Posted on 01/09/2024 5:41:38 AM PST by MtnClimber
The climate-change killjoys have gone to great lengths in recent years linking practically anything and everything as a contributor to climate change. Gas stoves? Check. Dishwashers? Check. Eating meat? Check. Sporting events? Check. Breathing? Check, too.
Given this history, I must say I was not all that surprised when I read a recent article in the Washington Post claiming, “Indoor houseplants come with a cost to the planet.”
According to article’s author, “greening indoor spaces can also come at an environmental cost. The trucks that transport plants spew carbon emissions, plastic pots and synthetic fertilizers are made from petroleum and the harvesting of soil components like peat can tear up slow-forming habitats.”
Virtually everything we buy and consume in the modern age is transported via truck, train, and/or cargo ship. For instance, most of the technological devices Americans buy in spades these days are transported across the entire world, from Asia to the United States. The same is true for the vast majority of foodstuffs, trinkets, and creature comforts that we use on a daily basis.
Declaring that we should refrain from purchasing these products simply because they must be transported across vast distances via a train, truck, or cargo ship which use fossil fuels, is absurd. If we were to implement this “planet-saving strategy” throughout our lifestyles by avoiding the purchase of products that need to shipped, the worldwide economy would grind to a halt, life would be miserable, and human flourishing would plummet.
Instead of purchasing a plant from a greenhouse or nursery, the author suggests, “looking for local plant swaps or garden clubs in your area, which are often organized online or on social media sites. Other gardeners are often happy to give you cuttings of their own plants, which you can propagate...
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I’m not giving up my plants, nor will I be surrendering my pets, or my water and electricity, as a sacrifice to the faceless Gaya.
To use a slogan from Texas, I say “Come and take it!”.
Okay, no plants, no decor, clinical white walls, government issued clothing, bugs for food, chips following your every move.
This is the future for your children if people do not stop these deranged people.
Exactly.
Just when you think we’ve reached maximum insanity, something like this comes along to prove you wrong.
Is there an exit door in this asylum?
Housecats, too, according to the National Organization for Dogs.
Oh, my wife is gonna be pizzed if they come for her houseplants. I may even convince her to buy a gun now.
hey....that’s “San Fran Shitco” to you!home of the original “sidewalk steamer”. no other place on earth has that smell. except for the halls of Congress.
People engaged in BLM protests cause climate change, and greatly affect the carbon foot print; they should be stomped out.
Indeed it is! They seek to drag us all down to their level of misery rather than raise themselves up.
There have been micro scale warming and cooling periods within the Last Glacial Period, but things have been warming considerable for 115,000 years when the area now Chicago was under 1500 feet of ice.
“Apparently, houseplants now contribute to climate change”
Is “houseplant” a euphemism for “liberal?”
No, that would be a vegetable.
Hmmm, Chicago under 1500 feet of ice. That could work.....
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