I wish I had seen that rant (I take it you posted it via YouTube?).
Nope, I don't have a camera, (I wish) it was a podcast, and a few topics in a few places. Here are the links,
http://giuliano.mypodcast.com/2009/07/Free_and_fair_trade-226780.htmlhttp://giulianosforum.createaforum.com/global/violence-between-indigenous-people-and-the-peruvian-government/http://boards.adultswim.com/adultswim/board/message?board.id=9&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=8251794#M8251794http://boards.adultswim.com/adultswim/board/message?board.id=9&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=8261262#M8261262Sad, people are too engrossed in their shallow television sets, the cost of gas, and office politics to truly be concerned, and those who do take action are, in majority, pseudo-hippies who mostly do little than complain and rant on the PETA website.
Unfortunately pseudo is a word that can be attached to most political movements... the truth is a lot of people join these things because its the popular thing to do, or because someone told them to do it. In either case they don't know why they do and say the things they do, they just follow others. I have to say, I have even less respect for people like that, than the millions of people who ignore politics entirely and don't even vote, at least those people aren't doing damage.
Just imagine the dying ecosystems decades from now and the havoc the blazing heat (that is to say, famine) and the ensuing rising of waters, cascading into massive flooding. Need I mention the change in the current belt (due to warming of the ocean waters, waters that flow in a distinct cycle of drifting coasts and seas) that could easily cascade into world-wide catastrophe?
Lets just say, I wouldn't support any policy that didn't take a self imposed apocalypse seriously. You'd think most people would agree with that...
Nuclear power has so much potential, as does solar energy. The problem is the lack of energy-friendly power plants, nor any real fiscal initiative to build them.
That's why it needs to be funded.