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Old Dec 11, 2009 | 1:39 pm
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PBS Version of FF Documentary - Invitation to Join Debate

Hi all. Some of you may have already seen my documentary "Frequent Flyer", linked to in my signature. I thought you might be interested to know, since it's a movie revolving around FT, that there's now a shorter version (13 minutes or so) up on the PBS Frontline/World website, here:

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/ro...feet_freq.html

Quite aside from the shameless self-promotion, the reason I'm mentioning it here is that most of the comments on there so far are from people who feel that our miles-collecting hobby is highly damaging to the environment. I personally tend to think that it's easy to beat up on airplanes without seeing the complexity of the situation. I'm totally open to debate on this, so I'd love to have some FTers go over there and join in the discussion, however you might feel on the issue. I suppose what I'm thinking is that the typical PBS audience (with exceptions of course) is going to be a bit one-sided on this, and maybe we could get some people who actually do mileage runs and the like to liven up the discussion a bit. So this is my invitation to everyone here to check out this new version and let me (and the world) know what you think.

And thanks for all the support so far!
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