How Green Is My Reality

Campus Report ^ | September 7, 2007 | Bethany Stotts

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How Green Is My Reality

by: Bethany Stotts, September 07, 2007

In an Alex Gregory New Yorker cartoon featuring two cavemen, one notes to the other, “Something’s just not right—our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet nobody lives past thirty.” Although the cartoon was originally meant as a satire, a Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE) publication shows why this joke carries a hard edge among environmentalists.

Written by CARE Executive Director Marita Noon and Research Assistant John McCulloch, “Environmental Utopia” attempts to demonstrate that radical environmentalism imposes disastrous costs on society. In the end, Noon and McCulloch argue that “extreme environmentalism has just as many downsides as the progress-at-any-cost-extreme,” and the necessary policy balance comes when citizens realize that they “cannot have the energy we want without some elements we do not want.”

[wastedyears]

Everybody needs protein

[AnAmericanMother]

My OB-GYN has this cartoon framed on her wall!

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Perhaps the environmentalists will get so worked up and worried about a problem that they actually may take a science or engineering class. And then again perhaps not.

An environmentalist that is good in science or engineering is as rare as a Senator that is a military expert.

[The Great RJ]

While environmentalists lament the internal combustion engine, it was that technology that made cities more livable. When horses were the norm, literally tons of horse manure and thousands of gallons of horse urine were deposited on city streets every day breeding flies, stench and disease. Dead horses were also a major clean-up problem. The automobile changed all that for the better.

[Clock King]

Their protein starved brains can’t handle science and engineering.