April 22, 2008...11:55 am
Green
I am not a hippie.
But I did find myself becoming increasingly upset while listening to someone’s presentation this morning. The topic which was supposed to be discussed, government promotion of business, quite possibly one of the most boringly objective and seemingly straightforward topics available, somehow managed to turn into an environment bashing session. My talent for tuning out of presentations while somehow managing to hear every word was at work for the first bit, so I was able to take note of when the discussion took a drastic turn from the expected, and on to what she described as “global warming propaganda.”
The basic argument was this: tree-huggers worldwide march to their envirofascist drum in an attempt to control the world’s resources by inventing the fantastic claim that we are, in fact, destroying the planet; corporations have caught on to their eco-whining by creating ‘green’ products in an elaborate scheme to destroy consumers and their hard-earned paycheques; and finally, our government further screws over its citizens by making these green products easier and more accessible for companies to produce and place on the market, while still costing more than your regular product. Lovely.
There were other minor points that come to mind, like how the United Nations is a guise for world domination and only aids the envirofascists in their quest to globalize our resources. Of course, it’s clear from the UN’s attempt to have water listed as a basic human right. We all know how that turned out.
Why people continue to deny something that’s been long agreed upon by the scientific community is beyond me. It defies logic to look at just about anything we’re doing on this planet and assume that it can’t be harmful to our surroundings. I mean come on, we chug poisonous toxins out of massive factories and into the air, clearcut forests and destroy natural habitats, create smog alert worthy conditions in the summer, even genetically manipulate our food and still eat it. You don’t have to be Sherlock to know where this story ends.
The irony of today being on Earth Day was not lost on me.
2 Comments
April 28, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Your writing is beautiful, you should think about writing for a newspaper/magazine (if you haven’t already done so that is!)
May 1, 2008 at 12:53 pm
JazakAllah khair Unique! Writing is just a hobby of mine at this point, but I’ve been entertaining the idea of doing a masters in journalism and seeing where that takes me. We’ll see :)
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