Summary, 13-14april 2010

Reality television, dominating the tube right now is about the real behaviors of the people in real environments. They show people getting embarrassed or disappointed. Reality shows are scripted and obviously staged. Reality shows is profitable as these shows are cheap to produce. This erases the boundaries between public and private. Despite sitcoms and dramas that have growing ability to wrap up every dilemma, reality shows can still genuinely surprise. Producers of the shows latch onto ideas that grab us in some fundamental place. if they keep showing programmes like this, they're going to be the network that humiliates people. producers will be forced to add more bells and whistles and gimmicks, until they eventually go completely over the top, turning off both viewers and advertisers. Anyone whom deliberately eavesdropped on a conversation in a train or been to a party and poked into the host's medicine cabinet will relate to these shows (145Words)

English summary

Current approaches to environmentalism do not work because regardless the 20years of increasingly warnings Carbon emission is on growing . Developing world floods the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. Environmentalism is to cure the worst effects, and economic growth makes that job easier. Economy grows when globalisation, factory farming, suburban sprawl. Rich people buys catalytic converter that magically scrubs the sky above the city. Endless economic growth is built on the use of cheap fossil fuels, Coal, oil, and natural gas are miraculous it compact, easily transportable, and cheap. Burning a gallon of gases is releasing five pounds of carbon into the atmosphere. China demonstrates the cheapest way to spur economic growth by burning more fossil fuel. Fuels threatens our civilization. Carbon dioxide has no indication of improvement for living standards to rise . A movement takes those desires more seriously even than the consumer economy has taken them.