The new issue of Wired magazine has a great article about the many fallacious "solutions" to global warming that are really just guilt-sops. I don't want to get political here (I swore off it; I'm not even reading the news and the apocalypse is getting on just fine without my attending to it), but I still get CRAZY MAD when people talk about buying green stuff. BUYING THINGS IS NOT GREEN. Wired's case in point: manufacturing a Toyota Prius uses the BTU equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gasoline. A used car, on the other hand, has already paid its carbon debt, in terms of lifetime emissions per mile including emissions from the manufacturing process. BUY USED. SHOP GOODWILL.
Another item on this blog is a reflection taking the bus. Read it here.
And a sea level rise map:
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BUYING THINGS IS NOT GREEN.
BUYING THINGS IS NOT GREEN.
BUYING THINGS IS NOT GREEN.
It just bears repeating.
Great post Ann.
Well if you have to buy new, it's better to buy green. Right?
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