The earth sings its praises!
The next event on the World Surf League calendar is the very exciting Corona Bali Pro which kicks off in just four short days. Or I mean was the Corona Bali Pro which has officially changed its name to the Corona Bali Protected in order to bring awareness to plastic pollution in our oceans. Press release time!
KERAMAS, Indonesia, May 22, 2018 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — As title sponsor of the WSL’s Bali Pro Championship Tour event, Corona is transforming the previously announced “Corona Bali Pro” and renaming it “Corona Bali Protected.” This name change is aimed at sounding the alarm on one of the biggest threats to the survival of our oceans: marine plastic pollution. It stands for the vision of turning Bali into a pilot project, a blueprint for solving this global environmental issue by implementing the Parley AIR Strategy.
Last May, Corona made an ambitious commitment with Parley for the Oceans to protect 100 islands around the world from marine plastic pollution by 2020. In addition to this commitment, Corona and Parley are now inviting brands of the consumer packaged goods industry to join a task force with the objective of leaving a lasting legacy in Bali’s coastal regions through the implementation of the Parley AIR strategy – Avoid plastic, Intercept plastic debris, and Redesign materials and products.
Totally great, right? So why was my reaction after reading this earth friendly news to chortle? If you were sitting next to me I would have chortled then elbowed you in the shoulder all like “can you believe this silliness, bro?”
What’s my problem? Corona and the World Surf League are doing something good by bringing awareness and practical steps in order to reduce the poison of plastics. They together are trying to be part of the solution but here I am mocking them for it. Is it because I came of age in the 1990s when trying to do anything at all was seen as patently uncool? Generation X. Slacker etc. I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me etc.
Does that explain my rude spirit or am I just a run-of-the-mill asshole?
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Isnt that cute that Dirk ‘The Ziffmeister Ziff’ cares, while his venture capital company still invests in fossil fuel exploration and production on land and in the oceans of the world, but then again Dirk was a director on the board of the Weinstein Company, until a few months ago, so it must be good
I fn ❤️ Coronas. With a lime , are you kidding? So damn goood.
Have you seen the price of limes lately? They cost more than the beer!
The garbage situation in Bali is a disaster.
And it’s mostly because of the locals.
So unless they get their shit together they will end up being buried in in plastic.
It is the producers.
I concur.
Cool that all the competitors will be riding algae foam blanks glassed with bio-epoxy resin as well. Oh, wait….
Little fucking genius.
Well, for once I’m not going to knock wsl or anybody that’s raising awareness for this issue.
It’s a massive problem in some places. It needs attention and needs fixing.
You’re all correct – a few surfers bleating and picking up plastic ain’t going to do shit.
But it’s a start.
It needs Governments to get involved to come up with a way to put in place systems that work for them to deal with this. Education and commitment from local communities.
Here’s one for kiwis and aussies – our recyclable plastics were being shipped back to China and dealt with there. Now they’re not, I have yet to see a comprehensive plan announced from either country of how they will be dealt with now China isn’t taking them.
Germany made it the responsibility of the producers of packaging to ensure it is returned then reused or recycled. 10c for glass bottles and 25c (!!) for big plastic bottles. You see them fucking nowhere. 5c on plastic bottles and you wouldn’t see them anywhere in Bali. 2.5c even. Will it fix everything? Nope. Will it make a massive fuckin change. Totally.
Seriously. If Corona put up $100k to pay people 2c/plastic bottle, that would be a great start.
Yes !
My wifes from Germany and she’s always told me about this being a practical way of approaching the problem.
But it’s how to get the message through to those countries who have zero political will to do anything. Most of them don’t even recognise they have a problem.
So it’s right up there at Government level – where the recognition for the need to do something has to occur.
West Sumbawa had many people collecting plastic bottles, trouble is there is no incentive to pick up any of the other shit. Even the hotels burn the rubbish on the beach directly in front of the resort but not an inch further..
