It’s not hard to find something silly to catch eco snuff film producers 10:10 doing these days. It’s so easy to do, it’s almost a guilty pleasure.
Speaking of which, readers may recall when I called out Franny the founder on some hypocrisy over emissions cuts, denouncing air travel, and “blueberries not in season” coexisting on the same page:
I pointed out that the blueberries have to be flown into the UK. Oops. Then somebody didn’t like that, and signed me up as a supporter. That meant calling them out to remove me. Double oops. Then it was discovered a whole bunch of the signups were bogus, and 20,000 plus supporters disappeared overnight. Triple oops. Then, the whole silly story got picked up in the UK by the Telegraph and by the Herald Sun in Australia. Oops again.
Tonight, after the “global day of doing”, I thought I’d have a look to see if anything changed on the 10:10 UK website. Wow did it ever! They deleted the whole UK team from public view.
It used to be that you could navigate to this page using the website menu system:
http://www.1010global.org/uk/about/inside/team
That’s where I found Franny’s page on her need for blueberries.
But it is gone from the menu now, you can’t get there from here:
http://www.1010global.org/uk/about
The page is still there, and the navigation indicator shows the menu path you would take, but the click path has been scuttled from the left hand menu:
They hid the shame of those guilty pleasures that each team member has, like imported wine transported from the other side of the world in New Zealand. It’s no biggie, just 11,682 miles (18,800 km) and certainly justifiable when you take public transportation in London, right?
But, unless you know where to look, the bios on the entire UK team and the guilty pleasure things have been removed from general public view by taking them out of the website menu system.
Yep, it was the blueberries wot dun it. Heh.
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You missed the other gem for Franny:
10:10 Plan : Not flying to America and Australia to launch my climate movie.
Yet she definetly went to the American launch…..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ageofstupid/3943242307/in/set-72157622430257280/
This post is mean spirited and beneath you, Anthony Watts.
But verrrrrry funny.
Nice choice John H. If Maddy ever visits the province that produces her guilty pleasure I’ll happily take her on a vineyard tour and introduce her to some other labels.
AJB –
“sea change in the UK” – not likely:
11 Oct 2010: Guardian: Mark Sweney: Government’s £6m climate change ads cleared
Ofcom has cleared a controversial £6m government ad campaign on climate change, which featured images of the UK wracked by floods and drought, after more than 500 complaints that it was a form of political advertising that broke the broadcasting code…
The complainants to Ofcom argued that the TV ad, which featured a father telling his daughter a scary bedtime story based on the impact of climate change, broke broadcast rules banning political advertising.
According to the Communications Act, the government is allowed to run advertising of a public service nature, such as warnings about obesity or drink driving, but is not allowed to run political ads that aim to “influence public opinion on a matter of public controversy”.
However, the Communications Act does allow exceptions for advertisements which qualify as being of a “public service nature”, such as those promoting healthy eating, armed forces recruitment, tax self assessment and road safety.
Ofcom noted that there is “ongoing and polarised” debate on climate change but that there is a “broad level of consensus across the major political parties”….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/11/government-climate-change-ad
reminder:
ACTONCO2 “Bedtime Stories” TV advertisement, October 2009
Drawing attention to the tentennie situation is valuable in my view.
If the tentennies were sincere and mildly practical, they would set up a commune, grow their own food, and leave everyone else alone.
As they don’t seem to have set up a commune and left everyone else alone, I am drawing my own conclusions.
Are any of the people on “the team” aged over 40? Doesn’t look like it from the photo. Certainly there is not much experience to be found on the 10:10 team. Perhaps if they would listen to their elders they would know some history and not repeat the mistakes that others have made. But they have no elders on their team to speak to them. No wonder they are blundering fools.
It’s not hard to find something silly to catch eco snuff film producers 10:10 doing these days. It’s so easy to do, it’s almost a guilty pleasure.
Whatever else it is, rubbing their hypocritical noses in their own dung is a duty!
“REPLY: …But after this, I can’t imagine they’d want to do anything else to call attention to themselves. So, it will probably fade away quickly, much like the Catlin expedition.” – Anthony
Catlin who?
Oh dear, I bought fair trade, organic honey from Palestinian bee keepers, am I in line to be blown up? Maybe my granddaughters, 4 and 2, who will surely get these bad habits from me? I live in California, maybe I will suffer a double penalty :-[…
pat wrote:
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_16305629?nclick_check=1
“While the immediate point of the 10-10-10 projects was to make a practical
difference, another was to send a political message, 350.org founder Bill
McKibben said in a statement. “When they put down their shovels, many will
pick up their cell phones to call their leaders and say, ‘We’re getting to
work. What about you?’ ””
These guys use cellphones? What a waste of resources. They should reduce CO2 emissions and use public phones when calling their local reps. Remember, members of the eco-community, do your duty and reduce your emissions. Buy local produce, do not travel long distances or use airliners, do not buy products that are shipped from overseas on carbon emitting ships, planes or inter-state diesel trucks. Do not buy anything made of oil. This includes pharmaceuticals and anything made of plastic or uses lubricants. Do not marry. Do not have children. Both are wasteful and use valuable resources.
