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Nature doesn’t need people
Harrison Ford is a man who has the knack of being in the right place at the right time. And if he didn’t, he’d likely now be a retired carpenter who worked doing odd in and around Los Angeles.
Maybe he’d be living on a pension in one of those boardwalked coastal towns up and down California Highway 1 — but some of those are at risk now from rising sea levels. Or maybe Ford would have moved back to his home city of Chicago — though the storms hitting the United States Midwest are very severe, the climate variances there are becoming very extreme.
But because Ford was the right man in the right place at the right time, the part-time actor and whole-time casual carpenter happened to be working on the set in 1973 of what would become a cult classic, American Graffiti. They were stuck and needed a stand in. He was 31 then, and it took another four years of sawing two-by-fours and pounding nails before he landed the role that introduced him to global audiences as Han Solo in the Star Wars.
Now, aged 76, Ford has an extensive ranch in Wyoming, flies planes and helicopters as a hobby, has houses around the world — all the trappings one would expect from an actor who was the most bankable of Hollywood A-listers, the bullwhip-cracking archeologist hero Indiana Jones, and the star of so many blockbuster hits it’s just not funny.
But Ford is determined that he won’t just be remembered for the roles on the big screen. He was in Dubai last week, attending the World Government Summit, and delivering a strong and moving warning to the 4,000 delegates, heads of state, Nobel laureates and leaders of business corporations and international organisations on the need for urgent and sustainable action on climate change.
‘Roll up our sleeves’
“Nature doesn’t need people, people need nature,” was one of the key lines delivered with all the growl only he could muster. “We need to roll up our sleeves and work together for its protection.”
How very true indeed.
And when you’re as comfortable in your skin as Ford is, there’s nothing to fear in speaking out, even against the president of his own country.
“Around the world, elements of leadership — including in my own country — to preserve their state and the status quo, deny or denigrate science,” he said. “They are on the wrong side of history.”
Ford said the Earth’s temperature has risen by 40 per cent, accelerating climate change beyond our predictions, which, given that 75 per cent of the world’s largest cities are on a coastline — including Dubai — could lead to devastating effects.
“As our oceans warm, glacier ice melt and expansion drive sea levels higher, endangering these cities, threatening their population and their economies,” he added.
I’m sure he knows a thing or two around sea levels — after all, he did receive a $25 million (Dh91.95 million) pay cheque for his role as the Soviet submarine commander of the ill-fated K-19: The Widowmaker.
While oceans cover 71 per cent of the planet, the impact of rising temperatures would wipe out many island populations, Ford warned. The world will also experience more violent weather and unpredictable weather patterns as global warming rates increase, he said.
“We are faced with, what I believe, is the greatest moral crisis of our time. That those least responsible for nature’s destruction will suffer the greatest consequences.
“All of us whether rich or poor, powerful or powerless will suffer the effects of climate change and ecosystem destruction,” he added, while calling on humanity to work together and develop practical strategies by investing more in science and adopting behaviours that protect the climate.
Scarred chin
There’s an honesty about Ford that seems genuine. His smile is lopsided and his leading man looks are less than perfect — his chin is famously scarred, the result of a car crash when he was 21. Still, it didn’t deter People Magazine from naming him as the World’s Sexiest Man in 1998. His reaction? “I never feel sexy,” he said. “I’ve got a completely unbalanced, irregular face, and a nose that’s been broken three or four times. One eye is higher than the other. When people photograph me, they have to kind of twist the lights around me to make me look like a movie actor.”
His work on the big screen spans six decades and, in US cinemas alone, he movies have grossed more than $4.7 billion — only Samuel L. Jackson has grossed more, at $5.7 billion.
He’s married now to actor Calista Flockhart, and has two sons from his first marriage to Mary Marquardt in 1964. That ended in divorce in 1979.
Ford went on to marry screenwriter Melissa Mathison, who penned ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, in 1983. After 17 years, another son and a daughter, they divorced in 2001 resulting in one of the biggest settlements then in Hollywood history — worth some $70 million.
