The movie Fern Gully really pisses me off, its hypocritical BS

[MrFun]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Well there were.

Hey, if there was such people back then, I would vouch that there are still nuts out there who do today.

[techumseh]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Everything is propaganda.

No.

[Urban Ranger]

Smiley,

Morality is an euphemism for oppression

Nice

[Flip McWho]

26-09-2005 19:35

#32

Suffering from ads?

quote:
Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Everything is propaganda.


No.

Arguably yes. Why? Because almost everything pushes a point of some description.

[vomitus]

Originally posted by Vesayen


How would you feel if you were one of those lumberjacks :?

We can take from the enviroment, as long as we do so at permanently sustainable rates.

Personally, I would simply find another job.

[Odin]

Rainforest soils are piss-poor for farming, really. They are horribly leached of minerals and there is pretty much no true humus layer because the organic material is decomposed by microbes at an incredibly rapid rate because of the heat and humidity all year long.

[Odin]

Morality is an euphemism for oppression

What does a stupid post-modernist sound bite have to do with this thread?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It is a kids movie. I doubt complex economic and environmental arguments would go over well.

Ok kids, barney has to decide whether to spend a dollar on planting flowers, or on pruning his tree. Hes not sure what to do, so we're gonna help him - we're gonna give Mr. Barney a Cost Benefit Analysis.


This has potential.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by techumseh
No.

Okay, mathmatical expressions aren't, but that's pretty muh it. Propaganda is anything which aims to convince someone of something.

[Last Conformist]

Cutting down the amazonian rain forest is no doubt bad economics in the grand scheme of things, but it's hardly a threat to the future of the human species.

[chequita guevara]

It's a major source of oxygen.

[Az]

I think it was concensus that while it was a major source of oxygen, for the territory with the same size, the amount of CO2 reduction/O2 production would be larger with young, replanable crop woods. It's the lost biodiversity that troubles me.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
Cutting down the amazonian rain forest is no doubt bad economics in the grand scheme of things, but it's hardly a threat to the future of the human species.

That doesn't seem to be the point.

The point is we should have a different perspective on things, and economic activity should not be the only deciding factor.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It's a major source of oxygen.

I had a good time in a Biology class, our teacher had, by craft or chance placed 2 posters next to each other. one claimed that 75% of air came from the rain forests, the other claimed that the remaining 50% came from plankton. and apparently no one noticed it before that.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Az
I think it was concensus that while it was a major source of oxygen, for the territory with the same size, the amount of CO2 reduction/O2 production would be larger with young, replanable crop woods. It's the lost biodiversity that troubles me.

Except that soil isn't good for growing anything that isn't already there. Once the land is slashed and burned, it degrades very quickly and becomes desert-like in its in-ablity to grow much of anything. If you want to start a tropical tree farm, you have to do it with the jungle still intact.

And Whoha, I love your avatar!