Adventures in an igloo

I always thought that I was some sort of eco-saviour; you know the wheat-grass drinking, yoga-practising, vegetarian, hippie type- fighting to save the environment from the claws of right wing bastards who want to transform this country into a metallic grey, smoke-spewing, "the world's largest aluminium smelter"...You know, the conservatives want something out of a Saruman/Sauron wet dream thingy. Well, I don't want that kind of future- the future I dream of is green like the Incredible Hulk and Kermit...

Ok, maybe I think wheat-grass juice tastes like puke, I can't stretch worth shite (no-yoga policy) and I seriously enjoy a big fat burger once in a blue moon...but nontheless, I have spent days on end fighting the Man for the thousand year old canyons, glacial rivers, reindeer, seals, birdies and cute flowers.

Little did I know- I took that blasted eco-footprint test and guess what: it would take 4 frigging planet Earth's to sustain eco-friendly people like me!

Now I felt bewildered, betrayed and all that when I got the results, but after looking at the whole thing in perspective, I have realised what one needs to be to be eco enough for these people: the home will have to be a box with no electricity and no water, the means of transport being none whatsoever, the food will be nonexistent...this simply means that in order to be eco enough one needs to be DEAD!

# posted by Björkin : 12:59 PM