Monday, December 29, 2008

Global Warming - Carlin Style (Made me think of Barry to the M)

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3 comments:

Unknown said...

i bet colbert and john stewart adored this guy when they were growing up. he seems very ironical. i dont believe he actually thinks that way about global warming.

December 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Mr. Self-Destruct said...

I think that he probably sternly believed that the earth is is is no real danger, and I think that he's right. The only thing(s) that are in any real danger are humans and the other species that are indirectly involved with our various industries. The earth isn't going anywhere, and it does have quite a track record for annihilating species out of of the blue. But, his main point, which he puts in a humorous way, asks how can we take care of an entire planet when we can't even take care of our selves? Good question in my opinion. Perhaps we shouldn't be trying to save the planet, but instead trying to save ourselves. Screw Earth Day, lets have a Save The Human Race Day, or something along those lines instead. RIP George Carlin.

December 29, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Gordon said...

I love George Carlin, but in this segment, I don't know if this guy is apathetic or not. Yes, we are small and the earth will be here when we are gone, and maybe it is bad to say that we should save the planet because people might not always bear in mind that the motivation of many– but not all environmentalists- is to save ourselves by saving the planet.. Yes natural disasters happen and we barely know how to take care of ourselves but if Carlin thinks that humans have no effect on the ozone layer or the troposphere or the ice caps or deforestation or overfishing or biodiversity loss, he is sorely mistaken. I will agree that most of the problems I just mentioned occur because we don't know how to take care of ourselves on a global scale, in a way that adequately recognizes the value of 'nature' beyond national borders. But to say we can have no part in adapting to present environmental circumstances is just plain wrong. This is why I tend to think Carlin is apathetic in this case. He oversimplifies the discourse of environmental issue through his bit on plastic or all of those other cosmic events to belittle the efforts of humans to live sustainably.. Perhaps the crowd was drunk or stupid or just suffering from environmental 'false consciousness' not to acknowledge the global complexities of the international system of production and consumption and to look at how that kind of 'progress' is affecting humans' ability to sustain life on this planet. Yes it is hard to affect change but it's worse to tell people there is nothing we can do. Then again, there is nothing stopping you from taking the easy way out due to a lack of understanding and apathy

December 29, 2008 at 6:43 PM

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