Comments on: Hallelujah! The World Is Saved! http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/ Travel stories, world music, travel books, and a close peek at unique destinations. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:32:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Perceptive Travel Blog » Blog Archive http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-943 Perceptive Travel Blog » Blog Archive Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:29:20 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-943 [...] problems are a by-product waste, an excess of consumerism as Steve so eloquently pointed out in a recent post. People not only expect to be able to heat and cool their homes — no matter how large or [...] […] problems are a by-product waste, an excess of consumerism as Steve so eloquently pointed out in a recent post. People not only expect to be able to heat and cool their homes — no matter how large or […]

]]> By: Greg http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-747 Greg Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:48:27 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-747 I sense some frustration there Steve? I've read a few of your articles and comments on writer's forums and at least you say what's on your mind. However, as an Environmental Scientist and now a struggling hack on a keyboard who dabbles in travel and environmental writing I have to agree with you. Symbolic gestures delight the comfortable masses. It makes them feel good when they travel back to their terrace-house unit and turn on the plasma screen to see the next fashionable item to consume. Being involved in environmental issues for the last 17 years, it makes me just a tiny bit mad to see everyone suddenly switch on to a problem that has only now become fashionable because 'the mega-star tells me so'. Quietly, behind the scenes, there have been many working to get the message out for decades, but the dull masses were too busy planning their next trip or rave party. After the concert here in Australia one party goer answered a reporters question: "What have you learnt from this concert?" "Turn a light off when I get home," she said. I guess this implies all the lights were on whilst she was at the concert? I sense some frustration there Steve? I’ve read a few of your articles and comments on writer’s forums and at least you say what’s on your mind. However, as an Environmental Scientist and now a struggling hack on a keyboard who dabbles in travel and environmental writing I have to agree with you.

Symbolic gestures delight the comfortable masses. It makes them feel good when they travel back to their terrace-house unit and turn on the plasma screen to see the next fashionable item to consume.

Being involved in environmental issues for the last 17 years, it makes me just a tiny bit mad to see everyone suddenly switch on to a problem that has only now become fashionable because ‘the mega-star tells me so’. Quietly, behind the scenes, there have been many working to get the message out for decades, but the dull masses were too busy planning their next trip or rave party. After the concert here in Australia one party goer answered a reporters question: “What have you learnt from this concert?” “Turn a light off when I get home,” she said. I guess this implies all the lights were on whilst she was at the concert?

]]> By: Antonia http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-725 Antonia Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:22:25 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-725 What? You want to quadruple the taxes we Americans pay on our gas? (The word "petrol" is a socialist plot, or else a nose-in-air attempt at a royalist plot, take your pick.) That's positively un-American! We have our own damn oil reserves! The liquid gold in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will keep our SUVs running for a whole year! Go get your own planet. We're using this one. Seriously, I share your frustration. When did we skip over the simple "reduce, reuse, recycle" message that was aimed at the <i>environment we live in</i>, like the quality of our local air, water, and soil, not just one massive issue that most people can't grasp and societies don't want to deal with? Fight global warming! With what? Fair trade organic bottled water from Fiji in a spray gun manufactured in a slave-conditions factory in China? What? You want to quadruple the taxes we Americans pay on our gas? (The word “petrol” is a socialist plot, or else a nose-in-air attempt at a royalist plot, take your pick.) That’s positively un-American! We have our own damn oil reserves! The liquid gold in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will keep our SUVs running for a whole year! Go get your own planet. We’re using this one.

Seriously, I share your frustration. When did we skip over the simple “reduce, reuse, recycle” message that was aimed at the environment we live in, like the quality of our local air, water, and soil, not just one massive issue that most people can’t grasp and societies don’t want to deal with? Fight global warming! With what? Fair trade organic bottled water from Fiji in a spray gun manufactured in a slave-conditions factory in China?

]]> By: Tim http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-718 Tim Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:33:48 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-718 I love too how the music industry bundles CDs in inpenetrable double-wrapped plastic, tosses the ones that don't sell into a landfill, and fights every attempt to bypass physical product with downloads like it's a satanic conspiracy to take money out of musicians' pockets. I'd love to count the number of plastic bottled water containers tossed away backstage at those concerts too. Kinda like when I went to an Earth Day festival where I live and they were serving soft drinks in styrofoam cups. Nice message to be sending. I love too how the music industry bundles CDs in inpenetrable double-wrapped plastic, tosses the ones that don’t sell into a landfill, and fights every attempt to bypass physical product with downloads like it’s a satanic conspiracy to take money out of musicians’ pockets. I’d love to count the number of plastic bottled water containers tossed away backstage at those concerts too. Kinda like when I went to an Earth Day festival where I live and they were serving soft drinks in styrofoam cups. Nice message to be sending.

]]> By: Ken http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-701 Ken Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:33:15 +0000 http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/07/07/hallelujah-the-world-is-saved/#comment-701 Don't sugar coat it Steve tell us how you really feel! Global warming is just another problem to add to the list of problems we already have and I don't see the music industry solving any problems we have had. Do you? Being that CD sales have been slumping for 7 straight years could be a big clue to the jet set crowd we don't care about them anymore. Don’t sugar coat it Steve tell us how you really feel! Global warming is just another problem to add to the list of problems we already have and I don’t see the music industry solving any problems we have had. Do you?
Being that CD sales have been slumping for 7 straight years could be a big clue to the jet set crowd we don’t care about them anymore.

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