Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; James Cameron, the film director who brought us Avatar and Titanic, is furious people have not “woken up” about climate change.
James Cameron on the Climate Crisis: ‘People Need to Wake the F–k Up’
By MATT DONNELLY
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 6:00AM PTThis power couple has been championing environmentalist causes for decades. Suzy Amis Cameron has led a charge toward plant-based eating in efforts to reduce the dramatic carbon footprint that meat protein creates. James Cameron, the filmmaker behind classics such as “Titanic,” has woven climate-conscious themes into franchises like “Avatar.” He tells Variety the forthcoming three sequels will do the same.
The two are investors in the plant-based company Verdient Foods and contribute to numerous eco-causes, including Global Green and Oceana. Cameron does not mince words in sharing his thoughts on apathy about the climate crisis.
“People need to wake the f–k up,” the Oscar winner says. “We’re going the wrong direction as fast as possible. I like to say that we’re like Thelma and Louise. We’re driving straight toward the canyon at 90 miles per hour with the radio cranked up and the top down.”
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Read more: https://variety.com/2019/film/news/james-cameron-avatar-suzy-cameron-climate-change-crisis-1203329360/
The rest of the article is kind of a plug for James and his wife Suzy’s plant based food products.
Obviously I don’t agree with James Cameron’s dire climate pessimism, but as a fellow businessman I understand how frustrating it can be when people don’t rush to embrace your new product.
So here’s a thought Cameron; if you send me a sample of your Verdient Foods plant based food products, I’ll write a review for WUWT, and help you reach an audience beyond the vegan liberal climate worriers you currently appear to target.
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Get woke, go broke. Sooner the the better, IMHO.
“People need to wake the f–k up,” the Oscar winner says.
Sorry Jimmy, I’m awake but I am not buying into WOKE. You Grifters are padding your off shore investment accounts by perpetrating this flim flam on the taxpaying citizen with a massive assist from the Public Schools systems and University safe zones. The saddest part is the hoax is funded by the Central Government using our money. And you are accepting it to amass obscene amounts of personal wealth.
Thank you. Now I don’t have to comment.
Wait . . .
..even the people that should be smart…are stupid
Precisely so Latitude. I learned many years ago that those who conceive of themselves as being “intelligent” or “Intellectuals” whether consciously or not, are the easiest to mislead or convince that they can be even more knowing if they but accept the latest extensions of the ideas that they already believe. As long as the new idea is labeled with the same verbiage that is presently reverberating in their private and social echo chamber, they will not only never question it, but actively defend in viciously.
Yes it is a symptom of fascism and brainwashing. Fixed in their beliefs in things that the realities of life deny them, they are the easiest to fool. History bears testimony to this fact in the untold numbers who defended their reasoning as to why they should comply with authority and march to their individual deaths.
But alas Latitude,.. you said it in more concise language. For that I thank you and beg your pardon for my drawn out life long account summarizing my hard-won lessons.
Well, Taleb is an acquired taste, but he does have something relevant to say about this.
He calls them “IYI”: Intellectual, Yet Idiot”.
In this case, most people in Hollywood can’t even be credited with that first part, as all they’ve done is won the genetic lottery and smoozed.
In my personal experience, if a taste has to be “acquired”, it wasn’t worth the effort.
I thought so too until I found some pretty good Cabernet Sauvigon…
I beg to differ. Today I am partial to black coffee, bourbon, and beer. Each involved a bit of a learning curve. I am glad I made the effort.
Cheers.
I’m with JoeShaw on all three!
The smarter you are, the better you are at lying to yourself.
Eric,
Food for thought…
The Camerons could always go with “product placement” in their movies.
The viewers’ suspension of disbelief would work in favor of vegan dialogue.
Vertical integration Hollywood style…
He produces flapdoodle for the mind and she produces flapdoodle for the stomach.
A friend of mine works in the investment sector.
Part of her job, and often not a pleasant one, is having to deal with the spouses of the rich and famous who have WAY too much time on their hands (you can only vacation and lunch so much), WAY too much money, yet feel the need to “create”.
