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CHEERS?
A BREAKTHROUGH DEAL OR A HOAX?
CUT THE CRAP… AND THE CARBON EMISSIONS?
TRUST THE COMMIES?
INSTANT GLOBAL WARMING GUEST: Danny Boyd, is an environmental activist and iconoclast; he is author of the new graphic novel titled Carbon.
President Barack Obama and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jingping have made historical headway in climate change agreements after meeting in Beijing last week. Both parties have pledged to create significant limits in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As the world’s top two contributors to Earth’s pollution levels, many citizens are optimistic and fully supportive of the new pledges.
Author and filmmaker Daniel Boyd is especially pleased that the US has agreed to cut one-third of its carbon emissions by 2025, and China’s by 2030. “I think even the most cynical among us, from either extreme can agree that the most powerful, motivating factor in the world is the Buck or the Yuan, Euro, etc… When even the Chinese realize that proven destructive environmental practices hamper economic prosperity, (as opposed to the antiquated thoughts that new/alternative is cost prohibitive), who will the naysayers be able to blame now? India?…And, hey, if they can clean the air as effectively as they clean their internet, while remaining the world’s leading economy, they might get pretty good at it. Maybe we can learn something – about the air that is.”
Boyd is the author of the new graphic novel Carbon, a timely story set in the Southern West Virginia coalfields about an evil coal operator who lets his greedy disregard for miners’ safety cause him to awaken and release a cursed and banished underground civilization of monster demons onto the surface.
Aware of the symbolism and sticky subject, Boyd says: “Look, I know it’s not the most popular thing to say to a lot of people in the coal mining industry right now, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of mine operators have been raping and pillaging our state and taking the majority of the wealth out of here for over a hundred years. Now that the White House has its supposed “War On Coal” happening and the EPA wants to slash pollution from coal fired plants, these coal operators are in serious trouble because suddenly they have to play by the rules. So what do they do? They get a bunch of hard working miners all pissed off at the government, and then they close down the mines and lay off our miners and cripple our state’s economy instead of even trying to figure out how to make it work. Call me a tree-hugger, but I’m sick of the way the industry is trying to push their big, fat lies down our throats. They have been manipulating and disrespecting not only the miners, but also us citizens with these deceptions.”
PLUG BOOK: http://www.amazon.com/Carbon-Daniel-Boyd/dp/0985749334/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409061549&sr=1-2
BIO: Boyd is an acclaimed filmmaker with dozens of films to his credit, including Chillers, Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers and Paradise Park. Two of Boyd’s archaeology documentaries, Red Salt & Reynolds and Ghosts Of Green Bottom, won national Telly awards, and both were regional Emmy nominees. In addition to his work at WVSU, Boyd has taught around the world including in Tanzania as a three-time Fullbright Scholar. He has recently moved into graphic novel creation with Chillers the graphic novel series. Chillers Book 1 was a 2012 Shel Dorf nominee for original graphic novel of the year and a Ghastly Award nominee for best horror anthology.
WEBSITE: danielboyd.com
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/DanielBoydAuthor?ref=tn_tnmn
ABOUT CARBON: What if there really was a Garden of Eden -a place with a history before the first people we know of? A civilization cursed and banished underground for breaking their own commandment to live in balance with the Earth. When an evil coal operator discovers that the “sacred” carbon can burn forever, he will sacrifice the land and the people to extract the full deposit. When he awakens and releases a hell the surface world cannot imagine, the only thing that stands in the way of the ecological disaster, is a disgraced, ex-pro baseball pitcher and a community of courageous coal miners. Carbon is a supernatural horror story intertwined with environmental issues so timely they appear to come from the day’s headlines, just barely scratches the surface of Carbon, the all new graphic novel from Daniel Boyd.