White tissues, greenwash
Greenpeace NZ have got their eyes on the Emissions Trading Scheme but Greenpeace USA are campaigning on paper tissues. You see Multinational company Kimberly Clark clear fells ancient forests to make its Kleenex tissues and, ironically, it has now decided to advertise those same tissues with the robot character from Disney-Pixar’s latest environmentally themed film, Wall*E. So Greenpeace has commissioned this video to highlight the hypocrisy and greenwash:
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August 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
gee frog..!..
i’m becoming more and more uneasy/(certain?) that you know the plan is to pass this legislation..
..and that you are part of the ‘damage-control’/spin being run on us..
you choose now..to feature the ‘good works’ of an organisation committed to urging its’ members to email the green party urging them to do labours’ bidding..?
and pass this poxy/ineffectual legislation..
legislation guaranteeing subsidies to ($750,000+ av. income..) polluting farmers..
..plus the transport companies/industry..
..and expecting the rest of us to subsidise/pay for these fat-cats..
..untill 2030..(!)..
(read the fine print..their initial payments..starting in 2013..start from a very low base..
..and mean they don’t have to pay their full polluting costs until 2030..)
..and just as we go into a very deep recession/economic meltdown..
brilliant..!..
w.t.f.. are you trying to ’sell’ us..!
phil(whoar.co.nz)
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 am
On the subject of greenwash it is interesting to see Shaun Tan switching to Act:
“ACT’s stance on Law and Order is indeed what convinced me to join, though not the only reason why I joined, the ACT Party. My association with ACT is quite simply the culmination of a journey of self-discovery, ‘quarter-life crisis’ and cultural reconnection that began at the end of last year, and precipitated by the ‘South Auckland saga’.
In fact, my alias ‘bledback2life’ was chosen to educidate my transition (some would say transmogrification) from the Greens and the Left to ACT and the realm of liberalism. I juxtaposed the concept of bleeding/blood loss with that of resurrection, in a deliberate act of oxymoronic temerity, in order to illustrate that it has been the exorcising of my Marxist demons, and the purging of Leftist ideology, from my mind and body which has allowed me to be cleansed and thus feel alive once again.”
I consider my self a true green I think we need to look closely at ratios of humans to the environment and that market forces alone don’t (aren’t) bringing us nearly close enough to sustainable and desirable urban design. I don’t consider the Greens a green party and Shaun Tan’s case is really an outing of a watermelon green. Act seems to be very much a pro growth pro development party: a property developers dream.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
“..I juxtaposed the concept of bleeding/blood loss with that of resurrection, in a deliberate act of oxymoronic temerity, in order to illustrate that it has been the exorcising of my Marxist demons, and the purging of Leftist ideology, from my mind and body which has allowed me to be cleansed and thus feel alive once again.â€?
yes..
and someone in another forum noted that sentence deserves a special ‘pretentious drivel’ award..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
August 24th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Urban economics: Effect of capping property taxes
[Excuse Me]
“These [initiatives] are examples of people frustrated with the consequences and trade-offs forced by economic prosperity,” said Randall Crane, a professor at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs. Proposition 13, the 1978 measure that limited increases in the state’s property taxes, “gives local governments no real discretion over their revenues except through land use planning toward commercial, sales-tax-generating development,” he said.
“It has really distorted planning for community building, jobs and livability,” said Stephanie Pincetl, a researcher at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment.
Indeed, Proposition 13 exacerbated the long-standing pressure on elected officials to make development their priority. The constant search for revenue, prosperity and jobs — in other words, growth — explains in large part why Southern California looks the way it does: sprawly, congested and polluted. It also explains, Pincetl said, the Los Angeles City Council’s initial reluctance to accept Griffith J. Griffith’s 1896 gift of Griffith Park: It would take too much land away from development.
http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/2008/08/local-growth-controls-case- of-santa.html
August 24th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
jh Says:
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 am
(quoting Shawn Tan):
” In fact, my alias ‘bledback2life’ was chosen to educidate my transition (some would say transmogrification) from the Greens and the Left to ACT and the realm of liberalism. I juxtaposed the concept of bleeding/blood loss with that of resurrection, in a deliberate act of oxymoronic temerity, in order to illustrate that it has been the exorcising of my Marxist demons, and the purging of Leftist ideology, from my mind and body which has allowed me to be cleansed and thus feel alive once again. â€?
that’s a classic example of a mystical, religious approach to politics. His argument appears not to be grounded in concrete political issues or logical reasoning. But then, I briefly believed ACT’s arguments in my teens, and I reckon anyone who hasn’t believed in supply-side economics before the age of 20 has no sense of imagination.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Essentially he’s saying his belief system collapsed and the catalyst was the crime wave against Asians.