If she’s lucky, its just a restaurant or clothing store that will have 15 minutes of (bought) fame then close in 6 months for a loss that will go on the spouses tax bill for a credit.
If not…its explaining to someone who cannot be told “no” that Dumb New Idea Of the Week is a bad investment.
Its too bad she’s too honest to take a bit for herself…
I was thinking, “This from the guy who rips off Ferngully and the Smurfs for his brilliant movie ideas???”
An ersatz Hexus or Gargamel would have been an improvement over the plot we got, “the-totally-not-US-army-wants-blueskin-alien-superoil”.
Love that olde world word “flapdoodle” !
Never much of a veggie person anyway but these clowns give me good reason to stick with my meat and potatoes diet.
I’d LOVE to come to James Cameron’s aide, except my favorite tavern just began a new marketing scheme of their own. It’s called Burger Tuesday, and the hook is that for the whole day every Tuesday, you can get a nice juicy burger and a side for $5. But in my defense, James, I ordered a salad for my side, so that ought to count for something. I also financially supported the dairy states by making mine a CHEESE BURGER, and John Kerry and his wife by adding Heinz Ketchup.
Ah, the invisible hand… it’s amazing.
Is there any industry that represents a more profligate emission of carbon than the entertainment industry and those who profit from it? I’d be more impressed if James Cameron was agitating for the shutdown of Hollywood instead of trying to make more money off of the crisis industrial complex.
BINGO! Massive hypocrisy, once again.
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
H. L. Menken
…but, their fickleness is another issue entirely.
Rocket scientist.
I have been a Mencken fan since 1972.
Do you have a reference for your quote?
Long ago I think Mencken’s biographer or the custodian of Hilo’s papers said, either the quote you wrote
Or the same quote with “taste” instead of intelligence
Could not be found in his writings.
I am 66 now and much of what I loved is
beginning to fade.
Thanks for the quote, I would appreciate any
Direction as to which of his works contain it.
I always thought this quote (with ‘taste’ as the alternative to ‘intelligence’) was attributable to P T Barnum, of Barnum & Bailley and Ringling Circus fame. Never heard it as a H L Mencken aphorism (although he had so many other worthy beauties).
I just googled “did h.l. Mencken write no one…
It brought up a nice article from Day In Quotes
Suggesting the quote you wrote was a paraphrase of what Mencken wrote.
I am sure you must know Hemingway wrote “too many
Young men get their likes and dislikes from
Mencken” or some such
I think that was in The Sun Also Rises
But maybe not.
For all it’s flaws Google is splendid as a memory
Adjunct. In the old days I had to pull out the books
And go searching.
Thanks again for the quote.
And thanks to Mr. Watts for a splendid website.
So, he is more pissed that his business isn’t going so well, and that’s why we need to wake the F up? If he was really angry about the environment, he wouldn’t have even mentioned his business. He is worth 800 million https://www.raphaelsaadiq.com/biography-wiki-age-height-net-worth/film-director-producer/james-cameron-2019-2020-2021-2022/ He can easily spend 500 million to regrow new forests, or for clean water projects… 300 million can’t be spent easily when you already have everything you need…
Yes – but that’s HIS money.
None of the prescriptions offered up by these socialists Alarmists would even BEGIN to bring emissions down to their ‘Zero Carbon” target levels. E.g. Air Travel isn’t
being BANNED. Air Travel would need to cease to reach their goals…or a VERY EXPENSIVE carbon neutral aviation fuel brought online (requiring dozens of GigaWatt nuclear plants to manufacture for the US alone)…and these nut jobs are blocking nuclear power (because they don’t want a technical fix…it has to be a Socialist fix).
Their propaganda doesn’t hold together in a cohesive story AT ALL:
Emissions + Weather Trends + Socialist Plans + Silence on Asian and African emissions + Human Extinction….DOESN’T ADD UP.
…and human activity doesn’t produce enough CO2 to change anything: only 3.4% of all CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. And, as far as the US goes, we only produce ~0.5% of the total CO2.
So, “Zero carbon”? Hogwash!
