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The Earth Day Special - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-23-2022 I meant to post this yesterday. Quote:The Earth Day Special (1990)His usual lengthy review continues at link above. Stars Dan Aykroyd, Candice Bergen, James Brolin. IMDB RE: The Earth Day Special - BIAD - 04-24-2022 (04-23-2022, 07:46 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: I meant to post this yesterday... I took a look at the IMDB quotes of the movie you kindly linked and I was astounded by the amount of virtue-signalling and social-class designation. Below are a couple of lines from the script. Kelly Bundy: (Christina Applegate) "Miss Rhoades, how long can the Earth survive if we don't start doing this?" [recycling] Marcy D'Arcy: (Amanda Bearse) "Who knows? Maybe as little as a hundred years." Al Bundy: (Ed O'Neill) "So what's the rush? A hundred years? We'll all be dead by then! A hundred years. I thought this was an emergency." Kelly Bundy, a hair-head character with promiscuous tendencies and struggles to grasp the everyday reality of growing-up. Applegate's character is an ideal Hollywood example of what they see as innocence. Free from the taboo of sexual-restraint and due to her gullibility, willing to ask a question she believes others more academic than herself hold the answer to. Marcy D'Arcy, a neighbour who works in a bank. Obviously -(supposedly), this character is more informed because of her employment environment. Hollywood likes to show that those who work in offices are smarter than those who work on construction sites or sell shoes. However, D'Arcy's reply to Kelly's question is in the form of a question. She doesn't know and is just adhering to the fear-tactic used throughout the 'Earth Day Special'. Al Bundy, a stereotypical male character who's parsimonious view on life shields him from the nuances of the proposed reality and is there to reflect a narrative many in Hollywood like to present on men who are deemed 'defective ideal husbands'. ............................................................ Hospital director: (Edward James Olmos 'Gaff' from Blade Runner) [Doc Brown shows images of polution on a computer screen] "You want me to believe this is the future?" *Note: 'Pollution has two 'L's'. Dr. Emmet' Brown: (Christopher Lloyd) "No, this is the present. I've been to the future. It's not that good." Pure 'Trust The Science' from Hollywood, even then back at the beginning of the nineties. Anyone who works in a hospital or carries the label 'Doctor' is far-more intelligent than the average person and should always be listened to. I'll guarantee Fauci went to see this movie! ............................................................ Walter Samson: (Morgan Freeman) "The forests are the lungs of the planet, and if they stop breathing we stop." With Mr Freeman's Grand-father's confident drawl, the character's quote will seem as verity and the simple wording indicates the facts are in and any debate is fruitless. ............................................................ Odd isn't it? The plastics and the atmosphere-damaging fumes come from industry and yet a movie is made for the public to view and digest. Wouldn't the money spent on this all-star cast be better used on convincing the global industries to just stop manufacturing these alleged planet-killing commodities and residue? Only the consumer is barraged with this guilt-laden narrative and the companies that create the supposed problem are never identified or accused in public. It's almost like the gripe about pollution -whether with one 'L' or two, is constructed in a business-like form, a constant bombardment of words to terrify the public of something they're not the primary culprits of and are merely respondents to the advertising that tempts them to purchase such Earth-damaging wares. Maybe those who create and use TV commercials to gain money should be partly held accountable for the concerns these well-paid actors and actresses are saying...? Er, but that could lead to blaming Hollywood and we can't have that now, can we?! RE: The Earth Day Special - Snarl - 04-24-2022 (04-24-2022, 09:52 AM)BIAD Wrote: It's almost like the gripe about pollution -whether with one 'L' or two, is constructed in a business-like form, a constant bombardment of Humans can't hurt the Earth. Can barely even leave their mark on Her. RE: The Earth Day Special - hounddoghowlie - 04-24-2022 (04-24-2022, 03:23 PM)Snarl Wrote: Humans can't hurt the Earth. Can barely even leave their mark on Her. I'd have to argue with that, a couple of images where humans have left their mark. The the world's largest at 4.3 km (2.7 mi) long, 3 km (1.9 mi) wide and over 900 m (3,000 ft) deep. Chuquicamata, locally known as “Chuqui”, is the biggest open-pit copper mine in the world by excavated volume. The pit is located in the north of Chile. The mine is owned and operated by Codelco, the Chilean state enterprise. Located in Siberia, Russia, the Mirny mine is a former open-pit diamond deposit, now inactive. The mine is 1,722 ft deep and has a diameter of 3,900 ft, being the second largest excavated hole in the world. The airspace above the mine had to be closed because helicopters were sucked in by the airflow. Quote:Here is my list of the Top 15 largest and biggest mines in the world: They are economically big and physically large, taking a lot of time and power to excavate using special