July 07, 2007
The Planet is Burning...What to Do?
As Live Earth blares from television sets all over the world today (excluding mine, thank you very much...I plan to battle global warming by going swimming at my mom's pool this afternoon), this article from Spiked gives us some much-needed perspective in the guise of the wonderful, biting wit that distinguishes the Brits from the rest of us. The focus of the piece is the book put out by the Live Earth shysters, called the Global Warming Survival Handbook. Here's a teaser:
The book is unbearably middle class. It’s packed with weblinks for companies that make eco-jewellery and eco-clothing, or organise eco-weddings and advise you on how to ‘green your home’. Skill No.21 advises us to ‘work at home’. Apparently if one million of us did that, we’d eliminate three million tonnes of CO2 a year. Okay, but what about the millions of people who work in schools, hospitals, offices and factories, and whose jobs involve, you know, human interaction? Not everyone runs virtual online stores that sell overpriced hemp-based garments to the guilt-ridden daughters of the aristocracy. Most of us have proper jobs.
Read the rest!!! It's deliciously snarky, and dead on with the points it makes.
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I read that title wrong.
I thought you said "The Earth Is Burning to Do What?"
I would say, "The Earth is Burning, so what?"
So, did you watch the video on Schwetty's?
Posted by: aaron at July 8, 2007 07:06 AMHow 'bout cancelling Cindy Sheehan's bus caravan to DC?
Posted by: John Ruberry at July 8, 2007 06:26 PMMy girlfriend kept turning on the Live Earth concert yesterday, and every time I saw it I just had to laugh at the hypocrisy and hysteria of the Chicken Little crowd. The Al Gore pool quote kept coming to mind, especially whenever they cut away to "journalists" asking him "tough" questions about the environment.
Posted by: Reverse_Vampyr at July 9, 2007 08:43 AMPerhaps we should have watched some of it just for laughs and giggles. But we had better things to do.
Posted by: husband-dude at July 9, 2007 03:56 PM
