James Cameron Drinks too much Avatar Juice
Ok, I loved the movie Avatar. Saw it twice, in IMAX. It is probably my most memorable movie experience of all time (up there with first seeing the Matrix and Jurrasic Park).
I also really liked the story. Sure, it had.. similarities.. to Pocahontas. And the evil greedy corporate types were.. evil and greedy. But I dont really care about that when I am watching a movie. Maybe it was because I was an english major (I know... odd when you think about it) but I get tired of analyzing and looking for meaning instead of just reveling in the spectacle and pure enjoyment.
However, it seems Mr. Cameron has been having a little too much Pandora Delight. He's started to complain about his tail, tried to bond with his private jet, and made this statement:
"Nothing is going to change until we properly price carbon. Right now gas is $3 a gallon at the pump. In my perspective, gas is $15 or $20 a gallon if you fully burden it with the cost of all of these big military actions, the overall consequences to the economy and the long term costs of climate change."
Ok, the first two were not real, but the statement is. WTF? Are you out of your mind? Did you honestly just take the cost of the Iraq war, divide it by number of gallons consumed in the US, and come out with a number? Because I could make up all kinds of shit then. BMW's would be seriously freaking expensive, since we had to fight a global conflict and have millions die just so that we could get access to that German engineering. And French wine? Well its expensive now, but let me tell you that once you count in the cost of breaking Napoleon's Continental System just so that he would ship us the good stuff once again, damn we are talking a few thousand (inflation adjusted) dollars a bottle.
Not to mention the cost of Vietnamese... um.. of Vietnamese... of.. what the f? You're telling me we invaded their country and there was not EVEN ANYTHING WORTH BUYING FROM THEM??? What were we doing there? Seriously people. Get with the program.
James Cameron - don't worry, they are not going to blow up Home Tree. I repeat, simmer down, Home Tree is safe, HOME TREE IS SAFE!
The funny thing is, I agree there should be a price on carbon. Its a pollutant, there is a cost from pollution, there should be a cost to pollute. Simple. Its a market, and the objective is setting a reasonable price that achieves positive outcomes.
But really, $15-$20 a gallon? Come on. Really? Really? Reaally? We all know that's just ridiculous. Hell, that would mean Exxon would make about $50 billion in profit... per quarter. Whose side are you really on here James? Unless of course you want there to be a $17 tax on $3 of gasoline. But what happened the last time gasoline prices spiked (to the shocking price of $4 a gallon)? Oh yeah - a global recession.
I hate it when arguments (I support) are blown way out of scale. It opens them up to ridicule and greatly decreases the chance that they can be proven and accepted. The IPCC's ridiculous claims about climate change brought it climategate and the disbelief of a large chunk of the global population. This kind idiotic bullshit statement about gasoline has the same effect.
If you said gasoline should be $4 maybe $5 a gallon. Ok, lets have that debate, lets have that discussion. If you said we should adopt the EU system of taxing cars differently based on their emissions, ok, thats interesting, lets see where that goes (secession of Texas anyone...). But to say we should figure the cost of any war fought in an oil-producing region into the cost of oil is just downright idiotic.
James, you make great movies, but other than that, STFU.
I also really liked the story. Sure, it had.. similarities.. to Pocahontas. And the evil greedy corporate types were.. evil and greedy. But I dont really care about that when I am watching a movie. Maybe it was because I was an english major (I know... odd when you think about it) but I get tired of analyzing and looking for meaning instead of just reveling in the spectacle and pure enjoyment.
However, it seems Mr. Cameron has been having a little too much Pandora Delight. He's started to complain about his tail, tried to bond with his private jet, and made this statement:
"Nothing is going to change until we properly price carbon. Right now gas is $3 a gallon at the pump. In my perspective, gas is $15 or $20 a gallon if you fully burden it with the cost of all of these big military actions, the overall consequences to the economy and the long term costs of climate change."
Ok, the first two were not real, but the statement is. WTF? Are you out of your mind? Did you honestly just take the cost of the Iraq war, divide it by number of gallons consumed in the US, and come out with a number? Because I could make up all kinds of shit then. BMW's would be seriously freaking expensive, since we had to fight a global conflict and have millions die just so that we could get access to that German engineering. And French wine? Well its expensive now, but let me tell you that once you count in the cost of breaking Napoleon's Continental System just so that he would ship us the good stuff once again, damn we are talking a few thousand (inflation adjusted) dollars a bottle.
Not to mention the cost of Vietnamese... um.. of Vietnamese... of.. what the f? You're telling me we invaded their country and there was not EVEN ANYTHING WORTH BUYING FROM THEM??? What were we doing there? Seriously people. Get with the program.
James Cameron - don't worry, they are not going to blow up Home Tree. I repeat, simmer down, Home Tree is safe, HOME TREE IS SAFE!
The funny thing is, I agree there should be a price on carbon. Its a pollutant, there is a cost from pollution, there should be a cost to pollute. Simple. Its a market, and the objective is setting a reasonable price that achieves positive outcomes.
But really, $15-$20 a gallon? Come on. Really? Really? Reaally? We all know that's just ridiculous. Hell, that would mean Exxon would make about $50 billion in profit... per quarter. Whose side are you really on here James? Unless of course you want there to be a $17 tax on $3 of gasoline. But what happened the last time gasoline prices spiked (to the shocking price of $4 a gallon)? Oh yeah - a global recession.
I hate it when arguments (I support) are blown way out of scale. It opens them up to ridicule and greatly decreases the chance that they can be proven and accepted. The IPCC's ridiculous claims about climate change brought it climategate and the disbelief of a large chunk of the global population. This kind idiotic bullshit statement about gasoline has the same effect.
If you said gasoline should be $4 maybe $5 a gallon. Ok, lets have that debate, lets have that discussion. If you said we should adopt the EU system of taxing cars differently based on their emissions, ok, thats interesting, lets see where that goes (secession of Texas anyone...). But to say we should figure the cost of any war fought in an oil-producing region into the cost of oil is just downright idiotic.
James, you make great movies, but other than that, STFU.
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