Watching What They Teach Part 2
So the Junior Logician comes home from school today with a hand out that he said he was supposed to give to me. He drags it out of his backpack and when I took it from him and started reading he started laughing. For the headline of this flyer that his class was give was this...
Some of the things on their list were common sense things that most families do, not to save the environment, but to save money out of their ever tightening budgets. Things like taking shorter showers, washing clothes in cold or warm water instead of hot, turning off lights and televisions when not in use, unplugging the energy "vampires" (computer chargers and cell phone chargers) when not in use, turning down the heat in the winter...that kind of thing. Some of them fell into the "everything old is new again" category - line drying your laundry (although some people can't do that because of homeowners association regulations). Some of the suggestions were just flat our ridiculous (unplugging alarm clocks because of the energy used to power them) and everything was tied around reducing carbon dioxide.
One of the more ridiculous suggestions on that sheet though was this one:
Let's see....we live in Minnesota where the growing season is what....4 months long? And how are we to get the produce that we need to maintain healthy lives and thus not need health care? Oranges and other citrus foods just do not grow in Minnesota!
Seriously - a lot of the suggestions on this sheet are "well DUH!" suggestions. It's all stuff that is second nature to the Junior Logician (and his family) not because he is an enviro-nut. It is because he (and we) would rather spend our money on other things than runaway energy bills.
20 Things You Can Do. Here are 20 things you can do to help stop global warming.
Some of the things on their list were common sense things that most families do, not to save the environment, but to save money out of their ever tightening budgets. Things like taking shorter showers, washing clothes in cold or warm water instead of hot, turning off lights and televisions when not in use, unplugging the energy "vampires" (computer chargers and cell phone chargers) when not in use, turning down the heat in the winter...that kind of thing. Some of them fell into the "everything old is new again" category - line drying your laundry (although some people can't do that because of homeowners association regulations). Some of the suggestions were just flat our ridiculous (unplugging alarm clocks because of the energy used to power them) and everything was tied around reducing carbon dioxide.
One of the more ridiculous suggestions on that sheet though was this one:
Buy Locally Grown Food
Let's see....we live in Minnesota where the growing season is what....4 months long? And how are we to get the produce that we need to maintain healthy lives and thus not need health care? Oranges and other citrus foods just do not grow in Minnesota!
Seriously - a lot of the suggestions on this sheet are "well DUH!" suggestions. It's all stuff that is second nature to the Junior Logician (and his family) not because he is an enviro-nut. It is because he (and we) would rather spend our money on other things than runaway energy bills.
Labels: Global Climate Change
posted by The Lady Logician at
6:24 PM
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The best way to stop Global Warming? Ignore it and it will go away! Since global temperatures haven't risen in the last ten years-- the ten years Al Gore said we had left to "save the planet"-- and I've been ignoring it for about that long, it's working!
J. Ewing
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tsh, at 3:01 PM
I've heard now that the temp went down 1 degree last year in comparison to the year before. It seems clear enough that we are not driving the warming trend.
Additionally, I read that several scientists that have not sold out to the man-made global warming swindle are predicting that we will see a measurable cooling trend in the next decade. Only time will set this global warming hype to rest. Let's fight and pray that we don't lose more of our freedoms until then.
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tsh, at 3:04 PM
We still have to be on gaurd, because these vermin adapt, calling it, now, "climate change." That lets them claim that whether the world gets warmer OR colder, it's caused by global warming! And, obviously, they're peddling this nonsense to our children in an attempt to gain through demagoguery what they cannot gain by debate. They're despicable.
J. Ewing
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