NEWS: Hey Leo, Greenpeace Hates Your Movie

preach it!

eventually people like you will be killed by my relentless cyborg children.

this is such a joke.

anyone who's ever seen a clear-cut knows there are HUGE piles of rotting, economically "useless" branches and debris they either let rot or, more often, burn with gasoline, when they're done harvesting.

seriously. somehow preventing forest fires is more important than preserving a mature forest and the myriad of interdependent systems within it? suuure.

not to mention the ludicrousness of the fact that he's proposing that we actively disrupt yet another natural part of forest life (i mean jesus, fires are how underbrush gets cleared. that's how forests work) and throw the whole thing even further out of balance. i feel like i'm taking crazy pills here.

Anyone here have an education in ecology or forestry or biology or climatology or anything of that nature?

As a forester myself, I don't care much for clearcutting..thank goodness that the most valuable trees at least in the US are shade tolerant trees that must be harvested in thinnings or shelterwood cuts or group selection and if valuable enough can be harvested by air or by a system of cables. More demand for forest products does allow for more forest but it also is important to preserve untouched corridors. You can have both. Ask New Zealand about its pine plantations and parks. My point is this isn't some black and white subject. As for the wildfires, the USDA Forest Service has and will continue to make blunders and contributes very little to the timber industry anyway (or the environment)...except for selling the stuff way under value and wasting tax dollars. I do doubt that Leo will ever really contribute anything meaningful.

I'm not exactly sure what kind of environmentalist makes statements that fail to consider the massive damage that deforestation does to the various species that populate the forests. One that only cares about human survival I guess?
I would agree that deforestation and reforestation can work, but the way that guy makes his statements ignores the reality that deforestation is more than just getting rid of trees. Perhaps, he just doesn't give a shit about biodiversity?

Yes! How silly of me! Without realizing it or even arguing it, I was advocating microchip implants! I really am far more genius than even I give myself credit for!

Trees, yes. Oh yeah, and the hundreds of millions of dollars it would save the United States every year, the unheralded blow it would deal to counterfeiters, the fact that a great portion of the population already use cards over paper money, the fact that cards are much easier to organize and replace should the need arise, etc...

You don't want the government to steal information? Put the cards and accounts in private banks, completely free of any government control other than that which exists currently. However, when need be, the government can deposit money directly into the account - which, by the way, it already does - in the case of Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, tax returns, etc. However, the majority of the transactions will remain, as they always have been, private - personal transactions, payments, paychecks.

Additionally:

A) people already have all but phased out photo development - it's called the digital camera. And with it, memory has all but ceased to be! Just as Plato feared with the development of literature! Noooooo! Damn you Plato! Damn you!
B) you can print memories? Gee, all along I thought they existed inside your brain. Oh right! Duh! It must all be part of that microchip idea I pitched earlier. of course! Silly me!

Unlike An Inconvenient Truth, which dealt primarily with the facts of global warming and the lack of attention paid to it, The 11th Hour, near as I can tell, deals a great deal with things we as individuals can do to stop global warming, by presenting several examples of what other individual citizens have done. In that way, it is meaningful and helpful on the personal level, which AIT spent very little time on.

PS, I completely agree with you that a College Degree automatically entitles you with boundless intellect and immediate superiority over all other opinions that ever get presented, no matter how reasonable and logical they may be.

It will not be long before oil becomes so scarce or expensive to produce that our whole American Dream way of life, as exemplified by your sense of entitlement to all the comforts and preferences we have become accustomed to, will undergo a precipitous collapse. When that happens, electricity and meat may become luxuries only the wealthy can afford - that is, before they become impractical to obtain for even the most privileged classes.

I suggest reading The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. We're all in for a rough ride over the next few decades/centuries, whether we like it or not, because we've waited too long to correct the problems we've created and to build alternatives.

Just don't say you weren't warned.

Water too. Fucking Southwest.

Hey folks, if you want to do something, get out there and plant your own trees. You don't need a 3rd world slave labor company like Dell to do it for you, do you?

I would like to say that my favorite Leonardo movie is Gangs of New York. This one could be good or just silly like Titanic.

From what I have read, it is a toss up. Occasionally there are effective methods to deal with invasive species and the rest of the time it is a disaster. In particular with smaller plants and insects.

Still, the fact remains habitat destruction is often times a huge, huge factor in the decline of various species.

Pfft. That's nothing.

When I got my new laptop, I planted my old laptop in the forest.

Dr. Patrick Moore went on to promote shooting deer:

Sorry, but I am still a fan of pergo.

I think we need to get back to the real problem that was mentioned earlier. Trees grow to slowly for us, so we need to fix that. How do we fix this you ask? Why we geneticly(sp?) engineer trees to grow faster duh. I want a full size redwood in 2 years not 1,000!