Is "going green" the biggest fraud in the world

Question

I'm pretty sick and tired of hearing these idiot liberals like al gore go around and tell everyone to start going green, then they hope in their private jet and go back to their 10,000 sqft. mansion. They use up the energy of a small town, but that's ok because they bought carbon offsets. Well ####, I can't afford carbon offsets!!! Is that what this is all about? Forcing the poor and middle class people to sacrifice their lifestyle and spend more money to save the environment, while rich, liberal snobs like Gore don't have to do anything? What's the point of me even trying if some jerk or some big company can simply pollute all they want and buy carbon offsets to keep the liberal enviro-terrorists off their back?

Answer 1

For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales!

But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've trumped up haven't been large enough to give the sinister prize they want most of all: total control of American politics, economic activity, and even individual behavior.

Answer 2

People confuse Going Green with Global Warming. They can be related but aren't the samething. I consider myself pretty green and I think of it this way, I'm trying to reduce my impact on the earth as a whole. The only big expense I've made is getting solar panels. Most of my other choices have saved me money and created a healthier environment for myself.

I don't argue about climate change or global warming I focus on the pollution I create with my lifestyle, and the amount of energy I consume. I reduce packaging by buying fresh foods, instead of processed foods. I reduce the amount of gas used to get me my food by shopping for most of my produce and meat at a local farmers market. I reduce the garbage I send to the landfill by buying durable reusable items instead of disposable one use items. I compost my food scraps using a worm farm. I do spend a little more on clothes so I can get organic cotton or recycled polyester, but I over all spend less because I'm buying what I need not everything I think is cute. I've reduced the toxins and chemicals in my cleaning supplies and beauty  prodcuts. I don't buy a dozen chemical cleaners for every different suface. I've found a natural soap, vinegar and baking soda do almost all the surfaces in my house and they are super cheap. I buy all my paper products with recycled content, and if you do a little looking you can find them for the same price as virgin content items.

Just because the marketing machine of America advertises that their products are green it doesn't mean you have to buy things to be green. To me the core principals are use what you have and buy less. The first word in the green mantra is REDUCE, then REUSE, then RECYCLE. You will spend a lot less money if you follow the first 2 and will have less need for the last.

Answer 3

going green and global warming are catch phrases that do seem to be catching on recently.

but what do they really mean?

Why can't we use real language when talking about the environment?

Why can't we talk about cleaning us the air, so we can actually smell the flowers and trees, instead of exhaust fumes for big noisy car and truck.

And why are they even selling carbon credits to people who find it cheaper, than actually retrofitting their factories to reduce pollution, all that does is encourage them to keep spewing their filth into our air.

and if they are going to pay someone for their lack of compliance to EPA mandates, they should be paying those of us who have to breath the air, instead of Al Gore and his cronies.

Answer 4

Well said!

I'm from the UK (the mother of industrialisation), and my contribution to the earth is to have no children!!! so my carbon-footprint will end when I die. Meanwhile I will enjoy my life as much as I can afford. As China is busy opening coal-fired power stations at the rate of one every two weeks, what difference can I make? USA won't sign any treaties on reducing emissions, why should I reduce mine. Incidentally for all you stateside petrol (gas) is over 10 dollars a gallon over here, so pretty soon I will have to walk everywhere!

Answer 5

Yes, we are to late of "going green". We are all going to die anyway now we cant change it. We are all going to die in a fire..

Answer 6

Whatever someone else's motive is, is inconsequential. You do it for the Earth. If you want to maintain your lifestyle, you need to take care of your environment. It can be as simple as using better light bulbs which ends up saving you time and money because they last longer, and sorting trash for things that don't have to be in a nasty heap until the end of time. Also unplugging your appliances...again saving you money!  

Answer 7

Go rant somewhere else, thank you.

Answer 8

I believe that  going green is simply the right thing to do.  You wouldn't go to a relatives house for a month, trash the h**l out  of it, leave and then expect it to right its self?? Would you?? I mean really, we all have to live here so let's just be a little kinder and considerate of one another and do what we should to hold on to our home.

Answer 9

We,you,I all of us live in this planet,we bear the responsibility to save this planet because the earth has provided much to our needs and contributed much in our lives.

Unless to say that you dont live in this planet because you neglected the people who told you to go green.It's fully our responsibility to save the planet because we're earthlings,we're the ones who's using the natural resources in the earth,not aliens from space or monsters from nowhere.

The earth WAS actually a clean,green,blue and beautiful planet.Since the industrial revolution started with these machines,transports and more producing large amount of smoke,it has now look so greyish.

The earth is the ONLY planet that withstands survival,if we,earthlings,dont take the responsibility to love this planet,who will?It's your responsibility too!

Answer 10

NO! GO GREEN.......spread the word, we need to act fast!!!

Answer 11

if pigs can fly

Answer 12

No, it's not a fraud. Why? Because if something is fraudulent, you aren't aware that it is. The global warming claptrap is the most transparent con in recent times.