Why do people take this so personally? Having rational conversation on the internet is like getting lost in a cave. Plenty of non-sequitors and misdirection.
I cited an example of people, who DO NOT TRAVEL TO FUCKING PUERTO RICO, PORTLAND, OR INDIA FOR FUCKING WORK YOU FUCKING TARD.. I was not making a blanket statement about all humans on Earth. Just used an example. Get a grip. If your work requires you to travel somehwere, then that's on them, not you. I'm not about policing somebody's carbon footprint. I'm more for better infrastructure from the energy production and utilization side.
The question is:
If a person drives a Jetta (popular car for hipsters for some reason) and travels on jet planes for leisure (to visit, to marvel in their worldliness, etc.) - and if that person uses as much (or more) carbon footprint as the person who drives a Hummer H3 (Hummer = contrasting posterboy for asshole polluters) - then is this person in the Jetta also scoffed at in the same way as the Hummer driver? Fuck no.
I've never seen some clever graphic depicting an academic traveling to India to write a thesis paper on Urban poor and meanwhile taking a trip around the world for the fuck of it - in a negative "youre an asshole for polluting the planet" connotation.
The whole point is that there is a fad element to it. (Atleast, here in the states)
You could fly all over the damn place because you have the money but still be able to criticize your neighbor who drives a stupid Hummer that gets 10 miles per gallon less than a normal car. America is full of hypocrisy and bumper-sticker slogans that perpetuate most of our politics. "support the troops" blah blah.
This isn't a black and white, with us or against us, type deal.
The world isn't ready to look beyond convenient politically correct environmentalism, so I'll leave this kind person's livejournal alone from now on, as I've intruded enough already.
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Date: 2008-07-22 08:11 am (UTC)I cited an example of people, who DO NOT TRAVEL TO FUCKING PUERTO RICO, PORTLAND, OR INDIA FOR FUCKING WORK YOU FUCKING TARD.. I was not making a blanket statement about all humans on Earth. Just used an example. Get a grip. If your work requires you to travel somehwere, then that's on them, not you. I'm not about policing somebody's carbon footprint. I'm more for better infrastructure from the energy production and utilization side.
The question is:
If a person drives a Jetta (popular car for hipsters for some reason) and travels on jet planes for leisure (to visit, to marvel in their worldliness, etc.) - and if that person uses as much (or more) carbon footprint as the person who drives a Hummer H3 (Hummer = contrasting posterboy for asshole polluters) - then is this person in the Jetta also scoffed at in the same way as the Hummer driver? Fuck no.
I've never seen some clever graphic depicting an academic traveling to India to write a thesis paper on Urban poor and meanwhile taking a trip around the world for the fuck of it - in a negative "youre an asshole for polluting the planet" connotation.
The whole point is that there is a fad element to it. (Atleast, here in the states)
You could fly all over the damn place because you have the money but still be able to criticize your neighbor who drives a stupid Hummer that gets 10 miles per gallon less than a normal car. America is full of hypocrisy and bumper-sticker slogans that perpetuate most of our politics. "support the troops" blah blah.
This isn't a black and white, with us or against us, type deal.
The world isn't ready to look beyond convenient politically correct environmentalism, so I'll leave this kind person's livejournal alone from now on, as I've intruded enough already.