One of the reason's I love The Buck Stops Here is that Stuart Buck posts on topics you rarely see elsewhere. Yesterday's offering is a salient point about a subset of dedicated environmentalists and their fear of excessive energy use:
The Sierra Club itself included a ten-page section listing probably 100+ Club-sponsored trips all around the world -- from backpacking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to hiking in Nepal to a safari in Tanzania. Both the advertisers and the Sierra Club obviously expect to reach a lot of readers who have a good bit of disposable income, the time to travel around the world for weeks at a time, and the willingness to participate in huge amounts of carbon emissions. (I'm assuming that no one is going to paddle a canoe to New Zealand to go hiking there, nor will they swim to the Galapagos with a bicycle strapped to their backs.)
I am familiar with some of these folks. If you drive an SUV, you will be excoriated for your poor mileage per gallon. Yet, these same Guardians of the Earth have no problem owning multiple homes, traveling to other continents; hell, some of 'em even own private jets!
But, as Stuart says ... as long as they trundle along in their Prius and bike while at home, they're Environmental Saviors and the rest of us are ca ca.
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