I had some fun writing up my earlier piece on "Harrison Ford," documenting my discovery of a Ford brand vehicle on Harrison Avenue in my hometown of Santa Cruz, California. This time around, I am providing a brief excerpt from an article in The Wall Street Journal Magazine that was delivered to my home on Saturday, February 15th.
In other words, this blog posting is actually about the "real" Harrison Ford (the non-vehicle version). Click right here for a link to that Wall Street Journal Magazine article, but be prepared for frustration. I think non-subscribers to The Wall Street Journal are likely to encounter a paywall preventing their actual access. I have provided a few photographs from the article, to go along with the words I want to focus on, as a compensation for those who do find an effective paywall preventing any actual review of the entire article.
Here is that Harrison Ford comment I want to highlight today (with emphasis added):
In January, when M. Sanjayan, chief executive of the nonprofit Conservation Inter-national, heard that Ford was among L.A.’s wildfire evacuees, he thought of a line the actor delivered at a 2019 United Nations summit amid massive fires in the Amazon rainforest. Comparing the global effects of environmental crisis to an up-close emergency, Ford said in the address, “When a room in your house is on fire you don’t say, ‘There’s a fire in a room in my house,’ you say, ‘My house is on fire.’ And we only have one house.”
Ford has served on the board of Conservation International for 33 years. He isn’t one to jump on Instagram to blame the devastation of the L.A. wildfires on climate change—he doesn’t have a public social media presence at all. Instead, Ford prefers to work behind the scenes, Sanjayan said, for example in forging discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron that led France to pledge $100 million to an Amazon protection effort, which Ford announced at the U.N. summit.
“This thing has always been deeply personal for him,” Sanjayan said, noting that now, as an L.A. resident swept up in a natural disaster, “he walks in a different set of shoes.”
Trying to make global warming understandable, so that people truly understand it for the crisis it is, is a very good thing, and Ford's way of talking about global warming is right on target:
“When a room in your house is on fire you don’t say, ‘There’s a fire in a room in my house,’ you say, ‘My house is on fire.’ And we only have one house.”
Our (only) house is on fire! Let's start mobilizing our talents, time, and money to start putting that fire out!
And here, as promised, is a small selection of the photos available in that magazine article you probably won't be able to read (unless you're a subscriber to The Wall Street Journal). The agony demonstrated in the photos that follow seems tied to comments I have reproduced, above. But.... remember that word on the tee-shirt in the photo at the top. And.... remember, too, that "Hope" is not self-executing.
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