He’s always been a lover of nature too, even if Indiana Jones hates snakes. The American Museum of Natural History in New York went so far as to name a spider after him — calponia harisonfordi — in thanks for narrating a nature documentary. It’s a topic that gives him some of his best lines.
25 Comments on "Nature doesn’t need people"
Cloggie on Sat, 16th Feb 2019 12:45 am
Saving nature, not easy with such a family name.
Davy on Sat, 16th Feb 2019 4:56 am
Well, what kind of reference article is that? A whole lot of article that says nothing much about climate change. I will say if I won the lottery I would own a cattle farm in Jackson Hole. I have been there a few times and love it.
Meh Max on Sat, 16th Feb 2019 10:35 am
Ya, sorta poitnless article. Harrison Ford jetting around the globe laying guilt trips on the less fortunate who are often doing what they do in service to the same giant multinationals that bankroll Conservation International, the NGO employing Mr. Ford’s charms. Greenwashing at its finest.
makati1 on Sat, 16th Feb 2019 4:38 pm
Perhaps he is a good person to educate on climate change? After all he is known by most of the planet. Whether he is a bit hypocritical because he uses a jet to get to speaking destinations, does not count. Most Americans are hypocrites. It is part of their self-professed “exceptionalism” disease, the consequences of which are coming home to roost.
Ford will not change anything, but he might help to offset the misinformation promoted by the Fossil Fuel industry, or pure ignorance of science and biology. Humans may not last another century. Unfortunately, we are taking the rest of the ecosystem down with us to the tune of 200 species per day. Oh well, life is sure interesting. Buckle Up!
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 4:24 am
Carrie Fisher:
“You’ll receive more money than
you can ever imagine”.
Harrison Ford:
“I don’t think so, I can imagine quite a lot”.
Cloggie on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 4:30 am
Whether he is a bit hypocritical because he uses a jet to get to speaking destinations, does not count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtOkhpDBulo
He still does?
makati1 on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 4:57 am
Great line from a great movie, Go speed! ^_^
Davy on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 6:17 am
Fake green talks the talk but doesn’t walk it. Many wealthy liberals are like this. They cry crocodile tears about climate change as they suck up that affluence Kool-Aid. AOC and her sunrise movement is more of this same fake green liberal shit. This fake green is still better than a denier so it is a beginning.
I preach real green and live it. It is apologetic because you practice real green relatively per your life path and place in the world. It is about sacrifice for the planet and the web of life relatively. The notion of relatively is important because it allows change otherwise people will feel overwhelmed with the change. The needed behavior to truly eliminate destructive status quo behavior doesn’t happen and the net result is no change. There is also the not in my back yard of change. Others need to change before I will. This is illegitimate because it lacks compassion for the planet. Real green is about baby steps in the right direction that have staying power instead of just a passing fad.
It is about with a lower foot print that is lower in material affluence in regards to quantity but not necessarily quality. Don’t hate material things but instead choose ones that have a future and will last. Embrace the old ways that are value tested by time but also incorporate modern ways and knowledge that was hard won through a status quo that is wrecking the planet. Real green is also about investing in renewables and a way of life with a future that embraces realistic efficiency and valuable conservation efforts.
Real green still has a foot print because it acknowledges the status quo must be used to leave it. It realizes there is no exiting the Anthropocene. We are trapped in a dirty nest of lies. Real green is about more spiritual affluence and resulting higher quality of life on a sinking ship. It is about wisdom and meaning that come with humility and stoic living. If you are going to gather natural solar energy and harvest the results of solar in the plant and animal world you are going to have to live with less. Tech is not the answer but it is part of the solution to getting to the answer. The answer is less but more meaning.
This wisdom acknowledges the world is in decline on all levels. It acknowledges overshoot and unsustainability. It acknowledges social injustice and unfairness of opportunity but it realizes there is little that can be done in late stage capitalism and corrupted liberal democracy so it stays bellow the radar and yields to higher forces. This is the basis of localism and community. Real green could give a shit about religion and points to real green first higher power second not as a value judgement but as the path to redemption. Destroying the planet is evil plain and simple. You get to your higher power by respecting the planet and web of life.
