Ursidae69 said:
I agree that the site I linked is an exercise in hypocrisy, that is why I posted it, to spur discussion, but why are you sick and tired of hearing about being "green". I'm not sure what you mean but there isn't anything wrong with people not being hypocrites and living simpler using less resources. Sorry if you're sick of that. :smilies27
The text below is in no way reflected towards you Ursidae69. General ramblings, about things in general about this Green movement.
Let me start off by saying, I want less (or no) pollution, clean air and water would be nice. I am all for consuming less, waste less, renew, reuse. More renewable energy sources. Would love to have a solar/wind powered house. Bio-fuel burning vehicles...(if they are found to be less polluting, from a nonfood source)...you catch my drift. "
Oh lord, would please buy me some solar panels? All my friends have wind turbines, I need to make Amens..." ...sorry for the slaughter of your song Janice.
This what I don't like. People flying the Global Warming flag to sell products. If you were truely trying to be "green", you wouldn't buy more crap... The Earth is in a constant state of change. We are foolish to think we can stop or control those changes. It warms, it cools. To our knowledge, it always had, always will. (well, until the our sun swells, and cooks our little blue planet) We as humans, still do not, and may never truely understand why the Earth goes through these cycles. The Global Warming advocates, sure will tell you that we are to blame, and are trying to make us feel guilty for driving a car, flying in an airplane, while they are are flying in an airplane, ******? I don't know about you, I am just trying to eek out a living, and trying have a little fun before I die. Everything, and I mean
everything we do this modern world requires the use of fossil fuels. It is simply mind boggling. How much we use. Unless we moderns, go back to living like the Amish. I really have no idea how we will ever get off of fossil fuels.
A client the other week, was reading the Green Issue of Vanity Fair. She looks up to me and says, "Where in the hell do these Hollywood people get off in telling
me how to be earth friendly, when they themselves live a life of
excess!?" I nodded in agreement. " I dunno..."
Carbon credits are total bull****. Who in the hell came up with that!? Sounds more like certain religion I know of. Simply live a life of sin, and
hey, at the
end, just
repent. Then everything, is all fine and dandy...well, hell...sign me up for that. That sounds pretty damn good!
Sorry, I am sick of hearing the words "Green" and "Global Warming"....maybe it is the mouths the words are coming from.
Let's face it, it isn't fossil fuels that are the problem, people are, way too many of them. I don't hear Al Gore promoting that we get spayed or nuetered. No that would be atroshish, wouldn't it? Or at least promoting people to
not have children. I know my choice not have them lessens the strain on the earth's resources. But, that wouldn't be very popular, would it? I know the guy with the wife and 2 kids driving the Prius, uses a heck of alot more resources than myself. Yet, he gives me a dirty look because my lifestyle is different than his. I get a heck of alot of flack from my "Green" friends for riding dirt bikes. Ummm...hey man,
what about those kiddies you have!? How are you better than me?
I am growing to loath the green movement and the hypocrisy.
Or maybe it bothers me on a personal note.
Finally....
fricken,
finally,I can afford to ride dirt bikes. I have dreamed and dreamed when I was a kid to ride them motorcycles in the dirt. I wasn't allowed and we couldn't afford them when I was younger.
Ya see, my father contracted MS in his mid twenties. Most of our money went to medical bills. My mother had to get a couple part time jobs, to pay for blood transfusions, among other things... I grew up with my dad in a wheelchair. I never had those father son adventures. My recent trip to Colorado, seeing some father son duos reminded me of that...made me quite sad really. (I wish my dad was here...type thoughts...) As I write this, he lays in his bed barely able to move, the MS has been slowly engulfing his body over the past 30 years. He is only 57 years of age. A horrible thing to witness. Because of that, I try to live life to the fullist, I'll be damned if some hyprocrital green SOB, is going to stop me. For f%@ks sake. We are here for so little time....Eat, Drink, and sleep around with Mary. Geeesh!
So anyway...a little personal history. I now can ride those dirt bikes, and let me tell you, it is the most fun one can have with their clothes on.
Now, I have some
new environmental person telling me, that my passion is evil. I am killing the earth. Global Warming and Green are being used as ammo against my passion, my dream. Trails are closing everywhere. Finally living my dream.
Now it's wrong. I truely don't know why we can't share the trails. In my view the Sierra Clubbers are selfish, unwilling to share the great outdoors, which I love. We
ALL cause damage one way or another. My passion uses far less resources than that Prius....(growing to hate those cars, or maybe it's the social statement they make)....My bike is steel, aluminum, and plastic....nearly 100% recyclable. More than I can say for that Hybrid. (I am using that car as a reference, because I had a run in with an owner of one)
There is the erosion issue...ummm sir, I don't know if you checked or not. The Earth itself is the largest cause of erosion.
The emissions issue....yeah yeah...your Prius still burns fossil fuels,too....what do you think those tires and plastics are made from?
The noise issue...ok, you got me there...would be nice if the KTM was silent. 86db isn't bad.
Knowing that you, me, the Earth, our sun, the solar system are
all born to die. All of
this, really truely doesn't matter...the Earth does a good job of whiping itself clean and starting over. There have been 5 known mass extinctions. I don't feel too bad for finally living my dream. So, I just want to have a little fun before I meet my maker (
that is, if there is one), please don't make me feel guilty for doing so.
I could sell my KTM, my VW bus, my Tacoma, ride my bicycle to work, (which I do when the temperature drops)....I could sell all of those things, buy solar panels to mount on the roof. For what I ask? To feel a little less guilt, to get the "nod" from the guy in the Hybrid down the street? Those fossil fuel burning evil beasts, give me a life of adventure...I choose adventure.
-Ok, end rant- I'll crawl back into my hole now...
