia and many other places); the oil industry (passim) etc. Things will probably only change (to, e.g. a high price on carbon and really serious investment in clean energy production) as a result of effective, wide-scale political mobilisation. Celebrities can sometimes be a useful instrument in this (and I speak as someone who has contempt for Paris Hilton). That's not to say that other issues, such as the Iraqi occupation are any less important
- By: Caspar Henderson on December 14, 2007
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