You apply real green locally, seasonally, and embrace intermittency. You shun discretionary thrills and on demand pleasures. You do this relatively so you don’t alienate your significant others. If you are truly blessed with real green then you go off the grid and out of the status quo. A few can do this. I wish I could. Fake green is still better than the alternative because the first hurdle is admitting there is a problem. Then the various steps of personal and planetary healing can then be taken. Real green is about taking steps towards healing a planet that is dying. It is about changing what can be change and accepting what can’t be changed.
Cloggie on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 7:36 am
Morning newspapers:
Trump declares German cars as a US “security risk”
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/handelsstreit-mit-den-usa-autobranche-kritisiert-drohende-zoelle-a-1253648.html
Nippon Abe proposes Trump for Nobel Peace Price (on US request)
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/donald-trump-shinzo-abe-soll-us-praesident-fuer-friedensnobelpreis-vorgeschlagen-haben-a-1253659.html
Cloggie on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 7:38 am
More morning newspapers:
Leftist der Spiegel reporting about “Ligue du LOL”, a group of leftists journalists that engages in (sexual) mobbing of political enemies. France, a country growing nuts:
http://www.spiegel.de/plus/ligue-du-lol-in-frankreich-die-absicht-war-mich-zu-demuetigen-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000162407714
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligue_du_LOL
Yellow Vests week #14, growing in strength again:
http://www.spiegel.de/video/frankreich-erneut-krawalle-bei-gelbwesten-protest-video-99025046.html
The little deplorable white guy is hitting back!
Der Spiegel admits: criminal Muslim gangs are taking over the big German cities (compare Rotherham-UK):
http://www.spiegel.de/plus/so-herrschen-clans-in-deutschland-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000162407585
Nothing that can’t be solved with an “SA 2.0.”
American Empire/Hedonism is over, fighting for survival is next… and is so much more interesting than Black Friday!
Cloggie on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 7:44 am
Can’t post this in one post (memory hole effect), hence in three parts:
Foreclosure British air company Flybmi (wtf “Fly-bmi”, airliner for fat people?). Blames Brexit:
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/flybmi-in-brexit-schwierigkeiten-britische-fluggesellschaft-ist-insolvent-a-1253655.html
Karl Marx bust violated:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/london-karl-marx-grabstaette-erneut-geschaendet-a-1253651.html
Painted slogan: “Commemoration for the Bolshevik Holocaust (1917-1953)”
Note: 1917-1953 was the Jewish period of communism…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSAB5OPkwQ
…until Stalin openly declared war on them. According to an urban myth (that may or may not be true), Stalin was killed by his jewish doctors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot
Americans may be on the verge of a similar 1917-1953 period, although they could have Eurasia standing by to intervene.
Anyway, after the death of Stalin, the Russian army began to throw out the jews and most ended up in Israel or the US. More than half of the present day Israelis are of Russian descent, meaning Khazars (Talmud Turks, not Hebrews). Now even the Israelis are beginning to realize who they are:
https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Jewish-People-Shlomo-Sand-ebook/dp/B00G2DO15E/ref=sr_1_1
Most Israelis are f* Turks!!! LOLOLOL
clow on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 9:13 am
The elite are so scumbggish, that as the oil runs out they will start WWII to kill a few billion people so they can continue to fly their private jets. Judgment days is copming for the european elite. Meteors will clean up europe of the evil elite scummers
kabang on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 9:30 am
Arab nations are not cutting productions.
no
They are running out of oil
When european bad people realize this they will start a world war to kill 3 billion people to decrease demand for oil.
They lost AMERICAS HIDDEN OIL RESOURCES thanks to Donald Tru,p
pause for a
3 cheers for donald
Ok
start war kill 3 billion, invent global warming to force countries to stop using their oil they need for leer jets.
then
volcanoes everywhere, to stop the war.
volcanoes are the only natural disaster that will prevent drones from operation.
so
volcanoes for 5 months
no sun
no rain
no airplanes
no food
no water
no nothing
BUY LED HEADLAMPS NOW
5 months darkness.
america will have oil though expensive due to donald Trump
3 cheers for donald.
yay
get LED headlamps and AA batteries to last 5 months.
hurry.
