Say what????
I don't know whether I should take this seriously or not?
"Is it just me, or are any other eco-friends out there starting to wonder just what we have to do to get people to listen? Man, how many times do we have to politely point out that buying a Christmas tree is, pretty much, in terms of blinkered selfishness, akin to hand-drowning peasants in the developing world?
But every night, when I walk home from the allotment, more trees have appeared. Each one, if you're an eco-campaigner like me, an almighty slap in the face. "
If this poor soul is serious, I don't know whether to yell or simply cry. It is people like this (and his multiple counterparts in the "animal rights" movement) that give rise to the environmental whacko monicker that Rush is so fond of and that makes it impossible for real conservation efforts to be taken seriously.
I mean really Will, do you think that no more trees will ever be planted or grown to replace the one that adores your neighbors windows? Do you honestly think that growning Christmas trees is an "evil trade" along the lines of, oh say, slavery?
And as far as your partner's suggestion that we "unravel and reknit" some old cashmere that we all have lying around, I have to ask, how do you think the goats that said cashmere came from feel about being shorn in order to make your full-head balaclava? I'm just saying..... Oh and that wire top from a champagne bottle...are you aware of how big the carbon footprint that manufacturing and bringing that champagne to England is? I'll admit that Rowan is quite the crafty lady, but that is an awfully big carbon footprint she is encouraging people to use. Oh and if we all quit our "time consuming jobs in order to not drive and so we can make our own carbon neutral gifts, just who will pay for your state provided health care?
While I'm thinking about, just what do you and Rowan eat? Hopefully it is organically grown vegatables. Oh but we can't have that. Certainly a staunch eco-campaigner like you knows that plants have feelings to...right????
"Is it just me, or are any other eco-friends out there starting to wonder just what we have to do to get people to listen? Man, how many times do we have to politely point out that buying a Christmas tree is, pretty much, in terms of blinkered selfishness, akin to hand-drowning peasants in the developing world?
But every night, when I walk home from the allotment, more trees have appeared. Each one, if you're an eco-campaigner like me, an almighty slap in the face. "
If this poor soul is serious, I don't know whether to yell or simply cry. It is people like this (and his multiple counterparts in the "animal rights" movement) that give rise to the environmental whacko monicker that Rush is so fond of and that makes it impossible for real conservation efforts to be taken seriously.
I mean really Will, do you think that no more trees will ever be planted or grown to replace the one that adores your neighbors windows? Do you honestly think that growning Christmas trees is an "evil trade" along the lines of, oh say, slavery?
And as far as your partner's suggestion that we "unravel and reknit" some old cashmere that we all have lying around, I have to ask, how do you think the goats that said cashmere came from feel about being shorn in order to make your full-head balaclava? I'm just saying..... Oh and that wire top from a champagne bottle...are you aware of how big the carbon footprint that manufacturing and bringing that champagne to England is? I'll admit that Rowan is quite the crafty lady, but that is an awfully big carbon footprint she is encouraging people to use. Oh and if we all quit our "time consuming jobs in order to not drive and so we can make our own carbon neutral gifts, just who will pay for your state provided health care?
While I'm thinking about, just what do you and Rowan eat? Hopefully it is organically grown vegatables. Oh but we can't have that. Certainly a staunch eco-campaigner like you knows that plants have feelings to...right????
posted by The Lady Logician at
8:51 PM
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I wish I could be as certain as you Skipper. I have worked with folks like this in my days when I was involved in the animal rights movement. It's people like this that got me OUT of the AR/enviromnetal movements....
None of the authors other pieces in the paper were satire so I would say (based on that) the he is dead serious.
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The Lady Logician, at 10:52 AM
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