The Perilous Thawing Permafrost!
March 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EnvironmentCan’t say I agree with the author, 100%, shoot, probably not 70%, but I like the point he makes about Disney. Some organizations don’t really get into “the facts”.
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From remarks by Robert J. Papp Jr., U.S. special representative for the Arctic and retired Coast Guard admiral, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., March 12:
A very bright young lady within my office who is a big fan of Disney, the movie “Frozen” . . . she suggested that we need to start teaching the youth about the Arctic, and perhaps having some public-service announcements done with the Disney characters from the movie “Frozen”—you know, Anna and Elsa and Sven and Olaf—I know these because I have granddaughters and I watch the movie all the time. . . . I had gone out to Disney in Los Angeles to meet with them, and I didn’t think my marketing through very well, and I said, “You’ve taught all these kids around the world about a fantasy Arctic city in Norway, a kingdom that doesn’t really exist and conditions that don’t really exist.” I said, “You need to start teaching them about the plight of the polar bear, and Alaskan villages that are falling into the ocean because the permafrost is thawing,” and I went on with a list of other things. And I could see this guy was becoming more and more concerned, and then he said, “Admiral, you might not understand. Our culture here at Disney is to project positive images and happy endings.” And he’s right. But how do you turn that into finding some happy endings for our Arctic as well?
Notable & Quotable: ‘Frozen’ 2: The Perilous Thawing Permafrost! – WSJ.
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