It Strikes Me Funny: Environmental issues may hurt entertainment budgets

Thanks to climate instability and extreme weather events more people may say no to the following entertainment options:

Bigger TVs and stereo systems

Night clubs, theaters and NASCAR races

Eating street meat on days ending in ‘y’

Mad money is getting tighter and no wonder.


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This from The Little Green Handbook:

Records of the Swiss Re insurance group show that the number of natural catastrophes in the world increased from 30 per year in the 1970s (not including the introduction of the wide polyester tie) to 140 per year at the end of the 20th century. Of the worst 40 natural disasters, only six were not related to the weather.

Whereas ‘floods and storms in the Netherlands and Britain caused 1,932 deaths and $3 billion damage’ in 1953 ‘Venezuela’s rainstorm in December (1999) caused floods and landslides resulting in over 30,000 deaths and overall damage of around $15 billion’.

Overall costs of extreme weather are really on the rise.

Public education is one answer. (“Don’t build there, please.”)

Environmental education is another. (“We can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.”


[See dumb photo in context]

Entertainment - not so much.

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