Reduce your CO2 footprint.
Reserve space in your local community cave.
You know it makes sense.
This message brought to you by “r u a hypocrite”
It reminds me of an eco-concious relative of mine who a few years ago used to supply his mother with “bio-degradeable” detergent every month by driving it to her house – a round trip of eighty miles!
pat says:
October 11, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Bedtime stories: Ebeneezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim all over again.
Should be Tenatennies IMHO.
Here you go Anthony, the real red button Franny should have stuck with…..
http://www.webworksllc.com/I_Like_You.cfm
So they have become “Un-persons”? Who are actually the denialists here in all this?
Proud to be from the land producing Sauvignon Blanc for Maddy. I get excellent quality Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc for NZD8.99 a bottle at my nearby supermarket (that’s about USD6.73 or GBP4.23 at today’s rates). We have good blueberries too, but I don’t know if they reach Franny’s table.
The idea that air travel and air transport are evil is one of the wackiest ideas of the eco-movement. I fly (when I do so) because it is the cheapest, quickest and most energy-efficient way of getting myself from A to B. Ditto for the wine and fruit on Franny’s and Maddy’s tables. They have nothing to be guilty about. If they did a detailed cost and energy audit (I am not sure such a thing is possible, but I believe some have tried), they might find that the locally produced wine and food takes more energy and fossil fuels to produce than the imported stuff. That’s one reason it’s more expensive.
All the best.
Uhhh … guys. Sorry to disappoint all of you, but their “Guilty Pleasures” are still there. You have to click the “Read more” link on the left underneath their bios. They just hid it a little better.
http://www.1010global.org/uk/about/inside/team/maddy
I still think they are a bunch of nutjobs and hypocrites though.
REPLY: Yes, that’s been that way with the “read more” pulldown since day one. But the point being made is that the “insider” page is missing from the “about” menu. You can only get there if you know the URL, not by menu. – Anthony
Breathe deeply. Try and stay calm.
Whilst this blog is falling about laughing at the hypocrisy of Franny’s out of season blueberries or Maddy’s NZ wine, you should note that these are GUILTY pleasures. That is, things that you know you shouldn’t do and which therefore make you feel guilty. In the context of an eco-fanatic website the only logically permissible entries under ‘guilty pleasures’ would be environmental ‘misdeeds’.
They know the food miles involved in their pleasures: that is why they are ‘guilty’ about it.
All this talk of hypocrisy is therefore missing the point. Just think of the eco-religious fervour that is implicit in the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’ and the rather creepy public ‘confessions’ of failings by the tentenners. Ecofascism IS a religion.
Let’s save our outrage for the way ecofascist activism has infiltrated educational systems around the world and got kids squandering their days in ‘ignorant goodwill’. Now THAT really gets me hyperventilating.
I should reeeally read more carefully. *facepalm* Crawls under desk.
REPLY: No worries, honest mistake- Anthony
These folks are too young to know how wrong they are. But, life will beat they hell out of them, just like it does everyone else, and they may come to feel ashamed of what they are now. With how what they are doing blew up in their faces the past 2 weeks the lessons may have already started.
Lets pick a few more guilty pleasures from the 10:10 crew:
Lizzie Gillett: “Out of season strawberries or blueberries”. Sounds familiar. Wonder where they come from.
Olivier Blond: “I love immersing myself in long hot baths and read the press to be cold”. Oops. Heating water. Bad.
Rhys Taylor: “Having to drive, although in a shared car, to reach our organic vege garden and orchard in South Canterbury.” Nice for some to get organic veg. Shame about the oil for the car.
JOÃO PEDRO BARRETO: “Music, music, music, all day long, so my stereo and mp3 player spend some KWh every month.” Oops. Power bills. And think of what the neighbours must go through.
Ben Margolis: “Oooo – heating in the winter”. Gee, don’t most of us want that?
Julika Niehaus: “Long hot showers”. More water heating just to shove it down the drain.
Tony Lowes: “High powered cars”. OMG. No shame. No hypocrisy here. Look away!
Daniel Nemet: “I love to travel and therefore I fly often.”. And you preach to the rest of us?
Beth Stratford: “long showers”. See above.
One has to wonder at these people.
Seems self indulgent in itself that they used time and expenses to create these pages describing themselves in the first place. Why does having these bio pages help to save the world? The time and money could have been used somewhere else. Maybe they don’t really feel a real urgency that the world needs saving.
But here I am pointing out things that don’t add up, again, in ‘global warming’.
Does Al Gore still ride in a Gulfstream Jet?
The pronunciation is a no-brainer, but the choice of spelling is tricky – do you emphasize the consumption or the hiding – Berrygate or Burygate ?
@ScottD, 10:48: Peccavi!
Watts: an honest mistake… be at peace my son…
@ScottD: Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa!
And there I was thinking the tentenners were spookily religious…
actually maddy’s sav blanc shipped from nz has less of a carbon footprint than some second grade french wine trucked across from france.