We challenged filmmakers and concerned citizens to explain in just 30 seconds how capping global warming pollution could help solve our oil addiction.
Out of 100 submissions, we had five finalists. Then we asked our Action Network to vote on your favorite for the Climate Activists' Choice Award.
And the winner is…
Thinking Cap, Artist: Scott Canney, Adel, Iowa
After you watch the winning video and the other finalists, please share your review by commenting below.
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Global warm is a hoax. It is a means to make more bureaucracy and six figure incomes for many around the country. Then they will be dependent on voting Al Gore's party.
After Jesus takes the church to Heaven in the Rapture
[I Thessalonians 4:16-18] many of you will have worse problems than global warming. Read the Book of Revelation 6:13 and 8:10.
One meteorite will cause so many convulsions on this earth and in the ocean, that you will wish you were with us in Heaven above.
Rev. Dr. I. Ray Berrian, Th.D.
http://www.spreadthewordministries.org
Amazing – educated and dumb at the saem time…..may God truuly help us all.
Congratulations Scott for winning the Climate Activists' Choice Award.
The fish video is excellent – the music makes it very compelling, but I realize the message may not be obvious, especially to people who don't believe in global warming (heaven help us, indeed). Thinking Cap is clever, direct and positive, and perhaps something most people can grasp.
I love the symbolism of a thinking cap! Wouldn't it be grand for human beings to value rational thinking over propaganda? Last I knew, science is based on measurement & extrapolation of facts(otherwise it's called a theory). If one paid attention to ALL the FACTS people would be far less subject to manipulation. And just for the record….isn't there something about stewardship/caretaking and being held accountable for one's actions prior to being allowed into heaven?
The problem of climate change
The environmental problems become more and more among the most pressing concerns of our time. What calls an immediate and constant action on behalf of all?
All started with the industrial revolution of 1750 which gave beginning with the capitalist system. In two centuries and half, the countries called “developed” consumed most of fossil fuels created in five million centuries.
Today, our planet is sick. Since the beginning from the 21ème century, we lived the years MORE HEATS of last the miles years. The reheating of planet causes abrupt changes in the climate among which it y a: the retreat of the glaciers, the increase in the sea level and the flood of coastal territories in the neighbourhoods of which 60% of the world population saw where some nations are condemned to disappear, the increase in the processes of turning into a desert and the reduction of sources of fresh water, the greatest frequency of natural disasters, the extinction of animal and vegetable species and the propagation of diseases in zones which were before free for these last….etc
The competition and the thirst for unbounded profit of the capitalist system destroy planet. For capitalism we are not human but consuming beings. For capitalism there is not the mother ground but the raw materials. Capitalism is the source of asymmetries and imbalances in the world. It produces the luxury, ostentation and the wasting for some while million dies of hunger in the world. In the hands of capitalism all is transformed into goods: water, ground, the human genome, ancestral cultures, justice, ethics, the death… life itself. All, all, are sold absolutely and it is bought by capitalism.
The “climatic changes” placed all humanity towards a great dilemma: to continue on the way of capitalism and the catastrophes, or to undertake the way of the harmony with nature and the respect with life.
In the Protocol of Kyoto of 1997, the developed countries and economies of transition were committed reducing their gas emissions of effect tightens at least of 5% since the 1990, with implementation of various instruments between which the mechanisms of market prevail. As for the mechanisms of market applied in the developing countries did not obtain a significant reduction in the gas emissions of effect tightens. Until the 2006, the gases for purpose of greenhouse (persons in charge for the climatic changes and in particular the carbon dioxide), which is far from being reduced, were on the other hand increased by 9,1% compared to the levels of 1990, by showing this manner the non-accomplishment of the compromises of the countries developed.
The market is unable to regulate the system financial and productive world, It is also not able to regulate the gas emissions of effect tightens. The health of our planet is much more important than the purses of Wall Street and the benefit of the multinationals.
The logical capitalist promises the paradox whose sectors which more contributed to deteriorate the environment are those which profit more of the programs related to the climatic changes. In the same way, the technology transfer and the financing for a clean and bearable development for the countries of the south always remain in speech.
To rectify this situation, it is necessary to support the developing countries in the implementation of plans and programs to the adaptation and the mitigation of the climatic changes, in the innovation, development and technology transfer, in the conservation and the improvement of tanks, in the actions of response to the serious natural disasters caused by the climatic changes and in the execution of bearable and convivial plans of development with nature.
The financing should not concentrate only with the some developed countries but must give the priority to the countries which contributed less to the gas emissions of effect tightens, those which preserve nature and/or which suffers more the impacts of the climatic changes.
