The Age of Stupid Page #6

be allocated to annual carbon allowance.

So the electronic loyalty

as the supermarket loyalty card,

points will be deducted every time

we buy or use non-renewable energy.

For example, using electricity

to power appliances in the home,

or traveling somewhere by plane,

or even buying petro-fuel for the car

The best way you can help

is by rationing yourselves,

I'm sure that all of you will

buy your fair share and no more.

Airports were expanding all over the world,

to cope with the exploding number of

cheap flights we were all demanding.

And Jeh was doing everything

he could to join the party.

Ultimately, the odd is to hug and then kick.

She saying the PS is been payable, you're saying

the PS is not been payable. What's wrong with you?

Now!

Yes or no? That I ask you the question,

or did I not ask the question?

You're suspended, you're suspended.

Both of you go out now.

It's all in a day's work, haha...

Maintaining my plane means

something to me, ok!?

If I see my step ladder like this,

and if I find one piece of dirt

, you'll be fired.

OK?

Ok?

June 11. 2007, in the hotel room in Bedford.

Pierce is polishing his speech for tonight

showdown with the local planning committee.

This committee can approve this application.

If you do, you would

show courage and leadership.

He has just six minutes to convince

them to approve his wind farm.

I'm absolutely confident,

that if you approve this project,

you'll look back on the decision and

say "Thank goodness we said yes. "

But the committee

rejected pierce's application,

saying that his wind farm would be conspicuous and

out of place in the Bedfordshire landscape,

that it would decrease

enjoyment of nearby foot paths

and negatively impact the listed

buildings and the nation's monuments.

In other words, it would spoil the view.

Oh we're delighted

that it's been refused, yes.

It's a wonderful result.

It just shows if you work hard

if you look at all the facts,

if you do with fair and balance,

you can get a good outcome.

might even be 11 against one in favor.

But there only one guy who

actually,actually votes in favor.

Cheers, man.

Hi, mom. It's Piers. I think it's

I could have said, be honest.

It wouldn't make any difference

Of course we're worried

about global warming,

I mean, it's got to be something

we all concerned about.

I mean, we're doing our bit to try conserve

and looking for renewable energy.

Of course, absolutely, yeah, I mean,

we're part of the worldhaha... yes.

And it is global warming.

For the first time, Scientists confirm the link

between climate change and our awful weather.

An emergency services

scramble and Bedfordshire

And the flood water finally work

their way along the great tubes,

other parts of Bedfordshire

didn't escape, either.

We've lived at here for forty years,

and we've never ever

have anything like this.

after cyclone Nargis

emergency across Western Europe with

drinking water strictly rationing in Holland, France..

Forest fire is still sweep

across Vegas. Unfortunately,...

for motorists right to drive, said Lord Clarkson..

Good news for the UK wine

industries, especially

New Orleans will not be rebuilt at

this time, the Louisiana government

...Total Destruction of Indian Dams

would end Pakistan's drinking water crisis.

As U.S president's choices to

continue out because of.

San Francisco extraordinary

heat wave continue hit in Los Angeles

Extreme weather somewhere around

the planet increasing in these days

Skiing in the Alps is over

Channel Four documentaries ask is

global warming really happening, or natural

the highest land temperature

More than a hundred

million people are homeless tonight

Methane emitted in Siberia

The last Indonesian tree found,

but five fuel crisis

European Union today

permanently closed all of it

...must be reserved for food production

London Is under water again,

as last night 30 foot storm surge overcame

New Zealand has also now closed its

borders leaving 22 million stranded

...refugees in middle east and

continental Europe

...half of the species are now extinct,

scientist estimate, and eco systems are collapsing.

passing 2 degrees, we cannot

now stop runaway climate change

There are simply too many people to

feed and are remained famine

...suicide rates increasing

eight hundred percent

The Amazon rain forest is still burning

And anyone who cannot bear

to eat their own cats and dogs

we are entering

the eighth world food crisis

The world temperature

today is passing 4 degrees

retaliation nuclear strike

We wouldn't be the first life

form to wipe itself out.

But what would be unique about us

is that we did it knowingly.

And what's that say about us?

The question I've been asking is,

why didn't we save ourselves

when we had the chance?

Is the answer because on some level,

we weren't sure if we were worth saving?

Please proceed near the aircraft,

and take care of the responsibility.

You know if all of us stood united, in terms,

the world would be different in every way,

Unfortunately, that's not the reality.

If we can not even stand united on

eradicating poverty in the world,

what is the health of

the planet has any chance?

In my opinion, our use or misuse

of resources in the last hundreds years or so,

I probably would rename that,

age, something like the

The age of ignorance.

The age of stupid.

I just find it, surprising.

That after so much effort, the final act

of our existence, should be suicide.

So why did I build this archive?

It's a cautionary tale.

Not for us. Too late for us.

But for..., well...,

for whoever, whatever,

eventually finds this recording.

And away you go.

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