Environmentalists ask, how can we build wavepools when there are people starving in Africa?
This story might be a little cold given the violence is a few weeks old, but the community of a farming town in north-west France remains torn apart by violent protests over plans to build an American Wave Machines pool that would be bigger than BSR’s in Waco.
Saint-Pere-en-Retz, home to four-and-a-half-thousand, was gonna get itself a seventeen-million American dollar tank, and charge fifty bucks an hour, but has been stymied by environmentalists who weep about the “destruction of the natural heritage and agricultural space, Co2 emissions and the water consumption.”
There have been street riots, cops with batons, pro-pool surfers rolling around in a gang of three tractors and fighting with farmers, old friends turning against each other (one man says he’s scared to leave his house), all sorts of thrills.
It’s been so visually pleasing for news organisations that for a brief moment it even knocked the gilets jaunes protests from French television screens.
A group calling itself Zap la Vague (Zap the Wave) says the joint is an “aberration”, “useless”, that one hour of artificial wave-making uses the equivalent of three weeks water consumption and three weeks electricity for a regular household and, anyway, surfers won’t go near the place.
“This project is absurd. Surfers love the contact with the elements. They will never go to a wave pool which is located only ten minutes away from the ocean,” said a spokesperson. “To its core, surfing is a prayer.”
While the future of the development remains in limbo, do you agree with the central premise of Zap the Wave?
That surfing is a prayer?
And that if you lived on a part of the coast where the waves, mostly, suck, you wouldn’t go near it?
While you ponder, here’s a song for any French speakers that asks another pointed question: how can we build wavepools when there are people starving in Africa and so on?
1. It’s 100% related, as one needs tons of energy for the production of the mentioned goods, meaning as long as we consume the goods we’re somewhat responsible for the energy footprint.
2. The graph, as mentioned, highlights that the drop that you mentioned happening during Bush’s last term was exclusively due to the recession. You said it yourself somewhere during the discussion. Not wrong, not politically motivated, just showing what was.
Figured with his special ops background he already has cased our houses a few times over.
So if someone has a bad life shoot them in the face to make it better? Ooookaaaay … your mission statement is a mouthful and forgets that brevity is the soul of wit.
He must be semi famous ….. he even had an article in Beach Grit ..?
So the graph is wrong? Also you (and I) still heavily rely on other countries resources, but hardly to pretend to be “clean and green”, but just to have cheap and convenient stuff. Pretty much every piece of plastic we own or use is manufactured in China, all our clothing in South East Asia, shitloads of agricultural products from Africa and South America. No green-washing, just our good old “western” lifestyle.
Goddess how I missed you. Where the fuck is Scorn?!
Oh snap. My favorite album of all time. Every song on there is great, and Ambush in the Night is probably the best song, every, by anyone. Nice one, GOAT.
Well, the other guaranteed source. Solar will work better on smaller scales, in regionally appropriate areas. The real deal would be nuclear fusion for mass power but we aren’t there yet and probably won’t be before our time is gone.
Well until we look at farming practices and deforestation and now with permafrost thawing we are in trouble. 50% of humans near coast. Why not tidal power? Moon moves water for free. We put turbines in water. How to protect sea life is of course an issue.
You know it.
Rising until 2007 and the dropping abruptly, maybe the recession was just an elaborate plan to cut emissions.
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Don’t forget all the collateral children we shot in Iraq – that was a huge drop in CO2 after they stopped breathing! bush had a great carbon reduction plan !
Well the latter was caused by the recession. But Obama at end of day was really not that aggressive on going after fossil fuels. What are your thoughts on the windmills and solar panels in your neck of the woods? Seems a no brainer to me.
Sure thing Uncle. Missed you. We have a Scorn sighting yet?
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if you cunts would just learn to foil, you wouldn’t need wave pools… Kooks! #foil4life
I don’t like hippies.
We are an acquired taste.
Q: How many hippies can you fit in a VW van?
A: One more. And a dog.
Q: What did the hippie couch surfer say when asked to finally leave?
A: Namaste. (Nah, Imma stay).
you end getting a new board?
Used 6 foot 3 thruster epoxy only ridden a few times. 2.75 thick so more an old man board with some looseness for occasional chest to head days. Been pushing my 3 yr old son on a boogie and that’s keeping me jazzed. When r u in water next?
everyday day after work I have a shower
The pinnacle of Western industrial life in one sentence. Or as Lightning McQueen says, “Living the dream, Mater.”
I am very neatly greased wheel in the gears of the docile suburban engine. Until I have a few runs.
I am a very neatly greased wheel, quietly spinning away in the docile suburban engine. Until I have a couple of rums
“quietly spinning away in the docile suburban engine.” Nice one. Which also explains muscle cars, viagra, and VALs.
Yea I knew that France had a high percentage of nuclear power. I feel like it was a good solution to all the carbon emissions until Fukushima happened. I guess each country needs to decide what an acceptable level of risk is. IMHO. Looks to me like that contraption that occy has could probably run on Guinness Stout.
Problem is atmosphere and ice caps are global commons. Acceptable risk would be the Holocene, and it’s done. Amazon rainforest is on fire right now. Crazy times.
You are right, it would take a global effort, not just one country to make much change in the direction that it is going now. Doesn’t do much good if France is at 20% fossil fuels when the rest of the world doesn’t give a shit. Nuclear power though is a hard sell to a lot of people considering the long term risk involved.
James Lovelock was full nuclear for this reason.
I think the answer is to have battery powered personal transport, like battery powered bikes etc and nuke power combined with wind and solar, if you can somehow eliminate some kind of human error screw up that will cause a disaster.
To scale up that many batteries would deplete rare earth metals right?
Geology is one class I didn’t take.
I’d like to solve world hunger by dropping birth control over all the red states – people who voted against their own interests are starving there too it’s not just Africa
The only way to mitigate the harm is if American Wave Machines lobby to replace as many republican politicians with democratic politicians who’ll strengthen Obama era environmental protections.
Cornish Pasty’s v Devon Zombies …. ?