Hateful Environmentalist
A long time ago, I said I didn’t care about the environment, and, don’t get me wrong or lying here, I still think the same way, but I feel the urge to clarify some of my hatred for helping Mother Earth.
First, I don’t actively hate the planet; I simply have no regard for it. It is simply a massive chunk of rock floating in space that we, as humans, live on. If there are terrible things that must be done to get the things I need and want like beer and condoms, so be it. The Earth be damned along with any other obstacle. That pretty much sums up my previous rant in different words.
To continue, I am absolutely willing to participate in ’save the whales’ escapades as long as I, personally, benefit from it – or if the indirect benefits serve the ends that I believe in like space travel, robot bodies, or something like that. Solar power immediately comes to mind, but that’s not the best, simplest example, and I’ll get to that. A good example is Xeriscaping.
If you’re not aware of what Xeriscaping is, it’s a method of landscaping your yard in a way that matches the local biosphere. Xeriscaping is pushed harder in drier climates where water is more scarce. The goal of Xeriscaping is to conserve water because you don’t have to water the yard at all and it still looks like it’s supposed to: total shit. I’m not sure what the tip-off was that I don’t like it, but it serves as a good example because it saves me yard work.
Also, I like the move away from paper forms and such. A lot of things can be done online and a major selling point is that it saves paper, which, in turn saves trees from the lumberyard. I don’t give a shit. I like paperless systems because it means I don’t have as much crap stacked up in physical file folders. Digital is so much easier for me.
Solar power research deserves its own rant though, so I’ll try to be brief here. Actually, once I think about it solar power research doesn’t really belong in this rant very much, but it might. It could belong here though if the resources required to fabricate solar cells harms the planet in some way. Personally, I don’t know – but if it did, I’d say “so what?” It furthers my interests.
I’ll participate in your gay tree-hugging parade and it may looklike I want to make the world a greener place, but no – I just want more and cooler stuff to make my life easier. I want my Xbox!
Tags: hate, neurotic, technology, ugly