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02
Mar

Matt Damon Wants SeaWorld Shut Down

By Holly Won't 32 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Environmentalists, Movie Stars and PETA

[Matt] Damon has now voiced his shock at the trainer’s “horrible” death, insisting all marine mammal parks like SeaWorld should be “shut down” altogether.

He tells US news show Entertainment Tonight, “I think they should just shut them all down. I’ve never been a fan of places like that.”

So says marine biologist actor Matt Damon in the aftermath of the killing of a trainer at SeaWorld, a tragedy PETA also says is proof that sea creatures should be set free.

I guess he should have thought about that before signing on for top billing in Happy Feet 2, a children’s movie about tap-dancing penguins that has hugely increased the popularity of penguin exhibits at “places like that” the world over.

Nevermind that SeaWorld funds some of the most extensive and important conservation work to protect penguins and the like, reinforcing the environmental message of movies like Happy Feet.

In other words, Matt Damon: PETA doesn’t look too good on you.

27
Feb

Yurt-Dwelling Gold Medalist Lives Off the Grid, but Loves Her Flowers (Imported)

By Audrey Skepburn 29 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Environmentalists, Foodies, PETA and Sports Figures

Olympic Gold and Silver medalist and PETA poster child Hannah Teter must think flowers grow everywhere, year round. From People:

“I went out last week and bought $200 worth of flowers and put them in my room by my bed – roses, lilies and lilacs,” the earthy Teter, 23, tells PEOPLE. “When you surround yourself with nature, it’s really powerful. Everything makes a difference.”  She doesn’t just surround herself with it, Teter reveals she’s a vegetarian and puts the best stuff in her bod.”

Ms. Teter is also apparently going “off grid” and moving into a yurt.  I’m sorry, I need to repeat that. Ms. Teter plans on moving into a yurt.

From People:

“In addition to eating healthy, Teter wants to live greener overall, too. “I’m moving into a yurt in the woods near my parents’ home in Vermont,” she says about inhabiting a portable tent-like dwelling.”

For all her love of getting comfy with nature and loving on the environment, what part of buying $200 of flowers make her green? It’s February.  Roses grow from late spring to late fall, but mostly mid-summer. Lilies grow from from mid-June to August. Lilacs grow from mid-spring to early summer. In February, despite how not cold Vancouver is, you still have to get roses, lilies, and lilacs from somewhere.

Here are two possibilities:

  1. Hannah is buying them from some super fancy climate-controlled greenhouse in Vancouver that uses electricity and fossil fuels to keep flowers growing abnormally throughout the winter.
  2. Those flowers were imported, traveling on massive container ships from some far off land, burning fossil fuel along the way. Which I have no problem with. But Yurt-girl might. Continue reading ‘Yurt-Dwelling Gold Medalist Lives Off the Grid, but Loves Her Flowers (Imported)’
27
Feb

Harrison Ford Destroys the Death Star Earth

By Pastafarian 12 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Environmentalists and Movie Stars

Sometime back, I took a lot of heat and got called a lot of names for making fun of Harrison Ford’s little environmental chest waxing protest.

All right — I made most of that up. The name calling never really happened.  I bet you clicked on it though.  Loser.

Now Han Solo is in a little trouble with meddling hippie types because he’s doing things that go against his support of environmental friendliness stuff.

Here are some examples from his IMDB page.

Honored for his work with the environment, Ford was asked to name a new breed of butterfly. He named it after his daughter, Georgia.

That’s stupid.

Continue reading ‘Harrison Ford Destroys the Death Star Earth’

22
Feb

Ultrarich Fashion Designer Condemns Consumerist Culture

By Holly Won't 22 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Bad Boys & Girls, Businesses, Environmentalists, Fashionistas and Television Stars

Vivienne Westwood, the grande dame of punk who has made gobs and gobs of money by designing everything from costumes for the Sex Pistols to Carrie Bradshaw’s $9,875 wedding dress in the Sex and the City movie, apparently has decided to piss off the very people who enable her to continue designing: her customers.

She had this to say following her runway show at London Fashion Week yesterday:

“Stop all this consumerism,” said Westwood, the former high priestess of punk who has increasingly used her catwalk shows to spotlight her concern about climate change.

“I just tell people, stop buying clothes. Why not protect this gift of life while we have it? I don’t take the attitude that destruction is inevitable. Some of us would like to stop that and help people survive,” she said.

I guess that makes sense. I mean, by hiring Pamela Anderson to be the busted face of her advertising campaign, Westwood essentially told everyone to stop buying her clothes. Mission accomplished.

