It's over 60 degrees right now, and I have the French doors open in the living room. So nice.
On a related note, Chris and I are finally going to watch An Inconvenient Truth tonight. We've already replaced most of our incandescent bulbs with CFLs at this point, so I'm hoping that will alleviate some of the horrible, horrible guilt.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
If You Live in Alaska, Don't Read This
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It won't work. If your'e loike me, you'll leave so depressed that you'll want to go eat some endangered spcies, because they're going to die anyway.
Actually, what really frustrates me is how many people I know whose behavior neither Al Gore nor I can change - people who won't change to CFL bulbs, who *recently* bought giant gas guzzlers, who have the means to go hybrid but don't. I can't even get people to put a blanket around their hot water heaters. Drives me crazy. Americans suck.
Eric, you're supposed to be the cheery one! I came all ready to be "there's no hope, only DOOM!" and I was preempted!
*ahem*
THERE IS NOOOO HOOOOPE. ONLLLY DOOOOOM.
There.
Wait, so you're telling me that even if I use the widely accepted formula { [(Eric's opinion) + (Miriam's opinion)]/2 = Level_Headedness }, the result is "We're screwed"? OH NOES
When you say "don't read this" do you REALLY think that I won't? Or are you purposefully trying to torture me. Especially since I was just starting to get out of vacation mode and appreciate Anchorage for what it is. F-ing cold!
I'm one of the "bad" people that hasn't replaced their CFL bulbs. It's not that I don't want to, I honestly just keep forgetting! Terrible excuse - Maybe I should just go club a baby seal.
No, no - I'm still the cheery one. I just occasionally am overwhelmed with despair. Hey, it happened to Ghandi, it happened to MLK, jr., and I'm *just* *like* those guys. So I don't see why it can't happen to me some times.
In this case my despair was driven by a recent gChat with a friend who jokingly said, "yeah, how am I supposed to change the world?" and then was taken aback when I gave him a couple of easy ways to get on the ball. Anyway, my optimism relies heavily on technology and government action coming in to save the day. I just hope we don't kill the planet with our own wastefulness before that happens.
I saw a great analogy/comic in my local alternative weekly that likened Americans to dogs that will kill themselves by overeating if they have access to food.
Thanks for telling us about the weather Kirsten. It was 16 degrees today. Snowing, and actually really pretty. So when the whole earth fries, we'll have a few years on you guys. Unless an asteroid hits us first. So there.
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