Cloggie on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 12:27 pm
Floating solar parks, good solution for overcrowded countries:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2019/02/17/eu-largest-floating-solar-park-in-the-netherlands/
D. Trump Dito-Head on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 2:34 pm
Behold the super-intelligence of the prototypical Donald Trump dito-head and please sign me up now.
“3 cheers for donald
Ok
start war kill 3 billion, invent global warming to force countries to stop using their oil they need for leer jets.
then
volcanoes everywhere, to stop the war.
volcanoes are the only natural disaster that will prevent drones from operation.”
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 17th Feb 2019 7:04 pm
B-b-b-but Mr. Clogster,
What if the electrical wires short out,
in all that water ?
Oops !
Might get ugly when it’s freezing weather.
Instead, I recommend we revert to
a traditional agrarian society.
We can be growing our own crops, and at night gather around the community tire-fire.
Yo Mr. Makita !! Glad 2 hear that U like
the original Star Wars movies!
Yup, sure as death & taxes, aren’t
the original first 3 Star Wars, the
best ones?
The next 6 or so have basically stank.
Amazing example, of grotesque bureaucratic
dysfunction & breakdown.
The spectacular decline of the Star Wars
movies, are proof that humans cannot solve
simple problems.
Cloggie on Mon, 18th Feb 2019 2:14 am
Go Speed, the solution has already been worked out. They are planning on installing a giant 3-prong wall socket in geo-synchronous orbit above the floating solar panel platform array.
The power that flows up the extension cord to orbit from the ground, will be stored temporarily, in concrete batteries next to the orbiting wall socket. The batteries will, in turn, be hooked up to a microwave transmitter that will then take the power from the battery, and beam it to receiving station located in a desert somewhere. We cant build it in Nederlialrland, because all the land is currently being used to grow tulips, and the Tulip lobby is very powerful here and cannot be reasoned with, or bribed even. They have their heads buried in the 16th, or 20th century. One or the other.
Moving on, once the power is safely in the desert, probably somewhere in the Sahara, it will be re-transmitted to another microwave station, probably somewhere in Spain or something. Once the microwaves are converted back in electricity via an incredibly convoluted series of steps where energy is lost at every point along the way, it will then be sent to the grid, and from there, sent 1000s of KMs to my bedroom, where it will power the crummy laptop I use to post my brilliant and inspired commentary at the one place on the internet I wont be banned from, all day long. Every day.
I had a link for you Go Speed, but I cannot find it at the moment. I will post it for you later. Its says it be ready by 2030, or, failing that, some other day, or year.
makati1 on Mon, 18th Feb 2019 3:12 am
Go Speed, You are correct. The first three were great. The next three were ok. I have not watched any after that as they are just “for $$$” clones. I have the first six on DVDs and watch them every several years. It seems originality has died in the film industry.
Cloggie on Mon, 18th Feb 2019 3:24 am
“Go Speed, the solution has already been worked out. They are planning on installing a giant 3-prong wall socket in geo-synchronous orbit above the floating solar panel platform array.”
I didn’t write that.
Outcast_Searcher on Mon, 18th Feb 2019 3:24 am
Well, I like a lot of Harrison Ford’s work, especially in the Blade Runner movies.
But, given that the universe is roughly 13.7+ billion years old, the earth is roughly 4.5+ billion years old, and humans have been around for roughly 2 to 6 million years — thanks for stating the blindingly obvious.
It’s easy to point out the problem — a lot tougher to get people to agree that it even IS a problem, and even tougher to get them to work together to fix it, since fixing it likely involves lots of sacrifice and that’s rather inconvenient to lifestyle plans.
Cloggie on Mon, 18th Feb 2019 5:37 am
Cloggie on Mon, 18th Feb 2019 3:24 am
I didn’t write that.
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dumb fucks on peak oil on Tue, 19th Feb 2019 9:18 pm
there is no global warming. Global warming would be good. You are in an ice age. The ice age is getting colder. You will find out soon. Oh wait. No you wont. this is comment section is full of mental ill fruitcakes
Sissyfuss on Tue, 19th Feb 2019 10:18 pm
Please don’t feed the trolls.
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