19
Feb

Miley Cyrus’s Tricky Trade-In

By Sarah Jessica Snarker 20 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Entertainment, Environmentalists, Movie Stars, Musicians, Teen Idols and Television Stars

I’ve got to hand it to Miley. If you’re going trade your petrol-sipping Prius for a big, beautiful, burly SUV, it’s a pretty brilliant move to blame the decision on the one critter in the Cyrus family who is beyond all reproach: the dog. Yeah, apparently he’s getting too big for the petite Prius.

What a pity.

Of course, Miss “Eco-Anthem” Cyrus didn’t completely give up on saving the planet with her new purchase. Her new mega-Mercedes is, after all, a hybrid. One that gets about half the gas mileage of her puny Prius, and only about 5 mpg more than that Porsche Cayenne she ditched back in 2008 in favor of the holier-than-thou hybrid. But really, who’s counting?

No one. It’s a hybrid, duh! Hybrids are like, totally awesome for the planet!

Continue reading ‘Miley Cyrus’s Tricky Trade-In’

15
Feb

Save the Mink! (But Slaughter the Olympic Figure Skaters)

By Audrey Skepburn 20 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Crazy People, Environmentalists, Fashionistas, PETA and Sports Figures

The Winter Olympics are finally kicking up some chilly powder in Vancouver. This means fame-whoring opportunists like PETA and other assorted kooks get to enter stage right and claim their five minutes of fame, while threatening to assault the athletes. What?!

Cats and dogs and mongooses (mongeese?) should never be threatened with slaughter, but it’s open season on Olympic skaters — who, you have to admit, are sort of like puppies. (Oh my, a hunting joke! Someone call the ASPCA!)

American figure skater Johnny Weird Weir, the all-around “just a little bit odd” guy (Did I mention male figure skater?) fears for his life during the Winter Games.

According to ESPN:

U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir says he received threats from anti-fur activists that made him fear for his safety, causing him to scrub any plans to stay at a hotel while in Vancouver for the Olympics.

From Reuters:

“There was a lot of attention put on a tiny piece of fur,” said the 25-year-old, the 2008 world bronze medalist. “While I do understand anti-fur activists views about fur and the fur industry, they aren’t part of my life. One thing that is horrible is when somebody pushes a belief on you like a religion. I was definitely threatened and felt very threatened. People are nuts.

“I’m an easy person to pick on because I’m very open I like fur and I like things that come from dead animals. It’s easy put your cause against an athlete going to the Olympic Games, it’s good free publicity for these activists. I’m not a huge politician that gets these threats all the time. I mean I’m a figure skater. It’s not normal to receive a threat that really threatens your life. It’s a very scary thing.”

They didn’t just go after him. They’ve threatened “contacted” his costume designer as well. (Costume designers get no love unless something goes wrong.) The entire episode has forced Weir to literally share a hotel suite with a female American ice dancer, who just happens to be his teammate’s ex-girlfriend.

The plot thickens! Well … no, not really. I mean, come on. He’s a figure skater.

Continue reading ‘Save the Mink! (But Slaughter the Olympic Figure Skaters)’

14
Feb

Go Veg! Destroy the Earth!

By Pastafarian 16 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists and Environmentalists

For years I’ve been told by (totally not smug, non-crazy, calm, and tolerant) vegetarians that driving my Hummer H1 two blocks to the store kills the environment, that  burning piles of asbestos in garbage cans behind my trailer harms the environment, that whipping beer bottles out of my car window harms the environment. (And could someone please explain to me why storing 1,800 lead-acid batteries in my backyard is bad for anyone?)

And, oh yeah … that eating red meat is the worst thing you could do to the planet.

Well guess what, filthy vegan hippies? You’re the ones killing the third rock from the sun.

In a study commissioned by the WWF (no, not that WWF, but can you just imagine all those greased-up, mulleted wrestlers with their giant golden belts in lab coats somewhere?), the good Brits at Cranfield University found:

… switching from British-bred beef and lamb to meat substitutes imported from abroad such as tofu and Quorn would increase the amount of land cultivated, raising the risk of forests being destroyed …

The researchers concluded: ‘A switch from beef and milk to highly refined livestock product analogues such as tofu could actually increase the quantity of arable land needed to supply the UK.

Whoops.

How could this be? You know, I’ve been saying for years that more people eating nothing but vegetables would mean we would need more land to grow those vegetables. Something  about clear-cutting forests and stuff.

But when I say things like that everyone looks at me like my friends did when I told them I thought those two old chicks in that insurance commercial sitting on that park bench making fun of everybody were hot. Yeah. Kinda like how you’re looking at me right now.

