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Go ahead. Leave the lights on ….

Today is Blog Action Day.

According to the official website, “On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment.”

Because, as everyone knows, you just don’t hear enough about the environment these days.

With appearances on the cover of all the major news magazines, numerous mentions in speeches at the Academy Awards and as the beneficiary of a streaming Internet rock concert, the environment has been overexposed more than Britney Spears’ kitty.

Having a day dedicated to blogging about global warming is like the Wall Street Journal having a special commemorative issue dedicated to Paris Hilton. There’s no real harm in it, but it seems like most of the writers would have something better to do.

Bloggers Unite - Blog Action Day

At this point in the whole global warming discussion, there are a few conclusions we should all be able to agree on:

  • The planet is warmer than it was 100 years ago and, at least for the near future, is likely to get warmer.
  • There are consequences to the planet getting warmer (just as there are consequences of getting out of bed in the morning), but the consequences aren’t all bad. And they are nowhere near as catastrophic as fear-mongering special interests or your roommate who forgot to take his Paxil would lead you to believe.
  • Any money spent trying to avert an over-hyped Armageddon is money that cannot be spent on real, current day, life-and-death issues which can be addressed with some reasonable expectation of success.
  • Everyone should be free to take whatever steps they feel personally relevant toward making the planet greener and everyone should be equally free not to compost their own garbage, not to wash their clothes in recycled cold water and not to abstain from using toilet paper if that’s the way they want to live.

    • I have one last request for the environmental extremists before Blog Action Day closes: take a look at where your fanatic dedication to your cause is taking you.

    Being dissatisfied with the intrusion of the the sanctimonious lecturing of the religious right and the corresponding infringement on your personal freedoms doesn’t mean you have to invent a substitute religion where “Nature” is the god but the pontification is every bit as tiresome and the pressure to conform is even more extreme.

    Try a new approach. Try letting people think and act for themselves. Things usually work out better that way.

    And, oh … happy Blog Action Day.

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    Posted in General on October 15th, 2007

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