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Website Wednesday
Short and sweet (I hope) today, because my day is going to get wonky in a few hours.
Global warming, climate change, what ever you want to call it, is here. The only thing left debatable is if other countries in the world (because obviously the US is content to allow its energy guzzling economy to drive it over the cliff) can do enough, and do it fast enough, to give us a few more lifetimes of enjoyable living as a species.
The movie, Soylent Green, (still available at times on TCM) is relentless in its presentation of an ugly, gray, futuristic world of little food, overpopulation and welcomed state-assisted suicides. Edward G. Robinson takes this way out and Charlton Heston is with him at the end. What makes this scene relevant is that suicides are allowed the choice of a final movie and we watch as Robinson and Heston view magnificent scenes from nature. Heston says: I never knew it was like that.
Unfortunately, this could be the line our children/grandchildren may have to learn.
So my pick for this Wednesday is the finalists in the 2012 National Geographics Annual Traveler Photo Contest. (You can see the link is to The Atlantic and not NG. That's because NG has a habit of closing down their sites so the link goes dead fast. I'm hoping The Atlantic doesn't do this.)
It's a good chance to see some amazing scenes from around the world. Scenes which may cease to exist in the not-too-distant future. Enjoy.
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