Bruce Parry's "Artic"

badcompany · 30 Jan 2011 at 21:58

Been watching this on BBC and it has shown the Alberto oil sands !

It makes you weep what they are doing to the land all in the name of civilisation.

it takes 1 barrel of oil to extract 2 barrels of oil !

IF there is a GOD he must surely weep when he looks down on this.

MOD add the c to title please.

meghatronic · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:02

badcompany said:
IF there is a GOD he must surely weep when he looks down on this.

I don't see why.

badcompany · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:05

meghatronic said:
I don't see why.

What the way we are raping the natural environment for our oil addiction? The destruction is mind blowing tbh

Scuzi · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:06

badcompany said:
IF there is a GOD he must surely weep when he looks down on this.

That's where all our rain comes from. Melting ice caps aren't the cause of rising water levels. It's God being a pussy.

Lopéz · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:09

Arctic. Unless it was a programme about trucks?

Amp34 · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:11

I agree totally. Oil sands, although potentially necessary and profitable, really are a nasty product where the environment is concerned.

It's something that divides me, because I am entering that industry, but I aim to not work on anything like that...

Kol · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:14

meghatronic said:
I don't see why.

Erm, have you seen what his show is portraying?

RetiredGreyFox · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:18

badcompany said:
IF there is a GOD he must surely weep when he looks down on this.

God is weeping because he put the oil in a stupid place

meghatronic · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:19

Kol said:
Erm, have you seen what his show is portraying?

I haven't watched it. But I doubt God would care. After all, he is a god. He could smite us Sodom and Gomorrah style if he genuinely cared.

cheets64 · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:19

Dont google pictures "China pollution"

Kol · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:26

meghatronic said:
I haven't watched it. But I doubt God would care. After all, he is a god. He could smite us Sodom and Gomorrah style if he genuinely cared.

I don't think the OP specifically meant it that only IF there was a God, more than just shock at the general devastation and little appreciation of the land we have. If you watched (and knew what he was talking about) it would make sense rather than commenting blind.

RetiredGreyFox · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:31

But the oil is on the top of the land (and quite a few metres down) so man isn't devastating the land because it's already ruined.
The devastating part is all the smoke going into the air from the refineries and of course what MIGHT be going into the rivers.

teaboy5 · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:31

badcompany said:
What the way we are raping the natural environment for our oil addiction? The destruction is mind blowing tbh

If you care so much why don't you turn your computer off and go off-line.

One less computer, tv etc to worry about it.

The oil sands are a joke, as it takes so much energy to extract one barrel it hardly makes it worth while.

badcompany · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:31

Kol said:
I don't think the OP specifically meant it that only IF there was a God, more than just shock at the general devastation and little appreciation of the land we have. If you watched (and knew what he was talking about) it would make sense rather than commenting blind.

You hit the nail on the head, I was generalising at the sheer scale of destruction.

Scania · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:34

Damn!

I thought we had a trucking thread....

badcompany · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:34

dmpoole said:
But the oil is on the top of the land (and quite a few metres down) so man isn't devastating the land because it's already ruined.
The devastating part is all the smoke going into the air from the refineries and of course what MIGHT be going into the rivers.

You didn't watch it then :rolleyes:

the clan chief was showing us were he used to hunt and live. ( now its a F'ing big hole in the ground and all the fish have cists and other weird illnesses and a high proportion of the people die of rare cancers) The land is habitual and was supporting wildlife for 1000's of years.

RetiredGreyFox · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:46

badcompany said:
You didn't watch it then the clan chief was showing us were he used to hunt and live. ( now its a F'ing big hole in the ground and all the fish have cists and other weird illnesses and a high proportion of the people die of rare cancers) The land is habitual and was supporting wildlife for 1000's of years.

Of course I watched it, Bruce Parry should be made compulsory.
So much for the Chief embracing his new culture, keeping his headgear as a reminder and working on his Windows 7 PC making a fortune - traitor.
Virtually everybody has a job now whether it's working on the oil sands or being a lap dancer.
Did you watch it? (I don't do roll eyes, very immature)

badcompany · 30 Jan 2011 at 22:53

dmpoole said:
Of course I watched it, Bruce Parry should be made compulsory.
So much for the Chief embracing his new culture, keeping his headgear as a reminder and working on his Windows 7 PC making a fortune - traitor.
Virtually everybody has a job now whether it's working on the oil sands or being a lap dancer.
Did you watch it? (I don't do roll eyes, very immature)

I thought it was sad that after the fur trade was outlawed his kin had no option other than work the tar sands. Although the other place he visited was great very tranquil.

RetiredGreyFox · 30 Jan 2011 at 23:10

badcompany said:
I thought it was sad that after the fur trade was outlawed his kin had no option other than work the tar sands

..... where they are earning 3 to 4 times the normal wage and don't go hungry anymore.

badcompany said:
Although the other place he visited was great very tranquil.

Very tranquil but 12 people living in one room and going hungry for periods of time.
That's why they now live in a normal place and just bugger off to the tranquil place for a bit to hunt and then get back to normality.

bloodiedathame · 31 Jan 2011 at 00:41

Surely everything we as humans are doing on this planet is actually totally natural behaviour (otherwise we wouldn't be exhibiting it)? And as a result everything that happens on the planet is natural. Yes it could well be leading to our own extinction (MAD) but it is human nature to develop, create, think, be greedy, be violent, and make life easier for oneself. And that is precisely what we have been doing for millions of years.