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Author Topic: An Inconvenient Truth comes in paper case Edwin Sheldon Film Handler Posts: 95 From: Mobile, AL, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 11-19-2006 12:08 AM                     The case is made of recycled paper. Too bad they didn't use eco-friendly cyan soundtracks on the 35mm prints.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 11-22-2006 08:51 AM                    Or they could have done the environment a real favor and not made the movie at all.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 11-22-2006 10:22 AM                     Walmart has packaged this with a florescent bulb.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-22-2006 12:54 PM                        From our warehouse, we recieved a promotional item for this film. It's postcard-sized "seed paper." It looks like very pulpy recycled paper, but instead of pulp it has seeds pressed into it - you soak the paper for a couple of hours in water, then bury it, and keep it moist. And soon you have a festive garden.  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 11-22-2006 01:27 PM                     I'm surprised they haven't included a pack of rolling papers for the hippies who will buy this dvd.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 11-22-2006 02:33 PM                    Mike... That sounds fun. Did you try it?  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-22-2006 03:39 PM                     I wonder what it grows? (See Danny's post above.)  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 11-23-2006 10:53 AM                        I dunno, they may be a lot less tense people in the world. Geez, maybe that's a good idea for the remainder of my 2 weeks at the theatre. Naw, I'll stick to the bottle, less trouble with that.  |  IP: Logged Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 11-25-2006 12:11 AM                     Personally I"m thankful this film was made, 18 years ago I spent a day with a canadian scientest called David Suzuki, who pretty much covered the topic simalarly to Al Gore in 2006, The major difference was mine was one on one situation. quote "Yes the climate has been changing for hundreds of millions of years. this is not the issue, Its the rate of change thats the problem, Traditionally forrests do move, seeds grow where the conditions are right and die where conditions are no longer favorable. Unfortunatly now trees are going to pull up there roots and learn how to walk to keep up with climate change!!!!!" The frog dies ie is boiled to death (no one saves him). Now I am afraid that my 3 1/2 year old son will be boiled to death some time in his future [ 11-25-2006, 12:50 AM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 11-25-2006 12:58 AM                     The perfect solution for global warming. Build huge CO2 scubbers to take it out of our atmosphere and then transport it to Mars and dump it so it can start warming the planet to make it suitable for future generations. I dont know how to do it but surely someone will figure it out. I just watched it on DVD today, from netflix. Better than I was expecting. One thing though, I am so tired of them blaming what happened to New Orleans on global warming. The devestation of N.O. was a MAN MADE disaster. If Katrina would have hit anywhere else it would have been just another hurricane. What do you expect when you have a city below sea level? My other question is this. IF the damage is done and in 60 years we enter another ice age due to the desalinization of the oceans, wouldn't we want all the extra greenhouse gasses in the air to help prevent a runaway freeze? For those who don't know a runaway freeze is where so much of the earth's surface gets covered in ice that it reflects too much heat back into space and results in the planet getting colder and becoming completely covered in ice. It happened about 600mya and the only way out of it is through "global warming." Of course the last time it took about 10million years for enough co2 to build up in the atmosphere to begin the thaw. Im no scientist of course so don't take anything I say seriously, ever.  |  IP: Logged Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 11-25-2006 07:59 PM                     Ok, sorry if my earlier comments crossed the line It wasn't ment to offend, as for American Politics well I have no idea, Technically my ruler or leader is the Queen of another country (who never visits!). I hope that my 3 1/2 year old son will live a full life and that his children will live a quality of life similar to ours, unfortunatly after witnessing 18 years of inaction, time is running out, current estimates indicate that to fix the problem will now cost 1% of GDP worldwide, this huge figure will continue to go up as inaction continues. I find this frustrating, I believe that mankind can do anything it sets its mind to.  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 11-26-2006 12:23 AM                        quote: Cameron Glendinning Technically my ruler or leader is the Queen of another country You do have a Prime Minister or something, right? That'd be your leader, since the "queen" doesn't even truely run her own country, more like the Parliment does, and the Prime Minister. I'd point out that scientists seem split on the whole global warming issue. Some say we're causeing it, some say it's simply the earth coming out of the last ice age. Not the BIG ice age, but a smaller one. Also, from what I've read, just one volcanic erupiton produces more greenhouse and ozone depleting gases than everything man has so far. Anyhow, all of this global warming talk is bound to spring up political talk, so we either need to ask the mods to allow it, or evlolve the topic away from it. Personally, on a side note, I'd like to see us colonize Mars during my life, but I doubt it'll happen.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-26-2006 01:28 AM                     *sigh*  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 11-26-2006 10:17 AM                     quote: Charles Greenlee all of this global warming talk is bound to spring up political talk Gee, ya think? I thought this was supposed to be a discussion about the DVD, not amateur hour at the I Took Tenth Grade Earth Science Club.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 11-26-2006 12:05 PM                     I happened to take 10th grade science twice. I got a C the second time. Sure, this is a discussion about the DVD. But guess what? The movie is on the DVD and the movie is about global warming. Are you suggesting that the discussion of science be banned on here? I am not going to refrain from asking a scientific question out of the fear that some idiot will turn it into a political discussion. You see Chad, intelligent people ask questions. Intelligent people are not always smart, but they look at something and ask questions about what they don't understand.  |  IP: Logged

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