We had some time to spare before our first event today, so John and I decided to check out the organization and country booths that we hadn't visited yet. One of them, the country of Mauritania (which I had not heard of before), was giving out cool hats that say "Mauritania Addresses Climate Change." So above is a picture of us rocking those hats and supporting Mauritania!
Then, we came across Bellona's booth, where I found a funny handout that I thought you guys might find entertaining. I'll type out what it says in case you can't enlarge the picture.
"Hi, my name is Norway and I am a petroleum addict.
I've tried it all: vaseline, kerosene, gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. I've even tried natural gas. Now I'm ready for the twelve steps to recover from my addiction and embrace the green future.
12 Steps to Recovery:
1. We admit that we have a problem. We had let ourselves be dependent on the great power of petroleum.
2. We admit that our intoxication of petroleum has resulted in a petro hangover.
3. We admit that our petroleum addiction has negative consequences for our surroundings and loved ones. Consequences such as poverty, destruction and despair.
4. We admit that our prosperous ecomony based on oil extraction will not last, and that we need to invest both manpower and money in renewable energy sources, such as algae, bio mass, solar, wind, geo thermal, tidal, and wave power.
5. We admit that we are afraid of a life without petroleum. However, we realize that a life with petroleum has no future.
6. We realize that our future has to be green.
7. We admit that we have enojoyed wasting large amounts of precious energy. Improving out energy efficiency will ease the burden on the environment, our economy, and our natural resources.
8. We choose to protect Lofoten and the Arctic environment and to manage our fisheries in a sustainable manner.
9. We commit to good green solutions, such as electric cars. We commit to the joy of plugging in and driving cleaner and cheaper.
10. We choose to fly through the landscape with windpowered high speed trains, instead of being airborne.
11. We realize that carbon capture and storage is part of the solution for remaining emissions and for future carbon negative energy porduction.
12. Having received this long overdue wake up call, we commit to carrying this message to other petroholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
So yeah, a little cheesy at times, but overall I thought it was a clever way to interest others in the issue by relating it to a well known disease like addiction. A lot of these points are ones that I consider, like our anxiety about committing to taking the time to plug in an electric car instead of fueling up on gas whenever we feel like it. Clearly, the U.S. could benefit from a similar intervention and rehab.
Then, we came across Bellona's booth, where I found a funny handout that I thought you guys might find entertaining. I'll type out what it says in case you can't enlarge the picture.
"Hi, my name is Norway and I am a petroleum addict.
I've tried it all: vaseline, kerosene, gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. I've even tried natural gas. Now I'm ready for the twelve steps to recover from my addiction and embrace the green future.
12 Steps to Recovery:
1. We admit that we have a problem. We had let ourselves be dependent on the great power of petroleum.
2. We admit that our intoxication of petroleum has resulted in a petro hangover.
3. We admit that our petroleum addiction has negative consequences for our surroundings and loved ones. Consequences such as poverty, destruction and despair.
4. We admit that our prosperous ecomony based on oil extraction will not last, and that we need to invest both manpower and money in renewable energy sources, such as algae, bio mass, solar, wind, geo thermal, tidal, and wave power.
5. We admit that we are afraid of a life without petroleum. However, we realize that a life with petroleum has no future.
6. We realize that our future has to be green.
7. We admit that we have enojoyed wasting large amounts of precious energy. Improving out energy efficiency will ease the burden on the environment, our economy, and our natural resources.
8. We choose to protect Lofoten and the Arctic environment and to manage our fisheries in a sustainable manner.
9. We commit to good green solutions, such as electric cars. We commit to the joy of plugging in and driving cleaner and cheaper.
10. We choose to fly through the landscape with windpowered high speed trains, instead of being airborne.
11. We realize that carbon capture and storage is part of the solution for remaining emissions and for future carbon negative energy porduction.
12. Having received this long overdue wake up call, we commit to carrying this message to other petroholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
So yeah, a little cheesy at times, but overall I thought it was a clever way to interest others in the issue by relating it to a well known disease like addiction. A lot of these points are ones that I consider, like our anxiety about committing to taking the time to plug in an electric car instead of fueling up on gas whenever we feel like it. Clearly, the U.S. could benefit from a similar intervention and rehab.
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