Naturally Interesting

Environmentalism taken too far. Seen recently:

• Buy a book. Then donate some money to plant trees because you’re using paper.
• Don’t fly. It’s bad for the environment.
• Don’t drive either. Also bad for the environment.
• Don’t eat meat. Mean to the animals. Also bad for the environment (versus being a vegetarian/vegan).

If you truly love the environment you will take the following steps, otherwise you’re just a hypocrite.

1. Sell your car.
2. Turn off the electricity.
3. Sit on your couch.
4. Stop eating and drinking.
5. Wait till you die. Killing yourself is good for the environment, everything else is just resource utilization.
6. Also, the single best thing you could do for the environment is not have children. If you already did, kill them too.

So I’m being a bit facetious but there is a point to be made. The earth is a closed system of limited resources. With increasing population there will be increasing competition for those resources.  And environmental advocates are starting to really preach minimizing your environmental impact. Reducing your environmental impact is simply reducing your resource utilization. The question is how far do you go? It used to be turn off the lights when you’re not in the room and recycle. Then it became drive less, and change your lightbulbs. Now some are saying don’t drive, don’t fly, don’t do anything. Because pretty much anything you do involves some form of resource utilization. Taken to the logical conclusion this ends up with you wearing all your clothes, sitting on the couch in the dark, not doing anything because you’ve turned off the heat and electricity and doing anything would use resources. The only thing left to do is kill yourself because everytime you exhale you release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Stop breathing right now!

Everything in moderation, including moderation.