Shenku
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 Sunday, June 30, 2013
So... Why would anyone want to see a movie about the biggest Superhero oxymoron in history?
Seriously... He's a superhero who fights pollution, but his "kryptonite" is pollution... Worst. Superhero. Ever. Even Aquaman laughs at Captain Planet's ridiculous weakness...
With the way tree hugging environmental hippies inaccurately portray oil companies, coal companies, and pretty much any large industrial companies to push their "green" agendas(which in reality aren't about being green so much as just making them boat loads of cash that they take to the bank while they themselves pollute the world more than anyone else... Case and point, Al Gore...), the movie's probably going to focus a lot on how "People need electric cars!" and "Oil is bad! Coal is bad too!" and other such obviously politically motivated garbage...
The main villain's probably going to be an oil company like BP, and they're probably going to have an oil spill in the Golf(too soon? Hollywood doesn't think so! In fact, Hollywood doesn't think! What ever made you think they did....?  ) that causes the Captain to lose his powers only to have the Planeteers rescue him, hose him off, then watch as the bastage defies his supposed weakness by creating a massive tornado that pulls all the oil out of the ocean and surrounding himself with it as he flings millions of gallons of oil out into space.... I swear they had an episode of the cartoon with this same type of plot, but I wouldn't put it past Hollywood to reuse it because as I said, they don't think...
Don't get me wrong though, I'm all for a greener more pollution free world, but I'm against the agendas that most politicians push because most of them are only doing it to make themselves or their cronies rich as they give themselves government subsidies to cover all the costs while walking away with all of the profit... (Al Gore, again, is a great example of this. He constantly promotes "going green" to save the environment as he pretends to cry in front of congress{Seriously?! Why does anyone even listen to this loony?}, even though, according to a report a few years ago, he uses more electricity at his home in a month than half of America does in six months...)
Sorry to drag politics into this, but it's inevitable considering the skewed liberal perspective this movie will end up having if they actually make it, since Hollywood generally is left-leaning with regards to their political views, and movies such as this are going to be blatantly obvious about it.
All that aside, I enjoyed the original cartoon a little as a kid, but as I grew older, I realized just how stupidly and obviously politically driven the series was, plus how intellectually lacking Captain Planet himself really was when you considered he lost his powers to the very thing he was suppose to be fighting....
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Shenku
RiO Incarnate
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
TRL wrote : How delightfully american of you Shenku.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here.
Are you saying oil and coal isn't bad? That we shouldn't be looking for renewable ways of producing energy?
Or just that anyone lobbying for any of these kind of changes is just a blatant selfserving qet rich quick schemer, working for these big bad ecological companies. Who obviously made up this big conspiracy called global warming to fill their pockets. Oh and, illuminati.
Read my post again. If you had actually read this particular line:
Shenku wrote : Don't get me wrong though, I'm all for a greener more pollution free world, but I'm against the agendas that most politicians push because most of them are only doing it to make themselves or their cronies rich as they give themselves government subsidies to cover all the costs while walking away with all of the profit...
You would have seen that I did in fact say that I was for greener technology. Note the bolded part...
My point was that I'm against companies with "supposed green technology" getting funding simply because they're buddy-buddy with someone in Washington. And I say "most politicians" because a lot of the time, the subsidies and government supported hand outs for "green technology" are very often being given to companies that have the politicians bringing them up in the house or senate in their pockets(campaign funding is a good way to bribe these people, sadly...), or said politicians have a stake in those companies and would profit from it getting attention and free money...
That's not to say all green tech companies are bad or run by evil greedy people only in it for the free handouts, but you can't deny that such companies do indeed exist, as well as the corrupt Washington officials on both sides of the aisle who are in on these types of scams. My issue is more with the missapropriation of federal tax dollars on "pet projects" that produce no real worth-while results, or go bankrupt despite getting funding from us... Things like what happened with companies like Solyndra are perfect examples of what I take issue with.
If, however, you can show me a company with real promise of cleaner energy technology, I'm more than happy to let congress consider assisting them in succeeding (assuming they actually need it to get started) if they're truly as promising as they claim to be(provided they have some research and/or practical tests of their tech to back up their claims, and can provide it at practical and reasonable costs so that people are willing and more able to buy it.), but we can't just blindly throw money at every Tom Richard and Harry that comes along saying "I have a new clean energy solution! By the way on a completely unrelated note, here's a nicely sized campaign donation...  "
Oil and coal, while nice at the moment, are neither completely clean(counter to some coal company statements to the contrary. And let's face it, as regardless of how in compliance your car is with emission standards, it still pollutes the air every time you start that engine, because you're burning gas and releasing toxins through your exhaust...), nor infinite. Eventually, we're going to run out of both. Maybe not in our lifetimes, maybe not even within our grand children's lifetimes... But it's inevitable that it will run out at some point in the future, and we need to find a replacement energy source before that happens.
The problem is, the two most feasible solutions for energy we know about currently that could sustain us long-term are also the most difficult to produce cost effectively, or even in a consumer level. The first will never become commercially available as an energy source, simply because of fears of its use as a weapon, and that is nuclear energy. Let's be honest, no government anywhere in the world is ever going to let you drive around in a nuclear powered car. Just not happening... The second, is solar energy. It's probably the cleanest energy we could possibly use, and until the sun burns out it's going to continue to be a widely abundant energy source. Unfortunately, solar panels are hella expensive to make and horribly inefficient in terms of energy gathered versus the size of the individual panel. Sure, you could slap a ton of panels on your roof and power your home easily, but most people don't have the several hundred thousand dollars necessary to afford that... I sure as heck don't...
Really, our ongoing "energy crisis" will not end until we find a real renewable energy source that doesn't cost more to produce than consumers are willing to pay. Ethanol sounds like a great idea in theory, but producing gas from corn drives up food prices since now we're increasing demand on corn for not just food, but fuel as well... Wind energy can sometimes cost more energy just to keep the turbines turning than they actually generate, and we can't put a wind turbine on our car... Hydro-Electro plants(Dams) can work out pretty well, the Hoover Dam being a good example, but you can't exactly run an extension cable to your car while you're on the road. Sure, you could charge your car on those two while sitting idle at a charging station, or from a wall outlet at your home, but what about when the batteries are eventually pulled from the car and replaced? These big expensive batteries are filled with all types of toxic chemicals, so we can't just toss 'em in a landfill all the time, they'd still contribute to pollution... Not to mention some of these batteries have had some explosive issues with stability....
What we need is something better than the above options there. Something clean, renewable, cheap, powerful, yet safe. As far as I'm aware, scientists haven't found anything like that yet, so until then we're stuck with what we have. I kind of wish I knew more science, personally, because science(applied/theoretical physics, engineering, chemistry, exc.) is the one field that not enough people actually pursue in today's age sadly(Especially in America, unfortunately, since largely we're starting to fall behind education wise compared to some other parts of the world...)... We need more smart people if we're ever hoping to reach that Gene Roddenberry kind of utopian future with space ships and space exploration, and extra-planetary colonization, and alien diplomacy, and science, and junk....
In fact, getting down to the end of my post, I realize this whole thing is a long rambling jumble of pointless nonsense that realistically has little to do with the point of this thread, regardless of their relationships to one another... But hey, I'm an American, and Americans have freedom of speech, and by extension are often very opinionated, so I'mma going to exorcize my rights, dagnabbit! Anyways, for the rest of you who probably won't read any of what I just typed...:
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