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An Inconvenient Truth -- for blog-surfing jackasses
God, people are so annoying. A gadgety blog I read daily posted a picture of Al Gore's office, admiring his multi-monitor setup and joking about how he needs to get a copy of Conquer the Clutter to combat the rest of his desktop. I think it's a neat setup, personally, although that much clutter would be insane.
Five of the first seven comments are people sneering about how much energy those monitors must use and how Al should turn in his Oscar, and their arguing at anyone who says that bringing the world's attention to a problem threatening the entire planet shouldn't be punished by critiquing his every non-environmentally-friendly breath.
People, what do you want? Are you not allowed to champion a cause unless you're a paragon of every virtue? His three monitors aren't singlehandedly throwing the planet into global warming, and most of the rest of you jackasses also use multiple monitors without giving back to the cause a fraction as much as Al Gore does. He's renovating his house to fix his energy consumption and he has solar panels on his roof that collect so much energy he sells some back to power companies. Those monitors are used to do immense good, okay??
I'm just struck by all of these people complaining about something they themselves do because it comes from someone with a slightly related moral standpoint that might be hypocritical if you look at him with blinders on. He flies commercial now to reduce his environmental impact. A man who once had a private jet. Maybe, just maybe, the private jet was less environmentally friendly? Will they not be happy until he lives in a hut made of sticks on a riverbank, and comes out to rant about the environment unshaven and clad only in furs?
Five of the first seven comments are people sneering about how much energy those monitors must use and how Al should turn in his Oscar, and their arguing at anyone who says that bringing the world's attention to a problem threatening the entire planet shouldn't be punished by critiquing his every non-environmentally-friendly breath.
People, what do you want? Are you not allowed to champion a cause unless you're a paragon of every virtue? His three monitors aren't singlehandedly throwing the planet into global warming, and most of the rest of you jackasses also use multiple monitors without giving back to the cause a fraction as much as Al Gore does. He's renovating his house to fix his energy consumption and he has solar panels on his roof that collect so much energy he sells some back to power companies. Those monitors are used to do immense good, okay??
I'm just struck by all of these people complaining about something they themselves do because it comes from someone with a slightly related moral standpoint that might be hypocritical if you look at him with blinders on. He flies commercial now to reduce his environmental impact. A man who once had a private jet. Maybe, just maybe, the private jet was less environmentally friendly? Will they not be happy until he lives in a hut made of sticks on a riverbank, and comes out to rant about the environment unshaven and clad only in furs?
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(Besides, I remember hearing somewhere that the only thing delaying his household from being all but entirely self-sufficient is that there's been delay getting building permits and stuff for the things he wants to do.)
Why some people think that you can EITHER be an environmentalist OR you can have nice things, that's just beyond me. Especially when making nice things good for the environment is getting to be a more and more prevalent industry.