What a bunch of hypocrites! Your “save the earth” ecology group wastes all that time DRIVING downtown in your cars (plural) to protest the AGM of the company that provides power to your homes. Don’t act all high and mighty in defense of the planet and expect people passing by to believe you don’t use electricity in your homes. Of course you do! Where did you get those spectacularly ridiculous outfits/costumes from? Made in China, that’s where. Nice carbon footprint. If you’re going to protest, at least live by what you’re preaching, otherwise shut the fuck up and stay in your homes enjoying the benefits of electricity. —Alternating Current
This article appears in May 5-11, 2011.
Don’t you know OP. When the eco-druids & anarcho-primitivists preach their sermons about how “WE” need to devolve to a third world level, what they really mean is “YOU” In their monomaniacal fundamentalism they wind up sounding like a cross between Napoleon the Pig:
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and Mathias from “The Omega Man”
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…after all, in order to get her snout in the trough Dizzy Ms. Lizzie didn’t exactly traverse our great nation on a windmill propelled bicyle or a Greenpunk Zeppelin held aloft by her own methane.
i hear greens make an excellent fuel source..all that fibre they eat makes a long lasting even flame…:)
Sure, after all, cow chips are essentially nothing but dried grass; and they are shapeless, dirty and smell bad too. I learned that from Survivorman Les Stroud. I won’t tell you what I learned from Bear Grylls. Eeeewwwwwwwwwww!>: 0
How about we gather up all the protesters/greenies and put them on large hamster wheels to power the province. Come on greenies…..you know it’ll save the earth, so get on that wheel.
OP you clearly don’t know any of the protesters personally. If you did you wouldn’t have made the crack about “driving downtown in your cars”.
Many (if not most) of the good folks who work at the prominent environmental organization which conducted the protest ride bicycles wherever they go in this fair city.
The point of the protest was to highlight Nova Scotia Power’s emphasis on producing electricity using imported coal instead of investing more in currently underdeveloped “green” technologies like wind power.
Perhaps you should take your own advice and STFU.
The other day I had the pleasure of driving behind a late 90s shitbox car with the Dartmouth refinery coming out of it’s tailpipe with a “replant.ca” bumper sticker. Made me lawl. And no they weren’t on their way to a car repair shop at 10 pm on a Sunday, they were on their way to Sobeys.
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I love it when I see CoNServation License plates on hummers or big trucks ‘with a hemi’.
Well Cranky, if you can think of a better way to get to where the big bucks are; I’d like to hear it^^^
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bang on o.p., i cannot understand these fucking nutbars either. they yammer and whine about all this save the planet shit, then go out to bar b ques and shit, some driving big fucking atv’s, and other noisy stinking poluting type of things. and when they get their food, it’s organic, and all kinds of chemicals to help it along, that are more harmful, than the regular shit that most farmer’s use.
Having working in ecology and marine conservation for sometime I started to become sick of it. I think the major turning point for me came while working on the supposed Lionfish ‘Apocolypse’ in the Atlantic. If you’re not familiar with the situation, it basically entails an invasive species that was introduced to the Atlantic roughly 15 years ago that has spread like crazy. Being a voracious predator it was deemed an enemy of the marine community. So after years of government funding, studies, chaos, panicking, and my personal favorite, mass killings of these fish, the oddest thing happened : the fucking ecosystem adapted and the population began to level off. People need to stop perceiving the earth as some fragile helpless entity that is never supposed to change.
Here’s my favourite eco-fable:
Every year we have a seal hunt on the East Coast, which for various reasons, some rational and some not, has been very unpopular in various parts of the world.
Lately a lot of folks in the dwindling fishing community have been blaming the burgeoning seal population for the scarcity of fish, ergo we must have an aggressive seal hunt every year to eliminate those nasty predators and save some fish for ourselves.
What this line of reasoning ignores is the fact that, when Europeans first arrived in these waters they were amazed at the bountiful fishing grounds. Stories were told by these early fishers of simply lowering baskets into the Atlantic and pulling them up full of fish. Presumably these waters were also home to the same seal populations as they are now, unless of course the seals arrived later on a Federation starship warping through time on an urgent mercy mission to save a sentient species from total annihilation . . .
I digress. The fish and the seals were part of an ecosystem in balance. The only thing that changed was the advent of huge fishing fleets with large tackle that scooped up everything in the ocean – yes even rubber boots.
The fish are gone but it wasn’t the seals that ate them to extinction, contrary to the “eco-fable” told by the fishermen and seal hunters. The ocean was fished out by fishermen – plain and simple.
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Well put, C. Esposito. Been my argument all along concerning seals. The cod stocks and the seals co-existed for tens and, presumably, hundreds of thousands of years before the last couple of centuries. It’s the advent of commercial fishing technology that has caused the fish stocks to plummet. Seal culls are the governments way of throwing a bone to the fishing industry. I don’t think there’s much hard science behind it.
Yes, there is some hypocrisy in the way some people protest on behalf of the “planet” and drive SUVs and eat apples from Chile but getting the word out and keeping environmental issues in the public consciousness is ” no lose” situation.
Your point is taken Anton, ecosystems can adapt and re-adapt but often they don’t. We can’t underestimate the damage we can do with our demand for resources particularly with the population growing the way it is.
Changing to a green society is a transition that is not going to be easy. We’re conditioned as a society to be able to use what we want, use how ever much we want and dispose of it how we feel. Hell, we can’t even agree on clear vs. black bags never mind redesigning cities and highways to foster less of a carbon footprint.
Anyway, I guess my point to the OP is “get used to it”.
OP is a fuck wit, we have no choice but to use dirty electricity, or move to the woods and live like bears.
Since the woods are Crown Land and the water poison, I doubt this will work.
Also; if our power company wasn’t privatized, power wouldn’t have gone up so much, and also, MR ALTERNATING CURRENT; you are more DIRECT CURRENT… As in; if we had Telsa running the show with actual AC, no one would need to protest the power plant.
Sorry, I should add that I don’t by any means think the destruction of any ecosystem is a good thing, or that all of them are capable of bouncing back in a reasonable amount of time. I would say, though, that considering the big picture, nothing short of Darth Vader ordering the Deathstar to blow up Earth will eradicate life completely. At the last conference I was at, dealing with the status of certain fish populations, one of the speakers ended by pointing out that Earth will just be engulfed by the Sun someday anyway, I got a kick out of that.