The Age of Stupid Page #2

stops you, in your tracks, dead stop,

take a breath, you know, there's

nothing more precious than that.

Alvin's neighbors were the lucky ones,

hurricane Katrina was America's worst

weather related event to that date.

And it was just a taste of what was to come.

"It is our fault," after years of debate

, some of the world's top scientists.

"Unequivocable," this the word

they used, human activity is.

Contributing to changes in our earth climate,

and that issue is no longer up to debate.

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In Andermatt,

they've covered the glacier with a special

protective sheet reduce its summer melt.

One way I do my bit for the environment

is turning to 30 with Ariel.

This is offsetting all those flights that I take

that I have to for my job.

David Cameron even wears recycled shoes

made from old fireman's trousers.

Despite all the efforts to control pollution

and its effect in our climate,

the level of greenhouse gas emission has reached

a record highand shows no signs of being reversed.

Despite the Kyoto treaty, and all the talk

of reducing emission of carbon dioxide,

level of this key greenhouse gas

are rising faster than ever.

heading up to work, searching for more oil.

Ironically, the oil infrastructure off the coast of New Orleans

suffered major damage during the hurricane,

but Shell moved fast to carry

out repair and just 9 months later,

the rigs are online, and

everyone's back at work.

Oil was formed when ancient plant life in the ocean

absorbed energy from the ancient sun.

When these plants died, they settled in the ocean floor

along with the dead bodies of tons and tons of ocean creatures.

Over millennia, temperature increased

and the organic matter was gradually cooked

until the sun's energy

was stored inside oil.

analyzed where the oil might be,

and then drilled 3 miles down

into the seabed to collect samples.

Hey you go Al, get yourself. Thank you

We get the samples and analyze them

for the fossil contents. The microscopic fossils.

And it's just another geo-scientific tool

in order to improve your possibility of finding oil.

In my opinion, probably arrogantly so,

but it's pretty high calling

actually to try to do that,

to try to figure out or maybe

take apart, you know, time itself.

Go back a few thousand years,

and the energy available to grow our crops or feed animals

was limited by the daily sunlight falling on the earth.

But now,

we gorge ourselves on hundreds of years

worth of sunlight every single year.

Every part of modern life is

now literally made of oil.

From CDs to plastic bags,

to medicines and computers.

From clothes and carpets to

hair gel and cell phones.

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