Last night I coincidentally turned on the TV to CNN just as "Planet in Peril" was starting. I was so glad to see it was being broadcast over here already. (Our CNN is a British CNN station). I thought for sure it would be months till we got to see it over here.
Here is a link to a preview of the show that I got from AnnMarie, along with a really cool REM song :)
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/10/rem.cooper/index.html
Unfortunately it was part 2 we were watching and we are hoping to see part 1 sometime in the near future. It was really interesting and intriguing. Along with seeing some beautiful places in this world (which is what I thrive on), I was surprised at some of the stuff going on in places that I would never have imagined. I think I was most shocked to hear that Lake Chad in Africa, once the 6th largest lake in the world has shrunk 90% in the past 45 years! THAT'S HUGE! Everyone has heard, "Save the Rainforests", "Global Warming", "Pollution", "Animal Extinction" and while these are pretty touchy subjects for a lot of people on both sides of the issues, this show presented it in an educated way that was very well done. (at least in my opinion) I was impressed that they even interviewed a few people that take other sides of the issues then the shows.
The best part of the show was when they were showing some clips in Africa of women doing laundry in the lake and sweet Michael, just as cool and collected as he could be turns to me and says in his most serious voice... "At least you get a sink to do the laundry in!" Of course we missed the next 2 minutes of the show because we were laughing hysterically. :)
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Wasn't that awesome! How funny about the laundry!
Michael can really deadpan, can't her? We had Planet in Peril. It is scary. I watched it as I was riding my bike one morning.
Hugs to you both,
Sharon
Ok..I want to see this!! It sounds amazing.... and then there was a new perspective I got about saving things today when we did the breast cancer walk.... there was a slogan on a shirt that said "Forget the whales, save the boobs"... mom and I were dying laughing, but the key is that we all have to work at saving the thing for which we are most passionate... :o)
Oops, oops, mea culpa!
Of course, I meant to say, "Can't he?"
I laughed out loud at that! That is SO something Wes would say. That's awesome.
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