Fuck aussies are arseholes. Including me.
Why – no need to feel like that, mate !
We are entitled fuckers
Well, if you think you’re gonna entitle yourself to my next wave by dropping in, you can piss off.
j/k
mate next ones yours !
Carve it up !
Haaa mate! I’m too lazy and jaded to drop in.
Onya, me too.
Hey, it’s still yours, ya goin ?
All yours mate, go!
what because we are the highest per capita polluters in the World ?
Corona x Village Single Use Plastic Pro has a nice ring to it.
meanwhile.
https://www.afp.com/en/news…
So Kelly won’t hold the record for being the first Olympic Surfing Gold Medalist.
Tonight I will sleep peacefully knowing that Darth Slater has been stopped from being BIG IN JAPAN .
it is a sick burn from señor aguerre for sure!
Kelly hits reef ( taken down by the former emperor of G strings and thongs with a bottle opener )
Is it a better burn than Kelly burning Adriano WITH his wave pool? Maybe!
Signs point to yes!
The real burn is going to be watching Olympic surfing in shit onshore beachbreak. Team Handball featuring Austria and Norway, please. Or a punch in the head.
there’s always beach volleyball, i guess! idk. i don’t have cable, so i never really watch much of the olympics anyway.
Fuck. This is nauseating. Can we please stop developing our “great sport”.
How many times did i tell ever1. But noooooo had to milk the bandwagon. I heard it straight from the ioc.
Cynical as I am.
The IOC will have dished out millions to ISA to grandstand the wonderful sport of surfing. WSL wants to push their pool and have ISA pay for it.
ISA don’t want to pay for it coz they’d rather advance fukkn SUP and nut dragging and god knows what else. “Anything to do with a board, anywhere.”
So who’s gonna build the pool for the Olys – not ISA not WSL. Fuk it – back to the shit onshore crumble it’s likely to be. There’s yer surfn – Olympic style.
ISA – fucken joke.
Fuk who’s gonna want to have that gold medal ? May as well give it to some fin chukka from Brazzo right now. Or wherever. They can hock it off and snort it.
Coz that’s about what it’s gonna be worth. $10 hit of shittiest rush you can buy.
Those ISA wanks have taken the aloha spirit of the Duke and are owning it.
Just like WSL are trying to own it – “Crowning Champions for 40 Years” fuk off.
The common denominator in all of this wank fest is – (gasp) $$$$$$$$$
Surfing as it once was is fucked. Aloha.
Thanks beck.
Totally off subject.(me not you sea m .)
Ode to lost hemorrhoids and run of the mill assholes/rebels.
Farewell old piles
Hello new smiles
But I won’t be preaching
For the mode of anal bleaching.
Will the surfers be riding boards made out of wood ?ps Chas you managed to mention the brand Corona 10 times in the above beer ad . Not really a 6 pack or 1/2 a slab so should I buy 6 or 12 or does Corona come in packs of 10 now ?
Beer gone decimal? We’re all fucked now.
Maybe I’ll buy a bakers dozen ?
Coming from the WSL and an alcohol-selling company owned by faceless multinational conglomerates… gosh, I just can’t figure out why you could possibly be cynical.
…and those preachy Corona Parley ad’s mire the otherwise flawless WSL product. Who is that pear shaped Brazilian female actor so enamoured with the ocean? Since when did ‘earnest’ sell beer?
Given the utterly insane rate at which the WSL and its athletes pump carbon into the atmosphere, maybe they figure if it gets hot enough the plastics will melt away?
I wonder if Corona are aware that the WSL still keeps endorsing that the surfers ride , disposable toxic surfboards?
It’s ironic with all the bullshit about saving the oceans and planet , that surfers/WSL are actually using antiquated toxic manufacturing process’s with 60 year old technology!
Well, at least they got rid of the desk. Imagine the carbon footprint from lugging that fukker around the world!