It's not easy being green. It's a cliche, but it's also true. The toughest part is realizing that as a young, urban greenie in TO, you haven't got a clue as to how you really maintain that urban lifestyle. You can calculate all your carbon emissions 'till the cows come home (a cliche, too, but where are those urban cows???) but just living in an Eastern urban centre hurts mother earth. Afterall, where does that vine-ripened organic tomato come from, in February, in frozen Toronto? How did it get there? Or the organic milk in your fair-trade coffee? How much energy did it take and how much bad, bad carbon was spewed so you could live in your downtown condo and still eat like a central american peasant? Just the fact that you can survive in sub-arctic Toronto is a testament to your disdain for Gaia, for you must heat your abode in winter, cool it in summer, reduce the humidity most of the time, pipe in your water (after chlorintaing it), buy synthetic clothing so as not to freeze on your commute, and generally use massive amounts of unclean energy just to survive.
I am so much better than you just because I live on the West Coast. I barely have to heat my apartment at all, I don't need to buy four different season's worth of clothing, humidity just isn't a problem, and my organic, vine-ripened tomato is grown a couple of kilometers from here. Yup, it's not easy being green, but it's not too hard being me.
2 comments:
Wow what a smug and simplistic view. Your “logic” seems based purely upon arrogant assumption and a seemingly undeserved ego.
Blogs are a great tool for discovering that assholes live in all parts of this country.
Congratulations on your first comment, it’s one more than you deserve, asshole.
For starters, you're not my first comment. And frankly, quality-wise, it's hardly worth reading.
Still, it seems to my logic-impaired mind that the smug urban greens (Especially ones living in harsh Northern climes) start out with a rather large eco-footprint, and driving a Smart-car and buying organic doesn't do that much. To me, simplistic is buying into recycling even though studies indicate that more energy is used in the recycling process than in the original manufacture. Simplistic is not taking the energy input to ethanol production into account when discussing it as an alternative fuel. And simplistic is thinking turning down your heat 2 degrees in frozen T.O. is a serious blow to GHG emissions. But then I'm just a simplistic asshole who should be grateful some anonymous troll took the time to say nothing on my little blog :-)
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