I love when people start talking about saving the planet, buying organic food and having a green life style. Today is Earth Day which can also be known as hypocrite day.
Let me start with all the people that drive a Prius and think they are saving the planet, and I have more than a dozen friends on this category so they will forgive me for telling the truth.
Prius is not a "green car". No hybrid is a green. They are still internal combustion engines which *do* releases all kinds of bad stuff into the air, except instead of putting 100 lbs of shit in the air per year, they put 70 lbs of shit. Yay! Mother Earth thanks you.
Now, let's suppose that everybody on the planet decide to stop using their cars and either ride a bike, use a hydrogen or electric car or walk to work. How much good would this do to global warming and saving the planet? Zilch! Nada! Nothing! Surprised?
Most of the polution that is destroying the planet doesn't come from cars, or from any other source where individuals have control over. They come from airplanes, factories, power plants, big delivery trucks, trains, etc.
Here is a fun fact: A single cross-country airplane trip will probably generate all the carbon monoxide your car will generate all year long*.
The sad part is that I don't have an answer fo us to save the planet, but I know for sure people telling me to not print an email to save some trees is not it!
Happy Earth Day, Earth.
* Need to verify this claim, but I'm pretty sure it's true.
You haven't been to Delhi :). The pollution directly correlates to the increase in the number of cars and winters in Delhi have changed dramatically due to the smog (the amount of industry has not changed significantly).
On the flip side, the increase in pollution levels was arrested (well slowed down) by one simple move, mandating at all mass transit (taxis, buses, etc) switch to CNG.
I agree with you on the hypocrisy, since I think too many people do it just to look good. However individual action never hurts. It is very easy to say that you can't make a difference. Sometimes one action at a time, over a generation or two, adds up. It's worth the chance. (30 lbs multiplied by every auto driver in the world would make a difference. It might be small, but small is not zero)
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- 4/22/2008 6:06 AM
October, 2007