Reprinted From My Column On http://www.crazypinoy.com
The Drama For October, 2007
Category: Life
This whole Carbon Neutrality thing is a crock. I can't stand it. The media is going to tell me that all I have to do is offset the use of the SUV by planting a tree once a year or make a donation somewhere? Puleeeez. This is a Touchy Feely method of obscuring some very scary facts about how the worst specie on the planet is destroying itself.
If you let them tell it, and by "them" I mean all corporate owned media, which is everything we read and listen to, Don't Worry - Be Happy, and be sure to keep spending, consuming or otherwise extract all you can, because, hey, you can make up for it by using those hotel sheets twice! It's just dumb.
Now, I am as guilty as the next person, I know that. I drive mid to low mileage heavy vehicles, trying to remember but often forgetting to bring my Trader Joes shopping bags with me into all markets so I don't have to use the store provided plastic, drink from ridiculous plastic cup lids from Starbucks, keep the appliances plugged in, haven't bought the special lightbulbs yet, haven't started the e mail campaign requesting of particular companies to cut down on its use of paper, haven't yet converted all my bills to online statements, am not on http://www.goloco.org/ daily to offer or hitch a ride around town, and not looking into how much petroleum product went into that Ascot Chang shirt fabric I just acquired. No, I am a typical critic who doesn't adhere to his preaching, at times. But I will say it again, Carbon Neutrality is a fake, ad driven, Feel Good, worthless media created set of words that make no difference to the Ozone layer or the 30 other verifiable species that go extinct everyday, because the materials we need to run the cellphone and battery in the Toyota Prius are just Too Cool, man.
But I'm Tryin'. I'm Really Tryin'.
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