Wednesday, November 07, 2007

New In The Phoenix: The Dirty Truth About Eco-Living

This week's issue of the Phoenix, out tomorrow, is a special "Green Issue." My contribution is a contratian essay arguing that eco-living -- changing one's personal habits to combat global warming -- is a corporate strategy to distract attention from what really needs to be done... and to make profits off of well-intentioned consumers' concerns about the earth.

It's online now:

Mirth Day
The idea of a consumer-led environmental movement has pollution-belching multi-nationals rolling in the aisles — and the joke is on you

11/7/2007 3:17:54 PM by David S. Bernstein | Comments [1] |
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:22:02 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

This reminds me of the time I saw a special on MSNBC or CNN which showed that most Americans believe plant-based fuels ethanol and biodiesel fuels (which are made from plant-based energy products derived from corn, palm oil, sugar and other plant crops) and these are a good thing and something to feel positive about as well as being a source useful P.R. for green initiatives.

However, the show proved that in order to manufacture each gallon of "green" ethanol gasoline it actually takes a quart of oil as well as a gallon of petroleum-derived gasoline!

Also, when all of these so-called "green intitatives" began back in the 1970's - who knew that eco-friendly, alternative energy for cars would result in higher food prices worldwide?

Chop Chop

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