It’s Getting Hot In Here

Cross-posted from the Breakthrough Generation blog

The American climate change movement has come of age, and has begun to set its sights on bigger and bolder goals – out with light bulbs and clotheslines, in with Lieberman-Warner. Outside of the rarefied circles of the Sierra Club and the eco-blogosphere, however, it seems that few Americans have got the memo. Even as cap-and-trade legislation dies an undignified death and the U.S. blows the rest of the world a big raspberry on emissions targeting, “green” living gets trendier and trendier. Americans from all walks of life are getting in on the fun – from your average Joe switching light bulbs and browsing the aisles of Wal-Mart (now stocked with organic food and Clorox’s green cleaning products) to moneyed elites enjoying green spa treatments. Sometimes these actions are motivated in part by increasingly costly electricity and gasoline, but others involve price premiums and extra effort, and clearly reflect a desire to “do something green.” Continue reading ‘What does a trash-loving misanthrope have to teach environmentalists?’