Letters to the Editor
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Retard O
Is this the same person who gave away CARS to everyone in her audience?????
Yep, she sure is working on Climate Change.....
P.S. her magazine sucks too. (Unless you're RICH.)
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spoxwyfe
If you understood "The Secret", you could have positive climate change, a new car, and be rich enough to enjoy "O" magazine.
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Huh...
I guess Laurie David and Ed Begley Jr. turned out to not be big enough names.
Enough with the talking already. Let some of these stars show us how they're downsizing to the 10% of US consumption that's really required to fight global warming. That means one modest house of 1500 to 2000 square feet, lots of travel by bike or other human-powered measures, solar and wind power, home composting, and local, in-season foods. It's not glamorous, so they are risking falling of the radar. After all, the modest and conservative Harrison Ford didn't even make the list.
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O this says it all
I'll admit that I have a soft spot for Oprah. I've never watched too much of her show,
Try actually watching the show, and see whether you can stay a fan.
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Oprah
According to, "The Secret," which has been endorsed by Oprah, we could fix climate change if we just thought positively. So, could she be the next Al Gore? Uh, maybe.
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power of O
Oprah may be fine for women, but I know of no men that watch her, and very few that have much use of her opinion. She certainly does good things, but bottom line is- she is just another very wealthy entertainer.
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I think of Oprah like everyone else
--you take the good with the bad. There is usually one good show every two weeks or so.
Is her show celebrity and "favorite thing" obsessed? Perhaps.
But I'd be hard-pressed to think of another daytime talk show host that talks about issues as in-depth as Oprah. Sexism, racism, and poverty are her go-to issues. And yes, she has recently branched out into environmentalism.
One show, on about a month ago before the summer repeats started, was clearly aimed at her daytime audience. It encouraged everyone to use canvas grocery bags and then gave everyone in the audience one. The same thing for those eco-friendly light bulbs. It did about 10 different products. Of course, this isn't going to end climate change as we know it, but it is a baby step. I think it would be worse if Oprah wasn't talking about it at all.
And on the Leo DiCaprio environmentalism show, Oprah told him she was going to get rid of one of her cars because she had one of the gross polluters he talked about.
And my husband watched both these episodes and the one a few weeks ago where Oprah had Michael Moore on to promote Sicko.
Oprah knows who watches her show and plans her promotions accordingly. I'm not saying that men don't use grocery bags too, but that in some families (like the ones who probably watch Oprah), the women are the ones most likely doing the shopping.
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Eyes on the Prize
Oprah has millions of women and shut-ins and kids watching her daily. At least those women, who are homemakers and retirees, do a lot of the shopping for the family. If Oprah tells them, "Buy a flourescent light bulb to save energy and money", they'll do it. Suppose 10,000 women pick up a couple of those bulbs on their next grocery expedition.
If Oprah tells them to use mass transit or get their kids on bikes or to walk or carpool and a thousand of those millions of viewers do it, that is a net gain.People trust her and love her. They probably will vote for candidates she sess as pro-environment.
Its easy to snark on her and on Gore for their affluent lifestyles, but charismatic people attract money as well as eyes. Money buys stuff. Its a weird paradox. But if Oprah or Gore can get a million people to change their habits, even a little, they more than mitgate their own consumption. I sincerely doubt that people like Julia "Butterfly" Hill, who sofa surfs and sits in trees is going to have the impact that telegenic and ubiquitous people like Oprah has.
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Please, no more hypocritical celebrities
touting how the "little people" should avoid over-consumption to save the planet, whilst lounging about their 25K square foot mansions.
Yes, as one writer pointed out, money does buy stuff. But it doesn't HAVE to buy stuff. Just because these people have a lot of money doesn't mean they have to spend it in such ridiculous, frivolous, blatantly acquisitive and consumptive ways, and then tell us we should conserve energy.
Who needs a 25,000 square foot house? Seriously, even if you had 14 kids (which in and of itself is an environmental disaster), no one needs that much room. Gore's kids are grown. It's him and his wife. He needs a huge mansion with a heated pool? Horseshit.
Let them walk the walk. Until then, they may as well keep their phony mouths shut and pray no one happens to look into their huge, heated pool containing back yards.
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Oprah..the Queen
Ah, if only Oprah and all the women of America who flock to her shrine would spend as much time caring about the plight of African American women in America as she does young African girls...then I might be impressed. But she isn't and neither are her fans, so...I find it necessary not to be impressed by Oprah!