mining equipment. But in their core, there’s what big mining companies are looking for: the precious ore. Join us as we explore the world of the largest man-made canyons yet. then there's Clear Cut Logging, this is a link for images in just the Amazon. You can do a search for for where ever logging is a big industry and see the same thing. clear cut logging in the amazon Then you have to think about all the damns that have been built, Three Gorges, TVA, Hoover, just to name a few. All that i pointed out are the large ones, didn't even go into other industries or smaller operations which there are thousands world wide. Now don't miss understand me, it's nothing compared to what nature the earth can do, and I realize that humans need the resources that these produce. But to say that building or getting them in such massive scale is not leaving a mark long term is incorrect. ETA: I left one out that I wanted to show, they say this is estimated to be twice the size of Texas, or three time the size of France. It kills marine life and, birds thst feed off of it, and also gets into the human food supply from the fish and other marine life that eats the plastic. The GPGP (Great Pacific Garbage Patch) There another one in the Atlantic, I'd call that a big ol mark. RE: The Earth Day Special - Snarl - 04-25-2022 (04-24-2022, 04:09 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:(04-24-2022, 03:23 PM)Snarl Wrote: Humans can't hurt the Earth. Can barely even leave their mark on Her. (Good post) I wouldn't argue your point. I firmly believe the Great Sphinx is manmade and has withstood the test of time (even though Nature almost buried it at one point). If civilization fell ... in a thousand years ... there'd be little to nothing left. Megaliths (that would likely include your mines) tend to stay. Probably our nuclear waste will too, unless we find a way to give it back to the Earth's core. Kind'a wonder about the micro-plastics issue too. RE: The Earth Day Special - hounddoghowlie - 04-25-2022 (04-25-2022, 01:25 PM)Snarl Wrote: If civilization fell ... in a thousand years ... there'd be little to nothing left. Megaliths (that would likely include your mines) tend to stay. Probably our nuclear waste will too, unless we find a way to give it back to the Earth's core. Kind'a wonder about the micro-plastics issue too. True, any thing that wouldn't rot, deteriorate in a few years would be incorporated back into nature somehow. Like the cities that have been swallowed up in south and central america by the jungle, before lidar you could be walking in the middle of one and never know it. RE: The Earth Day Special - Snarl - 04-25-2022 (04-25-2022, 01:35 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:(04-25-2022, 01:25 PM)Snarl Wrote: If civilization fell ... in a thousand years ... there'd be little to nothing left. Megaliths (that would likely include your mines) tend to stay. Probably our nuclear waste will too, unless we find a way to give it back to the Earth's core. Kind'a wonder about the micro-plastics issue too. My mind always goes to concrete. Ours doesn't last anywhere near as long as the stuff the Romans built their aqueducts with. So, I guess there would be deposits of the stuff thousands of years from now, but would anyone from a follow-on civilization be able to deduce what they once were. RE: The Earth Day Special - hounddoghowlie - 04-25-2022 (04-25-2022, 01:58 PM)Snarl Wrote:(04-25-2022, 01:35 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:(04-25-2022, 01:25 PM)Snarl Wrote: If civilization fell ... in a thousand years ... there'd be little to nothing left. Megaliths (that would likely include your mines) tend to stay. Probably our nuclear waste will too, unless we find a way to give it back to the Earth's core. Kind'a wonder about the micro-plastics issue too. I've thought about concrete myself, it's not unusual to be digging in the yard and find some or get a load of fill dirt that had big chunks of it in it. Another thing I thought about is land fills. The county I live in when we first moved the farm here landfill, you used to have to drive down into the pit that was about 75 foot deep, that was 50 years ago. Now you have to drive around a a trash mountain that I'd say is least 150 200 foot tall. Some trash depending on how it is compacted takes for ever to deteriorate, and some never does.glass, some metals, plastics, hell on the farm we use to find trash dumps of old bottles and coffee cans and even had some paper you could still read the writing on. We knew that the family that owned the 500 acres use to dump trash in several spots and it was three generations that lived on it. RE: The Earth Day Special - Snarl - 04-25-2022 (04-25-2022, 02:16 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:(04-25-2022, 01:58 PM)Snarl Wrote:(04-25-2022, 01:35 PM)hounddoghowlie Wrote:(04-25-2022, 01:25 PM)Snarl Wrote: If civilization fell ... in a thousand years ... there'd be little to nothing left. Megaliths (that would likely include your mines) tend to stay. Probably our nuclear waste will too, unless we find a way to give it back to the Earth's core. Kind'a wonder about the micro-plastics issue too. Buried stuff does tend to last longer. We uncovered some really old C-Rats in the field at Fort Hood. I think they were from back in the '40s ... they had 4 cigarettes in a pack. Still edible too. Talk about young and dumb ... LMAO ... I'll never know how I survived my youth. |