Brooders

Now, this is an interesting list of movies. Check out Top 50 Dystopian Movies of all time.

I found this through the Infocult feed. Bryan mentions:

It’s probably not a good sign that I’ve seen 45 of the 50.

A quick count has me at 28, with another 7 on my “to watch list”. I get the feeling he’s got a few years on me, hence why his tally is a touch higher. But I agree with the sentiment, not sure that’s a good sign either. Considering Blade Runner and Twelve Monkeys are two of my favourite movies. Perhaps it’s a latent fear that society is always capable of destroying itself.

Quite a few of these show up on SFAM’s Cyberpunk review, which isn’t a surprise as dystopia is a common theme.

( Via InfoCult Greatest Dystopian Films )

Ask yourself: With which instrument do you cause more greenhouse-gas emissions: your car key or your fork? ( Via Driving Us to Vegetarianism )

I subscribe to the Sentient Developments feed, and have recently been thinking about his comments regarding vegetarianism.

Check out:

• Lancet: Eat less meat to combat global warming
• David Roberts on vegetarianism and environmentalism

as much as 22% of greenhouse emissions are from agriculture

Kind of hard to believe (who can you believe nowadays anyway .. everyone has an agenda of some sort).

George has highlighted his thoughts on meat eaters ( Meat Eaters are bad people ). It’s an interesting viewpoint, not sure where I sit. I guess some of depends in how much you believe the food chain things is real or not. If you believe that people are animals and animals eat meat .. well you can probably scratch that off. I personally think that people eat too much meat, because it’s cheap and you can. There are other options for eating .. nowadays price control doesn’t exist (e.g. 100 years ago .. meat was probably really expensive).

I think there is some merit to the emissions argument. I guess that keeping, feeding, preparing, processing and transport all take their environmental toll. However, I think a reduction is more realistic option for me. One of the articles mentions a cutback of 10% to provide a reduction in emissions. The problem, people will see a lot of other issues, power, transport, industry, before this one.

So maybe we’ll end up eating meat flavoured sludge at some point in an effort to reduce emissions.