Posted on 12/06/2007 1:02:22 PM PST by grundle
Recently I have spent considerable time considering my environmental failings, if not actually doing much about them. Like the average American household, we own two cars. Between my husband and me, we drive 13,000 miles (21,000 km) a year, making our country 520 gal. (2,000 L) of gas more dependent on foreign suppliers. The thermostat in our 2,200-sq.-ft. (200 sq m) house is set at 70°F (21°C). It takes 6,960 kW-h a year to power our computers, halogen lights and plasma TV. My child went through an industry-calculated average of 4.4 diapers a day for 34 months, which amounts to 4,488 soiled Huggies in some landfill. So far this year, I have traveled 34,574 miles (or 55,636 km, which sounds a lot worse) by air. According to the calculator on ClimateCrisis.net my household produces 15 tons of carbon dioxide a year. The average is 7.5. Mine is the Sasquatch of carbon footprints.
The reasons for not going green usually boil down to one, so elegantly put by a frog who had no choice in the matter: It's not easy being green. It's easier to toss the leftovers into the 13-gal. (50 L) Hefty bag than figure out how to use the compost bin that sits just outside. It's easier to drive to the grocery store than to plant my own vegetable garden. It's easier to keep my job writing for a magazine that prints 3.25 million copies a week than it is to start over in a new career designing suburban yurts.
Yes, the truth is inconvenient. But I'm trying. I am attempting to reverse my eco-unconsciousness, if only to assuage the twitchy sensation in my cells.
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"My intentions are good. That's all that matters"
Wonder what my green footprint is - I put 500# of salt on the ground this morning.
(plow truck)
She's killing mother earth. To the ramparts my fellow eco-warriors!
The cynic will tell you that religious doctrines that promise redemption and salvation are successful because of overwhelming human guilt. This also applies to Gorian Environmentalism.
That is why I say that Recycling is the new Religion.
Luckily for Lisa, it is easy being a nit wit. It requires no energy whatsoever.
when i lived in durango, co. i invented a term for pseudo-enviro-whackos. the term was “durango recycling.” now, for me to call you a “durango recycler,” would entail long hours of you bitching about saving the world followed by you “recycling” your paper, plastic, and aluminum by shoving them in a paper bag, into the closet, which when full, or you moved out, i would place in a plastic bag and stick out at the curb. (apologies for the run-on sentence). /rant>
Ah, the religion for those who don’t have one.
How quaint.
His kid was not potty trained until two months shy of the age of three. Obviously he is in need of a government-run potty-training program, because he can't handle the job himself.
According to the calculator on ClimateCrisis.net my household produces 15 tons of carbon dioxide a year. The average is 7.5. Mine is the Sasquatch of carbon footprints.
Piker! I scorn your puny Carbon Footprint! I mock the feeble nature of your attempts to change Earth's climate! I deride your fossil fuel burning ability!
You must be a Greenie. I'm doing my part with 20.55.
If there wasn’t any carbon dioxide, we’d die. It’s where our oxygen comes from.
I wonder how many idiots out there think carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are the same?
For all the supposed damage she does at home, it pales in comparison to the damage she does at work.
Plants use carbon dioxide.
She’s trying to kill the plants.
May the trees fall upon your house in anger and the waters undercut its foundations. May the leaves fall upon your roof until their weight collapses it and porcupines be beneath your bare feet.
This extreme radical environmentalism that’s come into such vogue in the last several years is little more than the new religion adopted by the people who don’t believe in God, but are atill searching for some kind of meaning.
Then your farts would be as clean and pure as your intentions.
Luckily for Lisa, it is easy being a nit wit. It requires no energy whatsoever
At least Lisa is conserving brain cells.
This isn’t even worthy of comment!!! (let alone a ping or bump)
I'm in the mid 20s due to driving my car, eating meat, and not recycling. And, if any enviro-whackos read my comments, I am planning two long-distance road trips (2500 mi. round-trip) in the spring semester, in addition to several shorter-distance road trips. Plus, we have several long-haul flights to Canada and Europe.
Just doing my part to offset the idiots who are buying carbon credits.
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