the next step

[the_siobhan]

Every resource I've ever seen about climate change gives the same basic instructions. "Turn down the AC. Get a more fuel efficient car. Buy locally."

We don't have air con. We bus and bike everywhere. We eat vegetarian most of the time, and every lightbulb in the house is compact fluorescent. We patch, repair, reuse and freecycle.

Now what? Where is the environmentalism 201?

*sigh*

I guess I could always write more letters.

What I'm listening to right this second: Knucklehead

Comments

[sweetfuckall.livejournal.com]

We don't have air con

I purchased my first A/C last year, against my better Environmentalist judgement. We try to use it as sparingly as possible, but when the humidity is as such that we can't even run the vaccuum across the carpet, it's time to plug 'er in.

I think it's that whole "the rich get richer while the poor get poorer" scenario coming into play. Those of us who do our part and do what we can to reduce the effects of climate change grow more heat-oppressed as the years go by in some last-ditch effort to make up for what Joe SUV is doing.

I knew the world was in beeg, beeg trouble when air-cooled patios became all the rage at downtown eateries. Once the sun goes down, they turn the A/C off and fire up the heaters, lest pubgoers suffer a chill. We are heating and cooling the outdoors now, folks. Why do so few of us see this as fundamentally wrong?