In conclusion, the climatic changes can constitute to a certain extent an opportunity for the world by offering the occasion to him to gather to forge a collective response to this crisis which is likely to slow down progress and to support poverty. Indeed, humanity is able to save planet if it recovers the principles of solidarity, the complementarity and the harmony with nature, in the contraposition with the empire of competition, the profit and the consumption of the natural resources. It is the favourable moment so that the will of the International Community is stronger and more credible to control and even sanction certain multinationals which pollute too much with premeditation. structural of the changes climatic. As long as we will not change the capitalist system by a system based on the complementarity, solidarity and the harmony between the people and nature, measurements that we adopt will be palliative which will be limited and precarious. For us, which missed, it is the model of “better living”, the unlimited development, industrialization without borders, the modernity which scorns the history, of increasing accumulation at the price of the other and nature. This is why we must recommend “To live Well”, harmonizes some with all human beings and our Ground.
The developed countries need to control their owners of consumption – luxury and wasting, especially the excessive fossil fuel consumption. For example, the subsidies with the fossil fuels which rise with the top of 150 billions dollars must gradually be eliminated. It is fundamental to develop alternative energies like solar energy, which are geothermic, the wind power and all that is hydro-electric ET to prevent what is agrocombustibles because it is proven that they are not an alternative because that led to another problem is that of food of people or that of the cars. The agrocombustibles ones extend the agricultural border by destroying the forests and the biodiversity, produce monocultures, promote the concentration of the ground, deteriorate the grounds, exhaust the sources of water, contribute to the rise in the price of food and, in much of case, consume more energy of which they produce.
In recognition with the historical debt ecological which has with planet, the developed countries must create an Integral Financial Mechanism to support the developing countries in the implementation of plans and programs to the adaptation and the mitigation of the climatic changes, in the innovation, development and technology transfer, in the conservation and the improvement of tanks, in the actions of response to the serious natural disasters caused by the climatic changes and in the execution of bearable and convivial plans of development with nature.
The financing should not concentrate only with the some developed countries but must give the priority to the countries which contributed less to the gas emissions of effect tightens, those which preserve nature and/or which suffers more the impacts of the climatic changes.
In conclusion, the climatic changes can constitute to a certain extent an opportunity for the world by offering the occasion to him to gather to forge a collective response to this crisis which is likely to slow down progress and to support poverty. Indeed, humanity is able to save planet if it recovers the principles of solidarity, the complementarity and the harmony with nature, in the contraposition with the empire of competition, the profit and the consumption of the natural resources. It is the favourable moment so that the will of the International Community is stronger and more credible to control and even sanction certain multinationals which pollute too much with premeditation.
The earth has been cooling for the last 10yrs. I know you have put a lot of time, effort, and money into this "global warming" thing, but let's see if we can find something more productive to do.
Despite all the "flat earthers" out there, global warming is real. I like the "thinking cap" video because it is simple and direct and ends on an upbeat hope…. that humanity can turn this around with better stewardship of this planet we call home.
In addition, will others please use this forum for the purposes intended and not for the opportuntiy to post a thesis paper?
Worthy winners. I voted for the Couch one.
But also though Cursing Cap's great.
Also, such a timely initiative – need to start popularizing the message!
I also agree – just comments on the vids and initiative – no thesis papers! I liked Cursing cap because memorable. Need something memorable that triggers cotidian (everyday) application …hey, and doesn't that guy look/act a bit like Bill Murray？!!!
The videos are very entertaining, however, making polluters pay for polluting will not solve the problem of pollution because they have unlimited amounts of money to pay! We must stop passing the buck and realized that consumerism is at the root of pollution. Absolutely everything we buy comes from a pollution generating manufacturing company. They are merely filling our insatiable need to buy and accumulate new crap. The old crap goes to landfills along with the crap from the year before. This is a nation of addicts, and they are merely our suppliers. We are addicted to shopping, over eating, televisions, cell phones and texting, computers, and lets not forget drugs and alcohol. That is just the way they like. If we really want to stop further degradation of the environment, we must be willing to do our part. We can show them we mean business and kick them we it hurts…in their pockets, by not buying what they are selling, and making a commitment to only buy what is local, and what is neccessary. The question is….do we have the courage to curb our addictions and bring them to their knees?
I like the cursing cap much better than the other finalists. The message was delivered to the viewers clearly and directly. Congratulations to the winners and good luck to our quest for survival on the warming planet.
I fully appreciate the initiative from the Thinking Cap.
