Would also add to the cute message that oh so many greenies are recycling this and that and then without a thought jump on a jet to go off to this or that conference or vacation spot without a thought as to what these and a host of other personal activities are doing that run counter to the religion of being green.
arthur -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: Being Green Then and Now Tom Walker wrote: > Cute but false and misleading. > [snip] > "Cute" bullshit is still bullshit. Well, yeah. But not any greater or more tedious bullshit than many of the putatively "green" odds & sods that we're expected (or forced) to embrace today, many of which (IMHO) are ways of externalizing some large entity's cost onto the consumer or create a profit ex novo. Yes, the vast volumes of toxics and particulates fired up smokestacks, down drains and off tailings dumps before regulation outweigh, in global effect, plastic bags or gas lawn mowers. The point of the "cute" piece was to ridicule self-righteous Greenness among those who adopt and evangelize the Green Consumer Catechism without critical thought or meaningful knowledge. Or so I understood it. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
