October 31, 2006
Professional Sports And Global Warming?
George Monbiot thinks professional sports are contributing mightily to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.
His solution: Ultimate Frisbee:
Perhaps it's time to consider a fixed site for the Olympics and to encourage spectators to stay at home and watch international events on the telly. Perhaps we should recognise that some sports are simply too wasteful to be sustained. It is, after all, just entertainment. Can we really live with the idea that we might destroy the planet for fun?
For years a group of us struggled to find a sport that everyone could play. The young men were happy with football, but women, children and older people got hurt in collisions. We tried hockey, with disastrous results. Cricket and rounders lacked excitement. Then someone suggested ultimate frisbee and we have never looked back.
It is - if you choose to play it that way - fast and demanding, but, because there's no contact and a variety of useful tactics, almost anyone can join in. Our players so far have ranged from four to 79. Fifteen years on, most of us are in our forties and still executing some pretty spectacular dives. It's a great sport - I don't why it isn't played more widely.
I think George and his moonbat friends should try hockey again. I'd be happy (wrapping fists in tin foil) to reintroduce him to the sport.
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"Perhaps it's time to consider a fixed site for the Olympics...."
What, like the ancient Greeks? How far should we take this, Monbiot? Should we allow nations to pay their athletes to compete? Should we limit it only to men? Should they compete naked? Should we sacrifice hundreds of bulls to the gods? The Greeks did all these things!
Speaking of power, I think the Guardian's server farm takes up too much....
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at October 31, 2006 07:00 PM
Ultimate Frisbee - The fake sport for people who can't play real sports.
Posted by:
at October 31, 2006 08:01 PM
I wonder if his last name is really pronounced "moon-bat"?
Posted by:
at October 31, 2006 08:17 PM
It's probably French for Moonbat.
Posted by:
at November 1, 2006 11:52 AM
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