THE MOMENTUM IS REAL.
Surf Ranch swings wide its wooden gates in just five days and I would have to imagine there is great joy in Santa Monica. Oh the event is the very least favorite on the World Surf League Championship Tour hated by surfers and surf fans alike and has been a critical failure with ticket prices slashed to near nothing in an attempt to have someone, anyone, come and watch.
Still, much happiness amongst the World Surf League chiefs as the patented Wall of Positive Noise™ grows stronger and stronger and stronger. So strong, in fact, and sturdy that not one ounce of criticism seeps in. A whole separate universe exists behind it. One where Chief of Sport Jessi Miley-Dyer has saved women and Chief of Executives Erik Logan has saved the earth.
In an Instagram message celebrating his great accomplishment of planting a plant, Logan stated, “One of the principles of the @wsl is sustainability. As a global community of surfers, we are working hard to make sure the ocean stays healthy. One way we do that is by replanting and honoring the land so fresh water flows back into the ocean. To be able to be a small part of something that will be here hundreds of years from now was an incredibly humbling experience.”
While many applauded, one loan critic lobbed a devastating insult asking for an offset of the wild amount of air travel the World Surf League creates along with the volume of single use surfboards and called the planting of a plant “virtue signaling at its best.”
The World Surf League Positive Brigade pounced, responding directly with the message, “Thanks for your comment! We are fully committed to our environmental initiatives and realize sport has the power to inspire, engage and set new trends globally. We aim to reduce first and then offset any unavoidable emissions and have been carbon neutral since 2018, including all Championship Tour staff and athlete travel, and have reduced emissions by 49% since our 2018 baseline. If interested, you can learn more at wsloneocean.org.”
Unbent, the Negative Nelly responded, “Thanks for the reply however I don’t see a few plants make a difference. Good luck with your Winkipop viewing platform.”
Ouch.
But if you could, would you live in a world where you believed all of your own lies? Where you could live life one wave at a time whilst making your passion your life?
Me too.
A rather silly stunt with photo to match. Black hand for Mr Bland. As he conquers land sea and sky for all of our future well being.
“so fresh water flows back into the ocean”
After it’s diverted into our unnecessary carbon fuel driven pool and evaporates.
ah just for the record, all the plants the WSL planted last year at Bells, ah died!
if we remember , there was a WSL greenwashing at Bells with local environmental groups being asked to do a photo , even though they protested that the area/soil that was great for a photo, but the trees would not grow there….now RIP , they are all dead , trees murdered by the WSL……
when I saw Elo’s photo , I thought he was doing an Al Jolsen spin off????
I guarantee that kelp they planted is gone.
Does anyone remember the Werner Herzog documentary ‘Grizzly Man’? Elo takes the cake!
NonJohn loves ELO, microplastics, air spinnies, and boat loads of Brazilian surfers.
Uncle
Unbent, the Negative Nelly responded, “Thanks for the reply however I don’t see a few plants make a difference.”The people pushing/funding all this carbon neutral, sustainable, climate crisis stuff are also the ones that happen to have the largest carbon footprints. Private jets, yachts, multiple homes, manufacturing in countries with lax environmental and human rights laws etc. Power plays under the guise of philanthropy with virtue signaling cheerleaders like this Eli tool.
I luv carbon in all its forms
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Some good genetics came from that part of the world. All the haze lines.
Rough wet trim. Do the final trim when it’s dry.
Honestly, i like my personal to have a little leaf on it. I’m a joint smoker and like to put the leaf in the last third of the roll so I don’t feel like I’m wasting good bud when I toss the roach.
Dispensary, Part 2
A fortress occupied by hip-glee-like weird-eyed youngsters who called me ‘friend.’ (and like always, am nervous ’cause this IS still a drug deal.)
Just give us your driver’s license and “We can answer any of ur ?s…”
Sasquach Sap & Green Dragon = $85 for 7 grams
me: “You are aware that the Prop 65 warning is that this stuff may cause cancer…”
me: “So my ID goes straight into the FBI database?”
My guy is a security guard and delivers an oz for $200
He calls my ‘boss’ and I call him ‘lodi.’
He says he’s got blow…oh NOOOOOOOOOOO!
I saved $140
Especially when the leaves have a good amount of trichomes
I was gonna say that perhaps the Mid-Year Cunt decreases air travel by the CT pros/ entourage… but then I remembered the Challenged Series whereby even MORE peopleses travel around looking to score pointz wot to get up their rank and hope to make more moniez on Teh Champignon-shit Tour. And so the vicious cycle continues.
If the WSL is claiming ‘carbon credits’ and virtual offsets for taxable income, I think they are either A: deluded, or B: as cynical as the rest of the corporations doing the same thing. Carbon tax credits / 3rd party tree planting was a carrot, not a viable realistic solution.
A much bigger and nastier pandemic would be the best solution for anthropogenic carbon emissions.
Mid Year Cunt. That must be Kelly’s new moniker.
When do they unleash the brain-eating amoeba?
After they let the mad cow disease stew in the booth.
“HELLO SURF FANS!
It’s ME! Mad Cow Disease Stu!
I’m here in the booth with Barton Lynch and we’re going to be filling your ear-balls with WHACKADOODLE!”
From my understanding, the Ziff’s (aside from the WSL) also own Queensland Energy Resources which control the Stuart and Macfarlane shale oil deposits in Queensland. There’s a 20 year moratorium on the Macfarlane deposit, due largely to its proximity to the Great Barrier Reef. The moratorium runs out in 2028. If you want to see greenwashing in all its glory, jump on the QER Facebook and check out some of their posts – supporting the local ECO fest etc. I look forward to WSL One Ocean banding behind a “Fight for Great Barrier Reef” campaign in protest of their erm… owners.
In relation to the carbon footprint of the tour, there is so much shit they can do that would make fuck all difference really but would look good on paper. Minimising staff travelling to events would be one. Having the dickhead CEO showing up just to headbutt the athletes before they paddle out doesn’t seem all that necessary
Fucking auto correct!!! Not the AI I’m down with
Beyond clown car shit show… wtf has surfing become? One of the worlds best surfers Bethany Hamilton is black balled by some look who can’t paddle out at 2 foot Hermosa be his of inability and doesn’t want to stain his teeth or dyed ?
Fucking weak Ass pussies can’t take a stand against this bullshit on tour beacon a paycheck…. Surfers? ..nah
I enjoy the environment ceremony of each and every WSL event.
Watching Elo give a speech about surfers saving the world while on que his young workforce of pro surfers stick sticks in the ground is often more entertaining than the entire event.
They should add some dance as well.
Point!