Lite Entertainment with Climate Change

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Lite Entertainment with Climate Change

To end the first part of this blogging series with a light note, I went around the world in search of the most funniest, prettiest, music, joke, comics, drawings - anything to put a smile on the serious and worried expression people are putting these days when they discuss climate change, let alone COP15, as that is turning out to be a nightmare.

What intrigues me is why all these decision makers and leaders are only now coming out to remind the ‘us’ how bad it will be if the deal is not done.

First, aren’t these people in the position where they are today so they could get things done? What is the point of giving a warning to the public when actually those whom they should be talking with are their counterparts? And if this is some diplomatic manoeuvre to point fingers with self censorship, then it best to ‘name and shame’ so that at least the public could do something about it…

Second if December does not workout, well why not try again in February after the New Year; certainly it is worth trying again. We even give a doomed relationship a second chance, shouldn’t the future of mankind deserve at least that much?  Who knows, after the ‘giving season’ and many bold New Year resolutions, the mood might swing for dealing with the deal….

 Back to the entertainment part,

Well you see, I didn’t see the film the “the Inconvenient Truth”, I was fortunate enough to have seen other equally powerful documentaries ex. Al GORE. So I didn’t know the song in the film until my search.  When I heard it, I thought if there would a CD with the best of CLIMATECHANGE compilation, surely this one would be in it for historic reasons. But as inconveniently, the Universal Studios makes it impossible to embed the video- this for a call-to-arms song! Surely that is not inspirational - telling people to pay for a song that should fire them up to give up a lot of conveniences.

How can we convince, millions of emerging middleclass with serious disposible income to spend and travel for the first time in their history, that they have to sober up their lifestyle for the mess the West created in the first place when even the song and film that epitomize the struggle for finding solutions to climate change can't be spread around for free?

I am not blaming anyone in particular, just highlighting the inconvenient reality… and incase you want to sing real hard during the climate top, well, beware of the new Danish 'trouble maker legislation' in the making!

But here the collection nonetheless ... ENJOY!

                    

                           

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