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--Apple-Mail=_E5E3BDB5-654C-45EB-911F-48C174B74FE6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: Leap Day, Leap Manifesto, global warming, Academy Awards > Date: March 1, 2016 at 6:38:35 PM AST > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Cc: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >=20 > FEB. 29, 2016 - LEAP DAY! Makes me think of the Leap Manifesto = movement, ala Naomi Klein=92s book and the similarly titled documentary = filmed by Avi Lewis, =93This Changes Everything=94, concerning global = climate change and its repercussions and what can/should be done about = this anthropogenic problem. =20 >=20 > I=92m glad I was up late watching the end of the Academy Awards on = Sunday (yesterday). Leonardo DiCaprio won best actor for =93The = Revenant=94, and his short acceptance speech ended with some very = well-chosen words about climate change and the need for humanity to come = to its senses finally and so something about it. He finished with = something like, =93I don=92t take our planet for granted, and I don=92t = take this award for granted.=94 >=20 > If anyone knows how to get DiCaprio=92s actual words on climate = change, I would like to see them again. >=20 > Perhaps fittingly, today was abnormally very warm, albeit with very = strong winds. Apparently Greenwood, King=92s County, Nova Scotia, was = the warmest spot in Canada at 17.6 degrees C. >=20 > Cheers from Jim, in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail=_E5E3BDB5-654C-45EB-911F-48C174B74FE6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><br><div style=3D""><br><div>Begin forwarded = message:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Leap Day, Leap = Manifesto, global warming, Academy Awards</b><br></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">March 1, 2016 at 6:38:35 PM = AST<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" = content=3D"text/html charset=3Dwindows-1252"><meta = http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" = content=3D"text/html charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>FEB. 29, 2016</b> - = <b>LEAP DAY! </b> Makes me think of the <b>Leap Manifesto = movement,</b> ala Naomi Klein=92s book and the similarly titled = documentary filmed by Avi Lewis, <b>=93This Changes Everything=94</b>, = concerning global climate change and its repercussions and what = can/should be done about this anthropogenic problem. </div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">I=92m glad I was up late watching the end of the Academy Awards on = Sunday (yesterday). Leonardo DiCaprio won best actor for =93The = Revenant=94, and his short acceptance speech ended with some very = well-chosen words about climate change and the need for humanity to come = to its senses finally and so something about it. He finished with = something like, =93I don=92t take our planet for granted, and I don=92t = take this award for granted.=94</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">If anyone knows = how to get DiCaprio=92s actual words on climate change, I would like to = see them again.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">Perhaps<b> fittingly, today = was abnormally very warm</b>, albeit with very strong winds. = Apparently Greenwood, King=92s County, Nova Scotia, was the warmest spot = in Canada at <b>17.6 degrees C.</b></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;"><b><br></b></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>Cheers from Jim, = in Wolfville.</b></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_E5E3BDB5-654C-45EB-911F-48C174B74FE6--
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