My Diaries

The quote of the day :

“No time to be void and save up on life, you’ve got to spend it all“

Pearl Jam,
Light Years, Binaural

Bravo! The “Act for Trees” operation was fruitful. The objective to create 100 million leaves in the virtual forests of the online game at www.act4trees.com was reached last week-end. Following a couple days of service unavailability for the website, the organizers seem to have chosen to reach their goal somewhat faster, by allowing the creation of 10 leaves per visitor click (initially 1 leaf per click). As a consequence, the virtual forests underwent a “bamboosian” growth and the objective was largely met (118 595 494 virtual leaves in total). This is inevitably good news for AquaVerde organization, who will get the promised 10000€ and will continue with its activities in favor of the protection of the Rainforest.

The quote of the day :

“What I want is what I’ve not got, and what I need is all around me“

Dave Matthews
Jimi Thing, Under the Table and Dreaming

I just love it!

For non-French speakers :
The demonstraters’ posters say : “More CO2!” “More Cancers for our kids!” “SUVs for all” “Leave Kyoto!” “Bhopal it’s not that bad!” “Less birds more cars!” and in big and yellow, the main banneer : “CO2, I want it!” mimicking the Danone ice-cream brand Gervais slogan “Gervais, j’en veux!”.

They chant “It is fordidden to forbid to pollute!”, “We are here to make sure that the Grenelle for the Environnement [the big environmental brainstorming set up by Sarkozy and happening right now in France] is going to become the Grenelle against the Environnement!” “Yesterday I have been polluting, today I’ll keep polluting!” “Nuclear is a bomb! [meaning it is great] and it is good money for France! Let’s do it nuclear!”. They claim to represent “oil industries”, “chemical industries”, “car industries”, “nuclear lobbyists”, “GMO lovers” who “came to Paris to defend their right to sack the planet”! They had to demonstrate because, “under the pressure from ecologists, the list of infringements to [their] fundamental rights is everyday larger : quotas on CO2 emissions, fishing restrictions, prohibition to use toxic products, drastic anti-polluting norms… and maybe soon a moratorium on GMOs!!” (Late september, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Boorlo announced that there might be a moratorium on GMOs “because we can’t control dissemination, so we won’t take any risk”. It has triggered a tsunami of reactions, good from the left and green parties, unhappy from the agriculture syndicate –and agronomic industries, and embarrassed from the government.)