Comments on: Are You A Coccyx? Report from 350.org Day of Action

By: Nancy Wentworth

Nancy Wentworth — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:14:31 +0000

For narcissistic hipsters, she’s a role model. For the rest of us, she makes us puke.

I read the entire 12 pages of oomments from the article in the San Francisco Chronicle and not one person mentioned that she did this for global warming awareness. Yeah, I would say there is a problem getting the message across.

By: John Monroe

John Monroe — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:14:35 +0000

One step at a time my girl….. one determined step at a time.

By: notfullofit

notfullofit — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:13:12 +0000

Here is but one comment from more than 100 from San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/19/DDA71A5453.DTL

Can they all be fools? What about putting 22 tons of CO2 into the environment to fly your group out to Tarawa just to take your picture? You flew out of Tarawa quickly to go to a premiere in NY of the “stupid movie” when you could have stayed and done some good for the people of Tarawa, but instead you just gave them your trash. oh and the carbon offsets company you gave the link to does not even exist any more anyway and almost of them are scams anyway.

“It seems to me that the people with no problems SEEM to have the most. The keyword is SEEM. This woman has it all, and has to “find” herself, because she has had no real hardship. As a 24 year old who has been to hell and back, I am just greatful to be alive and can see this without having to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in a boat trip to convince myself that I’m actually “living life to its fullest”.
Get a real life lady. You are still trying to “make it big” in this world by attracting all of this attention. You haven’t learned anything, and it’s really sad to me that you are trying create problems for yourself, and resolve them through some existential boat trip connecting yourself with the earth – because you’ve never truly experienced any hardship.
Now you’re writing books and making more heaps of money because your heart never was and never will be in the right spot. It’s still wrapped around money.
Good luck with all of that.”

That’s one quote of hundresds that responded, you’re not fooling anyone.

By: Roz

Roz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:19:04 +0000

Dear Anonymous/Annoyed

a) Please see http://rozsavage.com/environment/carbon-footprint/
b) I was quoting, not saying those words
c) What are YOU doing to help the cause?

Another quote for you:

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
– Dale Carnegie

By: Annnoyed

Annnoyed — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:54:54 +0000

Funny, you put out into the environment over 20 metric tons of CO2 to promote your book in America. You clearly lack ethics, integrity, and honesty, and now your bashing Americans after acting like one when it suited your needs. A leopard can’t change its spots….

By: Christopher Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:33:16 +0000

This morning on NPR they interviewed someone from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, and he suggested that the falling belief in human-caused global warming they reported is probably a rationalization mechanism employed because people want to do other things with higher priorities, but don’t want to feel guilty about it. Or words to that effect, if I understood him correctly.

This supports my comment of a few weeks ago that people have to make global warming a higher priority than national healthcare reform, federalization of education, etc., or the job won’t get done.

By: Christopher Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:02:35 +0000

I don’t believe that we can skip the step of getting people to understand the problem.

Belief must necessarily precede making something a priority.

According to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, 18% of Republicans believe in human-caused global warming, and 16% believe that Congress and the President should make dealing with it a top priority.

Meanwhile, 50% of Democrats believe in human-caused global warming, and 45% believe that Congress and the President should make dealing with it a top priority.

http://people-press.org/report/556/global-warming

http://people-press.org/report/485/economy-top-policy-priority

According to the second study, Americans placed global warming dead last of 20 issues in the survey.

Given the ratios above, we need at least 72% of Americans to believe in human-caused global warming for it to move from 20th place to 4th place in priorities. That’s an important position, because that’s above the priorities that soak up nearly all of our disposable income.

It was great for my son and me to meet you in San Francisco at Books Inc.!

By: Hostelling

Hostelling — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:22:12 +0000

Small efforts often lead to more efforts and sometimes greater efforts. And pretty soon, each of us is a part of the solution in our own way. And best of all, most of the time it’s fun.

In the course of planning this climate action I have experienced the power of taking action – like a pebble falling in water, the ripples never stop reaching out.

By: Roland

Roland — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:41:00 +0000

Hey Roz,
Every bit helps ! My wife and I recycle wherever we can and are pleasantly surprised that a lot of what we used to feel was garbage is actually recyclable. We do this every week. This is assisted by our local city government, that give us the opportunity, and means (containers) to accomplish re-cycling awareness. We are also very aware of our household use of energy and transportation needs/ways. It is just thinking a small bit beyond our thought process to remember how we use or if we really need to use this energy. It is a win win for everyone ( environmentally and economically ) .

By: antonio honrado

antonio honrado — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:19:17 +0000

Hi Roz.
Greetings From Florida!
Antonio