Cracked Up Environmentalism

 

Stupidity has no limits ! Why not not have AC. We ve done pretty good without AC all these years !

Mark Johnston

Might as well fit a bucket to the exhaust pipe of a big 4x4 and feel proud of saving the environment by collecting water as you drive around. The world cannot sustain the lifestyles of people who heat their houses so much that they can wear just tshirts in every room in the depths of winter or those who overcool their houses with air conditioning.

Aparna Krishnan

i cannot understand people's utter stupidity. To fiddle thus when villages are burning down.

Mark Johnston

Perhaps the reality is too hard to face so the brain, unconciously, protects itself by fooling itself into believing that in reorganising the deck chairs it is doing its bit to save the Titanic.

Minimalism, Eco, Green ... words which allow elite living along with some self adulatory gestures. A circle of elitism.

Simplicity, austerity. Gandhi. ... public transport, walking, simple meals, no glass walled hotels, no expensive holidays or health resorts. Living simply, sharing easily. ... words that have substance, than demand a spine.

Tired of upper class gimmicks. They will not simplify their lifestyles, turn off their A/Cs, start using public buses. They will have meetings and melas on environment. They will drive down to these in A/Ced cars. They will discuss details of rainwater haresting in ivory towers. And details of composting in multi cuisine kitchens.

Just went to a mela close by. There if one gives 5 used plastic covers, they promised a 'cloth bag'. Rich people drove down with their children, bringing 5 plastic covers each. The cloth bag was enbossed with the CSR sponser's name. It was not a simple useful cloth bag like the women of Paalaguttapalle make. This was a plastic lined small jute bag, just a 'feel good' bag, not really useful.

Only rich people came. No ordinary people, who lead by default a simply, non consuming life, and who's streets these rich people need to do to to understand what real conserving, rooted in an essential simplicity, means.

Asked Kavya and Jayanthi from the village if they wanted to go there in the evening end exchange five covers for a small jute bag. Kanya was not interested. She told me she was going to the temple in the evening with Jayanthi and my daughter. The three of them were baking a cake on the stove then.

These gimmicks seem to interest the prepetrators of environment excesses most.