or would you rather save 6,000,000 people?
I went to see An Inconvenient Truth this evening with Laura. I was kind of planning to avoid it, selfishly feeling as though I were just the choir.
The thing is, I generally feel that I live a relatively low-impact lifestyle. I drive a pretty fuel efficient car, and I try not to drive it when I don't need to. I take the vanpool whenever I can. I recycle, and I turn most things off (ok, I like the lights on when I'm home at night), I grow a garden on my patio, I try to buy local food to save on shipping. I live in one of the most environmentally conscious cities in the country. You know, the stuff everyone else I know does.
Clearly, I was not factoring in my flights for work. Air travel is apparently one of the most polluting things we can do as single human beings -- just flying the 40,000 miles last year doubled my carbon output.
Perhaps another reason to quit?
The thing is, I generally feel that I live a relatively low-impact lifestyle. I drive a pretty fuel efficient car, and I try not to drive it when I don't need to. I take the vanpool whenever I can. I recycle, and I turn most things off (ok, I like the lights on when I'm home at night), I grow a garden on my patio, I try to buy local food to save on shipping. I live in one of the most environmentally conscious cities in the country. You know, the stuff everyone else I know does.
Clearly, I was not factoring in my flights for work. Air travel is apparently one of the most polluting things we can do as single human beings -- just flying the 40,000 miles last year doubled my carbon output.
Perhaps another reason to quit?
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10:42 PM
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Hmmm, I wonder how many carbon molecules are released during the manufacture of CD's?.....;-)
I don't buy CDs anymore, silly daddy, I buy mp3s off of the internet! So much more environmentally friendly! ;-)
Noah: go to the link for the title of the movie (top of the entry), and you'll get test yourself.
I'm glad you were convinced to see the movie, I assume by Laura. Here are a couple of thoughts to assuage your guilt:
How many shots were there of Al Gore on airplanes or in airports in that movie!!!
Keeping our cell phones operational must surely help prevent some trips, don't you think?
The documentary has long been exposed to being science fiction rather than science fact. Global warming is not man made so I wouldn't be too guilty about it. Has be been happening for billions of years - politicians are just trying to get more tax and the guilt is a convenient way of just doing that!...
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