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July 8, 2007
Slate Ridicules Its Own Enviro-idiocy
Posted by Dave Blount at July 8, 2007 11:52 AM
Cracks continue to spread across the environmentalism edifice as even liberals become disgusted with the phoniness, hypocrisy, hysteria, sanctimony, and downright silliness that characterize the movement. Slate takes itself to task for the "Slate Green Challenge," a series that it started publishing last fall in cooperation with the clowns at TreeHugger.org.
Readers of this series have been advised to save the planet by wearing clothes made out of substances like hemp, bamboo, and wood pulp instead of cotton. Christmas should be greenified by avoiding cards, wrapping paper, Christmas trees, etc.; instead of electric lights, good citizens of the Earth are requested to use candles "made from soy wax or beeswax."
And, if you must eat, TreeHugger says, eat locally and organically, and avoid processed food and meat.
But Slate notes that it "isn't the only victim of green-brain disease." It points to a gushing New York Times Magazine piece on a solar-hydrogen house that in reality would waste energy. Other victims of the disease include the Tinseltown tools who thought they could make the Oscars "carbon neutral" by letting themselves get swindled by TerraPass, which hawks carbon offsets that are unlikely to have any effect on the environment whatsoever.
Slate isn't ready to admit that the whole anthropogenic global warming phenomenon is a hoax. But it's getting there.
On a tip from Jose.
