{"id":59944,"date":"2021-10-17T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T13:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59944"},"modified":"2021-10-17T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T13:23:42","slug":"to-dirty-it-on-how-for-profit-news-obscured-william-shatners-climate-emergency-warning-after-suborbital-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59944","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTo Dirty it!\u201d On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner\u2019s Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"featured-image-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juancole.com\/images\/2021\/10\/to-dirty-it-on-how-for-profit-ne-750x422.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juancole.com\/images\/2021\/10\/to-dirty-it-on-how-for-profit-ne-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.juancole.com\/images\/2021\/10\/to-dirty-it-on-how-for-profit-ne-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.juancole.com\/images\/2021\/10\/to-dirty-it-on-how-for-profit-ne-378x213.jpg 378w, https:\/\/www.juancole.com\/images\/2021\/10\/to-dirty-it-on-how-for-profit-ne.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/div>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-meta\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2021\/10\/obscured-emergency-suborbital.html?fbclid=IwAR3bTD46hH6_2wFqZB0Yi63UY1kjXGf-i6WYUuZGKtOXuQB-0WapWtD-bJ0\">\u201cTo Dirty it!\u201d On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner\u2019s Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\">Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) \u2013 On Wednesday, pop culture icon William Shatner, <i>Star Trek<\/i>\u2018s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, explained the enormity of seeing the earth from a suborbital flight on Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepherd space craft. Part of what he said when he returned from 66 miles up got lost in all of the news reports I\u2019ve seen, and it is the most important part.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Here\u2019s a portion of what\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/13\/william-shatner-speech-to-jeff-bezos-after-blue-origin-launch.html\">CNBC printed<\/a>\u00a0in what they alleged was the complete transcript of Shatner\u2019s remarks:<\/p>\n<ul>\u201cI mean, the little things, the weightlessness, and to see the blue color whip by and now you\u2019re staring into blackness. That\u2019s the thing. This covering of blue is this sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue around that we have around us. We think \u2018oh, that\u2019s blue sky\u2019 and suddenly you shoot through it all of a sudden, like you whip a sheet off you when you\u2019re asleep, and you\u2019re looking into blackness \u2013 into black ugliness. And you look down, there\u2019s the blue down there, and the black up there, and there is Mother Earth and comfort and \u2013 is there death? Is that the way death is?\u201d<\/ul>\n<p>But here\u2019s the crucial takeaway, the last phrase of which is omitted by CNBC:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\u201cWhat I would love to do is communicate as much as possible the jeopardy, the moment you see how vuln\u2013 the vulnerability of everything. It so small. This air which is keeping us alive is thinner than your skin. It\u2019s a sliver. It\u2019s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe. It\u2019s negligible, this air. Mars doesn\u2019t have it. It\u2019s so thin. And to dirty it\u2026\u201d<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe jeopardy . . . And to dirty it!\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>To fill this precious atmosphere, unique in our solar system, with clouds of burned coal dust and with greenhouse gases, Shatner says, is . . . what? Despicable. Unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo Dirty it!\u201d On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner\u2019s Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) \u2013 On Wednesday, pop culture icon William Shatner, Star Trek\u2018s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, explained the enormity of seeing the earth from a suborbital flight on Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepherd space craft. Part of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[140,9411,11930,496,638,2416,31982],"class_list":["post-59944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate","tag-informed-comment","tag-juan-cole","tag-mainstream-media","tag-pollution","tag-space","tag-william-shatner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59946,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944\/revisions\/59946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}