Maybe I will change my mind about the “we” campaign?
Their latest “Oil and Coal” ad is getting at the main issue, at last:
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La Marguerite 
Bravo! Bravo!
Yes, and there are alot more facts (that would anger the heck out of people if they knew).
This word needs to get out quickly. It’s amazing, AMAZING, that the mainstream media have been so gentle and shy and silent about this.
Cheers all.
“Tout homme est forme par son siecle : bien peu s’elevent au-dessus des moeurs du temps.”
– Voltaire
OK, Marguerite, what does all that mean? I don’t speak French but I came across this quote and thought you might be able to help. And, given where I saw it, I think it might have some relevance to our human mess?
Can you help?
(I apologize in advance if it’s profane or inappropriate in some way. I don’t speak French, and I’m just assuming that the source isn’t try to pull a joke on me.)
Cheers.
> Jeff : nice to see you are back ! 🙂
Each man is made by his century : not many rise above the manners / morals of his time
It’s done quickly, without working too much on it but I think it is a satisfactory translation.
the problem here being the word moeurs which can describe habits, manners and morals… I guess the three of them could do the job there. 🙂
Hope this helps !
On the ad itself :
We won’t be able to power a whole country with wind and solar alone… this is quite a big fallacy as they are providing us less than a percent, much less…
For them, it is too little too late, but for other means which are coming from higher grounds, there is a potential…
http://www.elrst.com/2008/06/10/renewables-arent-perfect-solutions/
Edouard, agree with you. There is not one magic answer, but rather a magic combination of multiple solutions. As a citizen, I believe it is important to find the type of solution we resonate most with and can contribute to, in terms of our expertise. For me, that means creating solutions at the confluence of social media and sustainability.
Dear Marguerite and Edouard,
Edouard, thanks for the translation. A quick question: Could the words that you translated as “manners/morals of his time” also or instead mean “ideas” of his time, or “paradigms” of his time? I ask because I recently saw another translation that was along the lines of “ideas” of his time, I think.
Marguerite, do you have any thoughts on the Voltaire phrase/translation? Thanks.
And Marguerite, in your great recent entry, you mention “creating solutions at the confluence of social media and sustainability.” Along those lines, I’m pretty confident that I know how many of the central concepts associated with the climate change problem (including not just the climate change concepts but also the relevant human concepts) can be conveyed briefly and effectively to, let’s say, a sixth-grader, using short engaging video clips and without getting technical. For example, like the Story of Stuff thing, only even more simple. Do you know of anyone that I can/should try to connect with?
Also, do you happen to know anyone at The Stanford Daily?
Less than two months to go. Got my yard sign up, and I wear my booster button around town.
Cheers for now.
> Jeff : you are welcome ! 🙂
I guess indeed that moeurs can here be translated as ideas or paradigms.
Yeap, less than two months before the elections. Hope this one at long last will turn out right…
and this even more since I read Marguerite’s other blog ( next to Palin, Royal seems to be an intellectual, that’s says a lot. 😥 )
“Tout homme est forme par son siecle : bien peu s’elevent au-dessus des moeurs du temps.”
I love that quote.
Yet, I want to add nowadays – because of the internet – there’s not one time, but multiple times. Depending on which friends / information sources you have you can be said to be either living in the past or in the future, relative to others.
I consider this place to be very ahead in time. It will indeed be hard for us to think “beyond” the time La Marguerite (in its entirety) is in. Yet, we’re clearly not thinking like most people in our respective hometowns.
In its total, I do believe there’s some kind of “wave of the future”, on which beyond we truly cannot look. Yet, one can try to be on the front tip of that wave. This requires a constant search for the latest “memes”. It helps of course if you’re connected to people who do likewise.
This is the first time that I have seen this particular ad. I think it’s important that we campaign the real issues whether candidates speak on them or not. I think we have only begun to tap the power of wind energy. Solar energy is still largely inefficient for many areas, but wind energy needs to be explored more. There needs to be more research in urban wind power. I’ve seen a few new inventions that take advantage of natural wind tunnels between 2 buildings and inventions that take advantage of wind created by vehicles on highways. The problem is that we have been sluggish and content. It didn’t hurt enough for us to make change until now. I see drastic advances in alternative energy coming.
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