Post in What do you do?

2007 Mar 12 14:07 UTC

Hi All!

The planet doesn't need ME to save it.  In fact, I am one of those clear
thinkers who believe that man is way too puny and around for way to short a
time to mess up the planet.

I do "green" things when they make economic sense, I've installed a few CF
bulbs just to see how good they are and I don't have any problem with them.
Someone will correct me perhaps, but I wonder if replacing and good bulb
with a new CF "really" pays for itself as some have claimed.  I'd bet 90% of
the incandescents that came with the house 18 years ago still burn brightly
and I have dozens of spares stored in the basement, so I won't be converting
over any time soon -- or anytime in my lifetime.

I AM an invetrate light-turner-offer which is almost a full time job living
with a wife and 3 kids who turn on every light in a room and then go away.
I am motivated not so much be saving the earth as being of a mind that
wasting not means wanting not.

One thing I have always seen as a virtue is recycling -- sometimes we have
more of that than trash!  Nothing recyclable goes in our wastebaskets (well,
the kids toss bottles and cans but I dig them out).

I take the cans to the Rosetown Legion where they are a great fundraiser.
Rather help the club than BFI.

I sold my Trooper SUV last fall and I bought a Honda...scooter, which the
whole family put over 300 hundred miles on it, using about 6 gallons.  Great
for short errands and trips, nice for touring too!  Wish I could use the
bike paths -- bikes are faster so I don't understand why using has instead
of muscle to go 20mph forces me onto the mean streets.

Of course, our furnace and water heater and A/C are all fairly new and were
sold as energy savers.

So what I am tortuously trying to say, is that I don't believe in Global
Warming and Earth isn't running out of anything anytime soon, but I have
done some  reducing of my "carbon footprint" (sounds like something you'd
track into the house and get on the carpet).  I am motivated by simple
virtues that were instilled in me many years before saving energy and
recycling were considered.  Waste not, want not (oops sorry to repeat
myself)

As far as life on earth being threatened, I fear more of a fatal bee sting
or a terrorist attack.

I agree with Roger that they earth has the power to destroy itself, but we
got nothin' to do wit it. Never heard of the poles switching -- sounds
pretty nasty.  But it can't be true because we are all being brainwashed
into thinking that we are somehow the only REAL threat to the planet.

Horse Hockey.