“…because they don’t want a technical fix…it has to be a Socialist fix…”
I have never heard it put that way before, but that really does capture their mindset.
May I suggest the Cameron burger? It has blue meat and iceberg lettuce.
Sacred cows make the best cheeseburgers!
Funny the lead omits Cameron’s The Terminator and puts up a couple out of extinction Rebellion’s psychedelic founder and promoter Gail Bradbrook’s hallucinations. Mick Jagger got on that bandwagon at the same Venice Film Festival.
And then to write a review for food?
Looks like a promo.
I forgot he did Terminator, that’s all…
People like Cameron and his Hollywood crowd really stink, don’t they.
Maybe James could offer just one sign of the impending apocalypse? Not just the claptrap you get by osmosis hanging around other Hollywood elitist d*ckwads?
If China were Zero Emissions, CO2 levels would cease to increase and their perceived problem would evaporate.
It’s all China’s fault!!!
Eric, I think if Cameron sends you something to try out you definitely should not eat it.
I’m serious. I like food, if it tastes nice I’ll write something positive about it. But sadly I don’t think he will take up my offer.
im amused that a few of the food advisorys have stepped up and said just because its “vegan” doesnt mean its good;-)
seems theres a fair bit of fatsn salts thrown in to many and the highly processed grains and Gmodded ones plus Gmod yeasts etc are a putoff to many vegans as well
our local store has cut the price to HALF and still couldnt sell their beyond burgers
(Id label them as BE-GONE burgers”
I wouldnt even buy them for chookfood
you KNOW its a dud idea when fat albert the goracle invests heavily
everything hes touched turned to crap fairly soon
he however will sellout just beforehand and profit as usual.
Hey OZ, when they make brocolli out of hamburger I’ll consider alternatives.
A turd that tastes like ice cream is still a turd.
Lab gunk that tastes like beef is still lab gunk. 😐
Humans need clean animal protein for their brain to function. Plant based protein results in dim wits. Their loss of IQ enables this sad outcome. Almost every person who lives beyond 100 years old eat red meat. Unless one has two stomachs, red meat is very important. Fake meat is loaded with toxins. Sold to college educated (mind controlled) Stupid Fools. These vegetable people, for the most part look sick to me. They need everyone to be as dumb as they are so we can live in FAKE harmony. God put animals on earth to be EATTEN. Hi fat diets, no sugar, lead to best quality of life.
Add a continuous and guaranteed source of fluoride salts to their drinking water to go along with their high-fluoride vegan diets and voila – cognitively defunct dimwits.
There actually is a hypothesis floating around that soy formula fed to infants potentially damages their brains due to higher manganese in soy. Manganese in excess is neurotoxic, e.g., Manganese poisoning, manganese madness, BSE, deer wasting disease, etc.
They’ve been feeding soy milk to deer?
Only those in the headlights.
From Psychology Today of all sources –
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/201903/the-brain-needs-animal-fat
Interesting article in spite of some hilarious bloopers. I am never sure what to make of psychologists. I like Jordan Peterson but many other psychologists seem better suited to low concentration departments like art history.
Fact Checking Big Al: “Humans need clean animal protein for their brain to function. Plant based protein results in dim wits.”
Wiki says James Cameron adopted a vegan diet in 2012.
Turning to IMDB… 2013 begins with Aliens “3”, followed by Terminator This and Terminator That, Bighead Terminator 2, Terminator 2 This and Terminator 2 That, Toruk (“inspired by Avatar”), Alita (female cyborg redux of Jason Bourne?), Avatar 2, Avatar 3, Avatar [i: i=4,5,…].
Yup, not much evidence of an original idea since he stopped eating meat, and appears to be stuck in an endless Avatar loop unless you count announcing another True Lies.
We have been speeding, er accelerating, towards a proverbial cliff for over 100 years now – don’t hold your breath for the drop.
If only people would read objective history rather than ideological diatribes, they might realize their actual place in the human timeline and learn to appreciate their privilege. They might learn that they simply need to adapt their culture and lifestyle to adjust for their more sedentary and digitally attached lives in order to save themselves from their self-induced despair.