Stop that, mom. I mean it.

12
Feb

James Cameron Lives on Another Planet (Not Pandora)

By Holly Won't 20 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Businesses, Environmentalists, Movie Stars, U.S. Left-wing Politicos and U.S. Right-Wing Politicos

Cocky-as-ever James Cameron wants you to know he doesn’t give a rat’s ass if he wins enough Oscars to play chess with on March 7, because Avatar is about more than that, you know.

And he has this to say to his “right-wing” critics:

“Let me put it this way. I’m happy to piss those guys off. I don’t agree with their worldview.” As for his detractors’ contempt for his environmental consciousness, dramatized in the film by the callous destruction of the Na’vi’s pastoral world, Cameron says that the film’s environmental message is a lesson for all moviegoers to digest. He explains that our planet “will be a dying world if we don’t make some fundamental changes about how we view ourselves and how we view wealth …. We’re going to have to live with less.”

Says the guy who lives in a 6-bedroom, 7-bath 8,272 square foot Malibu dream house.

Look, I enjoyed Avatar as a work of fiction. But for reals, James Cameron? Is this new way to “view wealth” why you’ve obviously given away all the money you’ve made from Terminator, Terminator 2, Titanic, and Avatar? I mean, the least he could do is donate his hair to Locks of Love.

The real message of Avatar? People in glass mansions shouldn’t throw stones.

12
Feb

Bill Nye, Gullible Smoke-Blowing Guy

By Guest Blogger 24 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Environmentalists, Scientists and Television Stars

A note from your friendly Oversneer: Deceiver reader “Barney Snakes” contributed this piece. Anyone else who wants to try his or her hand at hypocrite-hunting can e-mail me at oversneer@gmail.com. Come on! You know you want to…

Bill Nye, climatologist smoke-blowing mechanical engineer of 1990’s TV fame, appeared on the Rachael Maddow Show this week to proclaim that skeptics of climate change science are unpatriotic.

Maddow asked: “Can you explain in layman’s terms—does a snow storm disprove global warming?”

If you don’t know what’s coming next, you’ve probably been shoveling your driveway nonstop for the last 48 hours. So what are you doing reading this?

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Nye quickly corrects Maddow by reminding her we don’t call it “Global Warming” anymore. (Ya know … since the earth hasn’t warmed at all in the past decade.) It’s “Climate Change” now.

Maddow lobs another softball:  “Is it consistent to have extreme weather conditions, to have big storms … and to have the type of Climate Change that’s been forecast and discussed by most of the reputable scientists in the world?”

And Nye agrees with her.  D’oh!

Continue reading ‘Bill Nye, Gullible Smoke-Blowing Guy’

08
Feb

James Cameron Needs Your Money Help!

By Sarah Jessica Snarker 28 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Entertainment, Environmentalists and Movie Stars

Let’s call it a mixed week for James Cameron.

True, Avatar swept up nine Academy Award nominations including Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Directing, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Picture, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects.

But it was also ousted from the top spot at the box office over the weekend by Nicholas Sparks’ Dear John, a schmaltzy, uninspired excuse of a rom-com starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried. (Who? Exactly.)

Most critics attribute this surprise takeover to Tatum’s chiseled abs. (Queue quiet snickering, finger pointing, etc.)

No, but seriously, back to the Oscar nominations thing. Along with the Academy’s totally hue-ist snubbing of so many blue-tinted virtuoso performances, there was one category that seemed conspicuously absent from the above list: Best Adapted Screenplay.

Now obviously I’m not the only one who noticed some major similarities between Avatar’s clichéd, paper-thin plot and a handful of other films/stories including (but not limited to) Fern Gully, Pocahontas, Halo, and of course Costner’s 1990 tatonka-and-loin-cloth epic, Dances With Wolves.

But now Ecorazzi is reporting:

[T]he entertainment website Heavy.com is making a case for the uncanny resemblances between James Cameron’s Avatar and a comic book series titled Firekind.

Firekind ran weekly in 2000 AD, a British science fiction comic anthology best known for its Judge Dredd stories. Created by John Smith and Paul Marshall, the comic series features a human botanist named Hendrick Larsen who travels to Gennyo-Leil, a jungle alien world with a toxic atmosphere, large dragons, blue-skinned natives, and floating rocks.

Heavy charted a table of comparison and described the plot similarities noting that, “If you were to sell Firekind or any kind of fire today, you’d be told it was a rip-off of Avatar – even though it predates the earliest 1994 ‘scriptments’ of Avatar by a year.”

Hmmmm. Fascinating.

Continue reading ‘James Cameron Needs Your Money Help!’

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