10 crappy things about the green movement by willi paul
Submitted by Willi Paul on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 20:14
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1. Green web sites that don’t connect to actual neighborhoods – that just post, babble and ghost.
2. Big ass ego sustainability consultants who think the world will change as they get rich.
3. Green job training seminars that cost 499.00.
4. Little or no praise or support for the effort from the Latino community, period.
5. Scant connection between all of the key hot button issues -- too much weight on a climate crisis and foodies.
6. “Green Celebrities.” Crap.
7. Little scrutiny and basic integrity on now Obama’s cowering to the military industrial devils in Afghanistan.
8. The idolization of the new green cars with little planning for the day we all have NO CARS.
9. Green products, green product web sites, green product web sites that rate their own profit-driven and pre-sponsored green products.
10. Burning Man.
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10 more (+1)
1. The notion that 'more efficient' (read: slightly less wasteful) is some how the same thing as sustainable.
2. Hybrid SUVs
3. The 'smoker's mindset' to recycling and otherwise living well (I know I should, but fuck you it's my life and i don't have to if I don't want to)
4. The elephant in the room: too many fucking people (and growing) on earth.
5. If technology was supposed to make our lives calm and more relaxed and easier, which it has done the exact opposite of, why are we convinced that it can save the planet.
6. Corporate bottom lines driving us in the wrong direction.
7. Bureaucracy and it's limitless ability to get nothing done (and slowly).
8. The lack of food justice in the conversation.
9. Our collective guilt being manifested in a bunch of apololyptic movies and not enough action.
10. It's ability (or our lack of ability) to divide and factionize so many different groups who all need the same things.
Bonus: Architecture firms making millions off of Asian countries who are paving over pristine ag-lands to build ground up 'sustainable cities' for millions (also see UAE et al)
Weeds Abound!
Willi, I appreciate your list of hypocrisies within the Green Community. I have an equally long list to offer the Healing Arts/Spiritual Community -- and oddly enough it looks almost exactly like yours!