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"Your Eco-Footprint measures 178.2% of an average American Footprint." I am a bad girl. I'm good on food but really crappy on tranportation and housing. |
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i should be up there with cat. |
and for the record. it's all complete bullshit and means NOTHING. PROPAGANDA |
not bad for an Angelino i think. |
if i were an angelino, i'd be low like you. |
It would be less except that I am lazy, and travel for work. |
but those miles/kilometers/gallons/gas questions fucked with my math converting skills. |
I always thought I was pretty environmentally friendly. Guilt, guilt, guilt. |
i am an ecological rocker! |
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[hee, laughing cause that ain't like me] |
i would ideally set aside 25% to other species. "it requires 5.7 earths to support each member of the present human population at your standard of living." this means i must now kill at least 82% of you to attain this. i am encouraging vrifs where possible but there will undoubtedly be pink slips. |
300+ miles a week in a crappy old car alone. hydroelectric power, but pushing for wind. i wish we americans weren't so wasteful. |
but I'm not sure how helpful I'm being when my 2,000-calories-a-day food choices are sparkling water imported from italy, mangos from mexico, bell peppers from dutch hothouses, frozen yogurt from vermont, grapes from chile, sockeye salmon from alaska, frozen ratatouille from france. but in a great concession to environmentalism, I make sure that all my granny smith apples come from right here in washington! |
it's not hard, when the best apples in the grocery store are organic fujis that are so big and delicious and the juices drips down your arm when you take a bite. smile with the while flesh between your teeeth. it takes 8+ miles to get to the max from home and my bike is broken. boohoo. |
how many food stampers do you think can afford to buy only organic produce? I know I pay more because I live in a big city, but in stores around here, organic produce can cost $2 more a pound than the other stuff. I would have considered buying the electro-gas hybrid toyota if it were only a couple thousand dollars (instead of $8,000) more than the little echo I got. and a lot of the poor people I know drive shitty old gas-guzzling clunkers. they should be ashamed of themselves! I eat a whole lot of locally grown, in-season food when I go (via polluting airplanes) to the tropics. but it's not like I'm going to eat potatoes all winter long in the pacific northwest. I know that's what a lot of people do in eastern europe -- cabbage and beets and potatoes for eight months out of the year -- but it's not healthy to eat that way. I have a friend who seems self-congratulatory when he claims he produces very little garbage. that's because he eats out in restaurants all the time; he can afford to have someone else carry his waste to the dumpster. just because his meals come from places with names that start with "la" and "il" doesn't mean those empty cartons don't end up in the same old landfills. I always feel guilty when I go shopping and need a bag -- how many points is that worth? |
cleaned my room the other day. went through piles of papers books and pens. threw out one bag of trash and recycled: one bag of paper, two bags of plastic bags and one and a half bags of bottles and cans. i have about four boxes of clothes shoes and magazines to sell/give away. more is in a basement closet. |
and I pretend that all these things make some small difference, but I don't actually believe it. because I wash my clothes and heat my apartment and use canned goods and drive my car to the gym and use a computer and take daily showers and clean the toilet with bleach and have a refrigerator and eat at restaurants and breathe oxygen and go to the movies and work in an air-conditioned office and eat turkey sandwiches and drink coffee and buy imported goods and buy new cotton clothes. none of it matters. if you really care, I'm convinced that the very best you can do is get sterilized and convince others to do the same. |
there's not much else i can do at this point. i love being around small children. not that i'm going to have any for a looooooooong time. |