Comments on: Green is the Color of Money

By: Resister

Resister — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:34:04 +0000

Hey Jolene – See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/21/greenpeace-backs-commercial-whaling-ban

and

http://www.seashepherd.org/commentary-and-editorials/2010/06/21/the-rainbow-fades-as-greenpeace-betrays-the-whales-87

By: Jolene

Jolene — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:49:22 +0000

Hi There,

I’m looking for a source on the statement at 08:10.
Where can I find this agreement?

I am definitely of the mind that larger environmental groups serve as stepping stones towards the more serious local ones.

It’s tough to draw out my line in this forum, but this has been some very useful points to think on. Great work, thank you!

By: bodhidharma

bodhidharma — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:27:18 +0000

–”I hope your film is a wake up call for all ‘environmentalists’ who have become complacent or too wrapped up in the day to day of winning little battles here and there, to notice that we are losing the war.

But if you’re only presenting the failures, then you are just part of the problem. How do we win? How do we motivate and stimulate and inspire this change?”–
Isn’t the first part of your statement an answer to the second part?
The best to be hoped for is that people learn to think for themselves, not have their ideas spoonfed to them by a monolithic left or right. What END:CIV does so well is point out that we are already long past the point of easy solutions and disaster is inevitable. And that radical action is required to mitigate this disaster to salvage as much as possible. Wish it had concentrated a bit on the overpopulation problem, which I consider the largest problem we face, dwarfing even climate change(!!!!) There are at least 5 billion more people on this planet than it can sustain indefinitly, and if we do not do something about this, real solutions to the other problems are impossible.

By: Lucian

Lucian — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:05:24 +0000

I understand the dichotomy draw between complacent capitalist solutions offered by sellouts at Greenpeace and the true activists that make those organizations effective and necessary, but it is not that simple!
Removing power structures creates the opportunity for another to rise in its place. No matter what, there needs to be an exit strategy for humanity. I am not asking for a better way to live to be presented in the span of this movie, but I do want people to know that a permanent culture is available to replace everything that is torn down. Can this movie help me solve how the new system can best arise?
The best I could think of if harnessing crowd funding to organize an independent network of sustainable processes for deriving my essentials. I just wish I could see how it would work, for myself and everyone around me, because then I would already be doing it!

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:59:23 +0000

Thank you Franklin, Green = Money is damn good!

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By: Suissebird

Suissebird — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:04:28 +0000

http://mikemalloy.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=67186
Google: BP may have triggered the start of a Mass Extinction Event

I would like for you to look check this out because it is something that my ex and I have discussed long before ButtPirates had their orgasm in the Gulf. The byproducts of gases being released into the atmosphere and the real possibility that we are changing the climate as we live. I don’t know if you have covered it or not.

The articles explains ‘increasing’ concern of a possible toxic explosion and the possible collapse of the sea floor (20 miles or more wide) triggering a tsunami that could destroy coastlines. And that isn’t the worst part. Whatever the event, it could turn the atmosphere into a powder keg, and toxic breathing environment wiping a massive part of the earth’s life. Alarmist, maybe. But look at the Gulf of Mexico.

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:31:07 +0000

Hmmm, interesting and some very valid points – we certainly need to challenge the economic status quo of continual growth and valuing nature only as a potential resource for human beings.

However, Greenpeace is one of the few environmental groups that doesn’t take any funding from corporates, and publically challenges the range of industry groups set up, in theory, to address environmental challenges such as palm oil production, and tuna fishing, as well as ‘sustainability’ certification programmes that fail to deliver real sustainability. I hope the film also takes a closer look at those groups that do take corporate funding and help protect these industry bodies even when there is no real action being taken, and the true impacts of this.

I hope your film is a wake up call for all ‘environmentalists’ who have become complacent or too wrapped up in the day to day of winning little battles here and there, to notice that we are losing the war.

But if you’re only presenting the failures, then you are just part of the problem. How do we win? How do we motivate and stimulate and inspire this change?

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By: Pauline

Pauline — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:49:57 +0000

Hope lots of people see this film. Awareness is the first step.
Fighting corporate power will take grass roots action.