Would you have in mind something along the lines of the aptly-named
"Titanic Eco-Spa"? Green buildings, spring water and towels and a "spa
traveler award". I kid you not.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Arthur Cordell <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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-----
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> 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
>
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