Article Contributed on: 4/21/2008 10:48:07 AM
We've gone from
Earth Day to Earth Week. Possibly Earth Month.
As I've blogged before, we can do better to take care of our planet. Drive a little slower, re-cycle, and just waste less.
But this is being so over-hyped I continue to worry that the whole green movement will go the route of the hoola-hoop. Hot for a while, over sold then over and done with. And beware of
green scams.
Al Gore used a little "fudging" in his documentary which won an Oscar, but perhaps it should have been for fiction.
Check out the current issue of
Time. I'm with those who think they could have done a better job with the cover. Some images you just don't mess with, including raising the flag on Iwo Jima. Flip open the magazine and there's Chevy touting it's 2008 Tahoe Hybrid as the "Green Car of the Year."
Check out the mouse print at the bottom of the page. The Tahoe gets 14 mpg city, 20 on the highway. Whoopie.
Green? I don't think so. But I give GM credit for at least starting, even though it was companies like Toyota that really led the way. But guess what? You'll get to park closer to the Pepsi Center with that 14 mpg Tahoe than if you owned a 35 mpg Honda. It's all part of the midguided rush to talk green, instead of actually going green.
Time also claims that "The U.S. has sat out the fight against climate change." That's pure crap.
When I lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin we had an area outside of town we called the "ledge." Actually it was something called a terminal morraine, a ridge of earth pushed up by glaciers from the ice age. Those glaciers eventually receded. Maybe it was caused by dinosaur farts.
Antarctica used to have a tropical climate. Then the dang continent shifted south and turned into an ice cube. The world has gone through cycles of climate change since God created it. And it will continue to change and evolve.
Let's not forget about green hypocracy either. Attendees of the DNC in Denver will be able to write a check to purchase "carbon offsets." They can pollute all they want, and write a check to ease their concience. Carbon Offsets are just as big a scam as ethanol.
The latest fall out of the ethanol scam is world hunger. Corn for gas tanks, but not for stomachs.
What a crock.
All this week you'll see lots of ads from companies selling green. Many are doing it to make green. Some, to their credit, actually are trying to make a difference. Never has so much green been on display since St. Patrick's Day.
On the cover of today's Denver Post the headline reads "Going Green, a fad or for real?" Right now it's 60-40 fad. And that's too bad.