Moreover, population over growth in certain areas of the World is the main reason for pollution. 100 years back a persons requirement was just a few clothing, 2 pairs of chappal or shoes, ordinary simple food, hardly any medicines, simple hobbies and entertainments. But today a child in the womb has so many requirement of medicines, comforts, right from the day of birth, till death it requires so much of clothes, hitec food, electronics, computors, cars, petrol, hobbies, medicines, gadgets,expensive entertainments, travel,etc. Especially now even the common man requires these benefits. So what happens, the demand is there and so industries just grow and grow polluting the entire atmosphere. All trees are taken away for various demands. Cattles are cut in plenty as food requrement. This is now, what happens in another 100 years. In my opinion, the only way is, we have to control
population, allow trees and animals to grow in plenty, so that Mother Earth can balance hereself well.
There is a GIGANTIC FLAW in the reasoning of most global warming (GW) skeptics and deniers, such as Dr, Berrian and Brandon Ramsey above.
The 1st step (of which some are more guilty, some less): moving from more-or-less legitimate doubts about the validity and significance of global warming science to the *illegitimate* categorical rejection of it. True, most who advocate taking GW seriously are guilty of categorically *accepting* the science, but it's not the same guilt, so far as scientific consensus can't be equated with corporate-sponsored groupthink. Absent scientifically validated grounds for rejecting the scientific consensus, we are well-justified in accepting it provisionally.
The 2nd step: moving from an opinion about the facts to advocacy for a policy position (what to do about it): "global warming is a hoax" –>therefore–> we shouldn't worry about it.
That's a VERY BAD MOVE. Here's why.
For simplicity, let's say there are 2 positions on the facts of GW:
A) Probably true;
B) Probably false.
And 2 policy options:
a) Take it very seriously
b) Do nothing.
This gives us four possible combinations:
Aa) GW [ IS ] a serious threat, and we [ DO ] take it seriously.
Ab) GW [ IS ] a serious threat, and we [DON'T] take it seriously.
Ba) GW [ISN'T] a serious threat, and we [ DO ] take it seriously.
Bb) GW [ISN'T] a serious threat, and we [DON'T] take it seriously.
There are two ways to be wrong:
Ba) Take GW seriously, tho it's not a serious problem;
Ab) Fail to take it seriously, tho it IS a serious problem.
Any position we take gives us the possibility of making one or the other of these mistakes; so we must weigh their likely consequences and compare them, to choose which we're willing to risk:
Ba) As jobs and resources shift toward green technologies, oil and coal company profits fall….and fall. For the dirty energy companies, the result is potentially cataclysmic.
Ab) The oceans warm, ice melts, seas rise, the gulf stream stops, global climate patterns are radically altered, and Earth becomes hostile to human presence. For EVERYONE, the result is potentially cataclysmic.
So: no matter whether you think GW science is probably true or probably false, there is only one sane policy orientation: take it very seriously, as long as there is *any* doubt.
Case closed.
(Btw, I voted for the Couch, but am pleased with the Cap
)
I liked Carbon Limit with the road signs. It gave clear concise information about the Carbon Limit and it has engaging graphics. Both the Thinking Cap and the Cursing Cap are just a little too cute for me, maybe memorable. Both the winners seem less professional than the Carbon Limit. Even if the cursing guy looks like Bill Murry.
Thinking cap was OK but I lost interest when the music started. I liked the catchy Cursing Cap and the Couch since they were simplistic and memorable, especially for our youth…being a nature lover the Goldfish brought tears to my eyes when I saw our goldfish(America)become a bowl of black oil from overeating.
Oil caps are good…however OVERPOPULATION is the BIG problem in the U.S. as well as the rest of the world…fostering this is religion, self-centeredness and the creation of more children used as a survival tool in third world countries. Our pollution problems will NEVER truly decrease until we reduce the population growth. In the 60's philosophers in college spoke about overpopulation increasing pollution…I took it to heart to do my part for the earth.
I believe it's never too late to help this planet and help others see that they need to take personal responsibility for protecting the health of our universe. These videos are a good step in the right direction.
I liked the thinking cap. There are many ways we can conserve energy and it starts with the individual. The changing of our climates and melting of our icecaps should be proof enough of global warming. God created our world and humanity is destroying it. We have to stop living for today and think about what we are leaving future generations. All entries were excellent. Some people have their thinking caps on and the creative juices are flowing.
To put it simply. Take care of polution and come up with a alternative way of producing enrgy both in our homes and methods of transportation then the so call global warming will take care of its self. Stop making it a politcal football and a socialist sounding board about the need for population control government intervention and have they notice it is cold as it has ever been this winter across the entire nation NSEW and around the world. Rising seas have not happen and all the other fear they need to gain control of individuals who know how to think on their own. Give us a break and let us breathe clean air with out the bull shit.
If wee bath in Luxury we should bath in the responsibility to restrict polution.
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