The Green Nonsense ...

SEE HERE I don't know about your yard, but dig into my yard very far and you start finding rocks. Big rocks, little rocks, medium sized rock ... pretty rocks, ugly rocks, brown rocks, yellow rocks, sedimentary rocks, igneous rocks ... just all kinds of rocks and they've likely been around for millions of years. They are not very biodegradable. If you dig down in West Virginia or parts of Virginia you come upon black rocks, well coal is the name. It's been around for a long time and used to be wood or something organic. I don't know if that counts as biodegradable or not. But the question is whether it matters or not? If I bury plastic then it's like rocks. In fact, unlike coal, it's a little harder to tell where oil came from. Maybe some other biodegradable stuff like rats or cats or something. But it's gooey stuff that is in the ground and has been for a long time. It's hard to get very excited about biodegradability unless we're talking about something that if it doesn't degrade it kills you and plastic just doesn't do it. So it's like rocks.

It is a measure of our great and vaunted free time with nothing to do that we have a whole lot of people who label themselves "green" who want to be little tyrants over the rest of us and make us do stuff like not use plastic, recycle paper to make more paper using lots more nasty chemicals to make worse paper than it was before, or recycle [____ fill in the blank with some damn rock like thing that you don't like ___] and make electricity inefficiently out of wind, tides, sunlight (if the solar cells were at all efficient this would be cool) and other stuff so that they will feel good. The problem with this green bunch is 1) they usually don't know what they are talking about, 2) they exaggerate the harm that something like a coal burning power plant is causing, and exaggerate the benefit from something inefficient and much more expensive like wind turbines. They are full of more hot air than the Wizard of Oz's balloon. I think we should put the environmentalists to work in the free market so that they actually earn their keep doing something useful before they give the rest of us an ulcer, make things more expensive and cause at least as many problems as they claim to solve. SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT, EAT AN ENVIRONMENTALIST! would that be a good bumper sticker. SEE HERE TOO AND HERE