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Related: About this forumWilliam Shatner's Environmental Revelations Returning From Space:
I still don't believe billionaires like bezos should be doing this. But, Shatner did a great interview.
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William Shatner's Environmental Revelations Returning From Space: (Original Post)
mucifer
Oct 2021
OP
Although I watched a lot of the original Star Trek episodes, I'm not a Trekkie.
StarryNite
Oct 2021
#4
hey if the TRIP turns Shatner into a activist Environmentalist that's a good thing
YoshidaYui
Oct 2021
#5
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)1. Wonderful thing. Do Poetry and Joy have a price?
Thats from a lifelong Trekkie, hope those who are not get it.
StarryNite
(9,464 posts)4. Although I watched a lot of the original Star Trek episodes, I'm not a Trekkie.
That being said, I found this interview to be truly amazing.
Lovie777
(12,374 posts)2. K & R . . .
Fellow Trekkie
Rorey
(8,445 posts)3. Wow! Wow! Wow!
Thank you for posting this.
YoshidaYui
(41,867 posts)5. hey if the TRIP turns Shatner into a activist Environmentalist that's a good thing
Maybe he will lend his voice to the cause.
Uncle Joe
(58,469 posts)6. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread mucifer.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)7. I Can't Watch This Interview Enough
We are killing our species.
DENVERPOPS
(8,866 posts)8. I don't think
this series (or some other series) adequately prepared us for the coming of the BORG and it's statement: Resistance Is Futile.......
Duppers
(28,127 posts)9. His emotion, plus what he said about saving earth's environment impressed me.
He wants to commit to fighting global warming/saving the planet's environment from human destruction. And he realizes how fragile it is. Yet most of us go on our merry way never giving a thought to how we're affecting the planet.
Experts calculate that ~0.1% of all species are becoming extinct each year.
For instance, Do you use a Gas-powered leaf blower?
These leaf blowers have now been banned in some cities and in Calif.
Electric ones pollute less. Small changes can make a difference.
Experts calculate that ~0.1% of all species are becoming extinct each year.
For instance, Do you use a Gas-powered leaf blower?
A study by Washington University in St. Louis writes, "... gas-powered leaf blower emits nearly 300 times the amount of air pollutants as a pickup truck."
These leaf blowers have now been banned in some cities and in Calif.
Electric ones pollute less. Small changes can make a difference.
Response to Duppers (Reply #9)
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Duppers
(28,127 posts)11. I don't understand your post.
You disagree with banning gas-powered blowers?