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A NSFW warning would have been nice.
Ironically, suicide is considered very environmentally friendly.
Only if you hang yourself, preferably with hempen rope. Using a car is wasteful. So is cremation, so make sure you’re buried in a sack-cloth bag and not so deep such that your body can’t be recycled.
On a serious note, it’s very hard to kill yourself via asphyxiation with a modern car. Between low emissions and the ECU dealing with poor air quality, you have to really, really try. Conservely, I’ve met two classic-car guys who inadvertently nearly killed themselves working on their rides in a confined space.
To anyone who thinks emissions regulations aren’t a good thing: have you smelled the air at a classic car show?
Ironically, suicide is considered very environmentally friendly.
Only if you don’t take out a baby animal on the way out.
John
Where exactly do you work that the above video would be considered NSFW?
In terms of suicide and environmentally friendliness has anyone ever considered the impact of breathing on global warming? I mean going from 1 billion to 6 billion in less than 200 years has to be putting alot of CO2 into the air (not the mention the methane). So yes suicide would have its merit in that sense I guess.
That is brilliant. I bet Toyota has nothing to do with that video (a real ad agency would not have used a real Florida license plate), but wish they could have.
Not sure what the NSFW bit is, except a side shot of a nude man curled up and crying in a shower. You can’t see any naughty bits.
In terms of suicide and environmentally friendliness has anyone ever considered the impact of breathing on global warming
I can’t tell if you’re serious or not, so I’ll respond as if you are.
Breathing has no effect on Global Warming because it’s not a release of unlocked carbon. Think about it this way: over the past several million years, tons of carbon have been “locked” into the earth in the form of fossil fuel deposits. We’ve been unlocking this carbon and releasing it into the atmosphere. Breathing doesn’t unlock any new carbon, it just changes the balance a little, and plant life can cope with that and change it back.
This is the reason for biofuels: that you’re not adding net-new carbon to the atmosphere because you’re just performing state changes on existing carbon. The problem with biofuels is scale. Oh, and idiot ideas like corn ethanol that actually use more carbon to produce than they offset.
It’s also the point behind carbon sequestration: the hope there is that you can put carbon into the ground and get it out of circulation. This has some promise, but it’s harder, less effective and more costly than simple conservation
I’ll grant you methane as an issue, but decaying plant matter would do the same thing.
yankinwaoz :
September 16th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I bet Toyota has nothing to do with that video
Of course not. :P
You can tell it’s an amateur video from the first few seconds.
Not sure what the NSFW bit is, except a side shot of a nude man curled up and crying in a shower.
Just the same, it’s not like you’d call all your co workers over to have a look.
Actually I was serious, at what point does the population size change that equilibrium, especially considering that the population is heavily condensed into cities and the general degredation that the population causes (not including unlocking carbon). There is evidence that the little ice age was directly influenced by the decimation of the indian empires in the americas and the reforestation that took place afterwards (the forests pulled more carbon than was being produced and global temps dropped), at what population point would the opposite happen?
psarhjinian :
September 16th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Ironically, suicide is considered very environmentally friendly.
Only if you hang yourself, preferably with hempen rope. Using a car is wasteful. So is cremation, so make sure you’re buried in a sack-cloth bag and not so deep such that your body can’t be recycled.
I think the point was that any method of suicide is environmentally friendly because it reduces future carbon and environmental impact to zero.
Ironically I find it fairly easy to associate the Prius with suicide.
Actually I was serious, at what point does the population size change that equilibrium, especially considering that the population is heavily condensed into cities and the general degredation that the population causes (not including unlocking carbon).
The problem caused by too many people is resource usage. In our case, that’s defoliation and soil erosion, mass-scale carbon unlocking (greenhouse), ocean chemistry changes (this is a nasty one that people tend to not think about) and atmospheric chemistry (ozone, acid rain).
Just cramming a lot of people in one place doesn’t have that much effect. The biodensity of the rainforests is much higher than any city, and what tends to happen is that photosynthetic organisms and oxygen breathers proliferate in common until they hit a balance.
What people do is actively destructive and prevents that balance from being reached because we just keep tipping the scales. Worse, it can transcend the biosphere’s ability to balance and can work it’s way up to chemical and fluid dynamics. What we’re doing to the oceans (acidification) is going to hurt us far more than the effects of GHG on land ever will, and it’s happening because we’re not reigning in the distortion.
There is evidence that the little ice age was directly influenced by the decimation of the indian empires in the americas and the reforestation that took place afterwards (the forests pulled more carbon than was being produced and global temps dropped), at what population point would the opposite happen?
The ability of forests to suck up carbon is limited. One of the more telling indicators is in ice core samples: athmospheric carbon levels have never fluctuated as much and as quickly as they have since industrialization, and we haven’t seen levels of ocean acidification like we have now. We’re well on the way to being beyond what the biosphere can cope with. You’d have to plant a heck of a lot of trees to fix this.
Getting the population down would help, but so would conserving resources and not making things worse.
Yeah, suicide is hilarious until it happens to someone close to you. If Toyota was behind this ad, for that reason alone I am very, very hesitant to buy one ever.
It’s obviously not a Toyota advertisement. The most obvious thing missing was a shot of the dashboard clock showing the passage of time. Just how long was he in the car?
But at first, I thought it might be a Geico “Cave Man” commercial.
I have known two people who committed suicide. It’s a terrible thing; not funny at all. The person who commits it leaves his loved ones with as much or more sadness and pain than he himself had. It’s hard for those remaining to move on; many cannot. And it’s impossible for them to understand.
That said, I found the video to be more of a music video and not so much a car commercial; as I said, it’s not a Toyota advert.
Besides, the car DOES produce emissions. Low, yes, but that engine will run when the hybrid battery drops to about 40% SOC; and that rarely takes more than 5-10 minutes even with the air conditioning turned off.
And no gas engine will run without producing SOME noxious poisonous fumes. Just sayin’.
“But at first, I thought it might be a Geico “Cave Man” commercial.” Exactly. sorry to say i do not like the caveman and almost did not watch the video. Glad i did.