James Cameron can frack off.
I wonder how big the climate footprint is of his movies? He has pobably produced more CO2 than thousands of people do in their lifetime.
Who is james cameron again? And why should I care what he says? Rhetorical questions…. Meh.
Love it when a Hollywood Elite gets their panties in a wad because the rest of the population gives them the middle finger. … Hey James …. we don’t want to buy your 5h1t …. try selling us something we’ll pay for …. like maybe another good movie.
From the article: “This power couple has been championing environmentalist causes for decades. Suzy Amis Cameron has led a charge toward plant-based eating in efforts to reduce the dramatic carbon footprint that meat protein creates.”
Cattle are carbon neutral. Activists should stop bothering the cows.
Is there any occupation with a larger carbon footprint than working in Hollywood? When one considers the energy usage to create a film, then the energy of all the folks driving to the theater, and the theater itself, and all the marketing materials, and all the plastic Chinese toys, etc.
Mr Cameron, stand up for the environment and quit Hollwood. Yeah, I know. Crickets from the lefty polluter.
All the while producing something that cannot be eaten, worn or sat in. Most not even worth looking at or listening to.
Why is it that those expressing the most vociferous opinions on climate are the ones absent of any qualifications to do so?? From the Wik article–
“Cameron grew up in Chippawa, Ontario, and attended Stamford Collegiate School in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His family moved to Brea, California in 1971, when Cameron was 17 years old.[22] He dropped out of Sonora High School, then attended Brea Olinda High School to further his secondary education.
Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College, a two-year community college, in 1973 to study physics. He switched to English, then dropped out before the start of the fall 1974 semester.”
So the drop-outs know it all. Seems he thinks that money makes you smart and your opinions worth more, enough to swear at anyone who doesn’t agree with you–even if you vie with that bag-of-hammers for being one of the dumbest creatures on earth. And once again–someone with one of the biggest carbon footprints of all humanity.
“Cameron divides his time between his home in California and his second home in New Zealand, a country he fell in love with when he was filming Avatar.”
I have a simple response to Cameron and his model/actress (5th, just to demonstrate wisdom of choices and dedication to relationships) wife–just STFU until you have some education and experience beyond the production of fantasy and foolish food. Someone who’s air miles alone would pay my entire lifestyle cost has no place swearing at me for not lowering my CO2 production according to their opinions of what I should be allowed.
(Sorry for all that, but this fool just beats even De Caprio for blatant hypocrisy.)
“Why is it that those expressing the most vociferous opinions on climate are the ones absent of any qualifications to do so??”
Yep.
Back when the worst thing in America was how dumb GW Bush was, someone created a list of his fiercest critics in the entertainment industry and how little education they have.
Even the “educated” ones didn’t have a very impressive post-secondary CV, once you stripped off the liberal arts and social sciences grads.
I’ll just leave this here:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sunday-reflection-repeal-the-hollywood-tax-cuts
(As I’m sure the Cameron’s have some sort of tax-dodging charity somewhere involved in thier $800 million portfolio, its a double-whammy…)
We in New Zealand are getting totally sick of the idiot and his stupid ideas about how we should be farming. If he didn’t have so much money there is no way his farm in the southern Wairarapa would have ever got off the ground.
‘Reckon he’ll jess keep farmin’ till she’s all spent’.
Whereabouts in the Wairarapa? I would guess Martinborough…real expensive property there. I used to live in Featherston. Lets hope it’s not a vineyard as he would have to hire helicopters to agitate still, frosty, air.
No. Down Ocean Beach way which makes it so insane trying to grow vegetables down there with the winds and salt air. With the money he has he might make it work to a degree but the average farmer has no chance
I’m reminded of “vanity publishing”, where you pay a publisher to print your book.
In this case, it’s vanity agriculture.
Ah. One more reason, as if I needed another, to not go to the movies.
People need to wake the frack up – about the climate scam, how much it’s costing them, and the danger it poses to democracy.
I should add–if Cameron thinks that humanity is like the ’66 Thunderbird accelerating towards the edge of the Grand Canyon–he should know, he’s the hood ornament.