Be Excellent To Each Other

Eco-beardies, upset that the world is currently more absorbed in the economic problems than 'saving' the planet, have gotten trendy buzzwords!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7696197.stm





Remember folks, 'save the planet' by turning off your heating and putting your hands between your buttocks - that's nature's pocket.

I'm pissed off with the environmental lot at the moment, for various reasons.

I think we should solve the problem of lack of food, lowering energy stocks and an overpopulated word and just eat all the eco-beardy weirdies. The vegetarian diet will make them taste lovely. Some we can just burn to cook the others over.

A BBQ at Lord Chris's, yesterday.

That was a good one. We added four species to the endangered list. Would have made one extinct but it was getting late.

I thought the planet-huggers wanted us to reduce our consumption. I guess they're disappointed that we're doing it out of circumstance, not coercion.

(above) Evil ecological debtors destroying the planet with their hygiene and modern medicine and good health and technology.

(below) Kind, peaceful souls living in harmony with mother earth slowly starve to death and succumb to easily treatable illness the natural, enviornmentally friendly way in their green-by-definition-only hellhole. Yesterday.

I offended one of my eco-friends by pointing out that he was perpetuating the myth of the noble savage.

Bloody pacifists.

Nah, he was looking for his friend, the cyclepath.

I walked past the book shop in Stroud the other day, and I had to do a double take as there were a couple of Imperial Stormtroopers in there. And, bizarrely, they weren't linign customers up against the wall and shooting them, but were looking at books in the travel section.

Everyone needs some down time, man - and there's only so many plasma charges in the galaxy. Besides, it's bad form to go in shooting without at least learning the local lingo for "move" and "these are not the droids".

They were trying to cheer themselves up with a holiday.

L-LOL. Excellent.

Plastic Stormtrooper armour isn't biodegradable!!! THEY'RE KILLING PLANETS EVEN WHEN THEY'RE NOT BLOWING THEM TO BITS WITH THE DEATH STAR!

This isn't actually ludicrous at all.

When you dilute your message by muscling in on coverage of the financial markets and coin more and more ridiculous terms like 'water footprint' and 'ecological recession', it's ludicrous.

What they are saying is entirely correct. The way they are saying it is ludicrous.

Indeed its harming the arguments for enviromentalism not helping them. It's trivilising it to the point where people will ignore the importance. I wrote a much longer post about this, but my browser crashed to save you all from it.

But case in point. Peta talking the issue of over fishing and the damage to the sea man kind is doing is this...



Seriously.

See, that is just wrong... as are all the armchair environmentalists who object to killing certain animals more because they're cute than because they actually understand why they're dying.

Why do you think they always show the fuzzy white harp seal pups, as opposed to the disgusting grey sluglike things that they mature into? The issue is the same, but people just see the big dark eyes and white fur and immediately it's 'wrong'.

Meanwhile, stuff further down the food chain is ignored because it's not photogenic enough. Where's the 'save the bottomfeeding suction eel' campaigns, eh?

And that's why they need to be clubbed to death before becoming disgusting grey slug things, eh? MR MAPLE SYRUP FACE

PEtA are a bunch of tossers.

I'm currently reading Bjorn Lomborg's 'Cool it'. His main argument is that regardless of arguments about whether the climate is changing we should be spending moeny on solutions to existing problems (such as vaccination, malnutrition, and sea defences) rather than impoverishing ourselves for little long term benefit. It's quite a convincing piece. Of course, for our politicians, grandstanding on matters 80 years hence is easier and needs less responsibility than solving tricky pressing issues.