Eco-guilt

[Jazzman]

Personally, I can't decide whether to consider the Green Movement/Global Warming to be the eugenics of the 21st century, or religion for atheists. Both are so accurate.

I have not a lick of eco-guilt, as I believe that global warming is B.S. I used to subscribe to it all, worry about the ozone layer, all that crap. Then I read State of Fear and looked up most of the documents in the bibliography and realized that the whole environmental movement is so far off base that it's like George Bush calling for sensible economic policy. I get into arguments all the time with hippies (gotta love Portland) who get their info from Newsweek and Al Gore and can't grasp that Earth's climate is an extremely complex system that is far greater in scope than anything mankind could ever largely influence and that almost all Global Warming evidence is anecdotal at best and completely ignores any findings contrary to what the alarmists and doom sayers preach. Case in point, the arctic ice sheet. The big news over the summer was that the arctic ice was going to completely disappear, but then, guess what. Nothing. Less ice loss than 2007. Oops. But, of course, they're right about everything else! Right!?! Riiigghht!?!?!

Anyhow, I should stop before I get really started. As far as Earth-saving measures, we recycle everything; glass, plastic, paper, cardboard. I may not be concerned about Global Warming, but limiting the size of landfills is a cause I can get behind. We don't use CFLs (may as well use candles, as far as I'm concerned) but we do use the cool Trader Joe's reusable shopping bags most of the time. We drive pretty fuel efficient little cars (though I should admit that eventually I plan to buy the biggest, most obnoxious, non-Hummer [cause they're friggin ugly] SUV I can find and drive it back and forth as often as possible with a sticker that says "Suck it, Hippy!") But that's pretty much it. Once we buy a house, I'd like to install solar panels, but that's more out of a desire to give the PUD as little as possible. All in all, I feel about as much eco-guilt as a Haliburton exec.