Programme description:
"A group of environmentalists are challenging the movement they helped to create. These life-long diehard greens advocate radical solutions to climate change, including GM crops and nuclear energy."
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/what-the-green-movement-got-wrong
Followed by a live studio debate:
"Krishnan Guru-Murthy chairs a studio debate to discuss the issues raised in the documentary, What the Green Movement Got Wrong.
The film's leading protagonists, former anti-GM activist and author Mark Lynas and Stewart Brand, a pioneer of the original green lobby, face critics from today's green movement in front of an informed studio audience.
Leading policy makers, commentators, scientists, entrepreneurs and economists debate the impact the green movement has had on global climate change and whether embracing the very science and technology the greens once so stridently opposed, such as GM crops and nuclear energy, would be more successful in reducing the risks to the planet from global warming."
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/what-the-green-movement-got-wrong/epi...
I posted a comment; a short piece on GM crops, followed by TZM and RBE "Bullet Points", which has to be approved.
More contact info:
http://help.channel4.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=C4_Author,Compan...
This in particular took my attention:
> They argue that by clinging to an ideology formed more than 40 years ago, the traditional green
> lobby has failed in its aims and is ultimately harming its own environmental cause.
Let us try and avoid the same ideology clinging to and not end up in 40 years time wishing we had done things differently.
Do you have a copy of what you said Feral by the way ?
I'm not overly confident in CREATING a comment. I was looking for an already published piece that stated, in less than 4000 characters/words, our proposal ....... to raise awareness.
I opened with a copy and paste from this article (starting with Multinational, down to line 7 or 8?):
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/12178-meat-claimed-as...
And typed: "Full article" followed by the above link.
And commented "In our current capitalist/monetary system profit takes precedent".
........ just over 1000 characters/words?
I, then, posted (copied and pasted):
http://www.thezeitgeistmovementuk.com/site/key-points
..... which was about 2700? words? (3900ish in total)
I don't know how useful it is to comment on there? I'm sure one of you can manage a better comment.
"Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." Cree Prophecy.
Maybe others of you could explain our proposal better? but, anyway, my comment has been "approved" and published ........ with a click on my name linking to this website.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/what-the-green-movement-got-wrong/epi...
"Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." Cree Prophecy.
Very well done in getting a comment in, and one with a URL, and one that is top of the tree!
It will be interesting to see if causes any traffic to come our way from there. (Perhaps the admins can check the webstats regularly to spot how effective efforts like this are.)