The Sustainable Car Chase

Hollywood faces unique a challenge.

How to respond to growing public concern about the condition of our environment, without abandoning traditional story telling devices such as a car chase or trip to outer space?

Directors are beginning to calculate both the actual and theoretical "Carbon Footprint" of their work.

For example, car explosions.

Cars exploding from either impact or gun fire can be found in virtually every major release. Studios are now purchasing Carbon Credits as a solution to offset the pollution generated from burning these vehicles.

Other changes are more subtle. When Earth is threatened by Space Aliens, Hollywood writers have traditionally sent humans into space to defend the planet. Green thinking is questioning that long commute.

By waiting for the Aliens to come to earth, the battle is kept local. This greatly reduces the "Theoretical Carbon Footprint" of the battle. The communties leveled by waging war with Space Aleins also creates new opportunites. Rebuilding cities destroyed by the aliens creates good paying, local jobs. It's a win/win situation.

Anyway, here's an example of a car chase you can enjoy with a conscious. Very little fossil fuel was used in this scene.

-L