These are strange times we live in.
The best news sources these days are programs on Comedy Central. If it weren't for John Stewart and Stephen Colbert I don't know where we'd be. They seem to speak to those of us with brains and common sense in this era of koolaid drinking.
So I guess it wasn't that surprising that I read the following article (sent to me by a friend) in The Onion.
[http://www.theonion.com/...]
More on the flip side.
I whine to my friends and family in much the same manner as the person who wrote this article.
"Why am I washing out these plastic bags so I can reuse them when I go to buy my organic vegetables at Whole Foods?"
"Why am I wandering around in a dim (dark?) apartment lit by one light and some candles?"
"Why did I spend more money than I can really afford on a Toyota Prius?"
The list is endless.
But it's not only that.
For everything you learn about saving the ecosystem there are 75,000 other things you're not doing and can't figure out even how to do.
Here we all are, on our computers, wasting energy.
I mean, how funny is it that I spent last night on the computer (using who knows how tons of coal), sending e-mails to various people and companies telling them to vote for environmental issues or to cut down on their particulate output.
It seems everything we do, everything we have, is designed to be as harmful to the environment as possible.
I guess what I'm after here is this -
The only way the writer of the above article can have any peace of mind (and me too, for that matter) is to know that our small sacrifices are being added to the small sacrifices of thousand or hundreds of thousands of other people so that they actually make a difference.