Dissapointing Carbon News
Unfortunately, my footprint seems to have gone down from 12.8 to 10.8. I’m not certain, but It must be due to the fact that I work from home more lately.
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| Your Footprint 32.097 |
Country Average 20.4 |
World Target 2 |
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An interesting note from the quiz - I was only one question into the quiz (the sq. footage of my home) before my footprint was too big for a single earth. The threshold that broke the one earth barrier was a home >2500 sq.ft. - very close to the US average home sq. footage according to 2007 standards. That’s right, the average American home is too big for (purported) environmental sustenance.
According the the greens, the moral approach to life is to renounce the material benefits of centuries of thought and productivity. They vary in their means to such end according to the negligible degree to which they enjoy life. Those who hate life essentially want the utter destruction of technology and industry at best, the extinction of man at worse. Those who cling to a remnant of joy in living want you to go through the motions of living without necessarily feeling alive. These are the ones who promote “green living” as a necessary sacrifice that can be ‘fun for the whole family’. Sacrifice, according to both camps is the underlying tenet. To them, individuals are merely spokes in the wheel - regardless of whether the wheel is a town, a country, or a globe.
However, a rational man’s purpose is his own happiness in accordance with his rational values.
Value is an inherently human concept both by the fact that it presupposes choice (volition), which only man has, and courtesy of the notion that it is only human life that can be the basis of such judgment. The earth has no value outside of its facilitation of mans needs. Man must use natural resources to survive. To insist that man live void of natural resources, or even to guilt man into sacrificing elements of his life where he finds value for the sake of non-living material objects, is to sacrifice the living to the non-living. To hire a governing body to force man to do such is pure evil.
Contrary to the guilt that these nihilistic man-haters intend to conjure, I’m proud of my “footprint”. A token of my productivity and a tribute to man’s mind - I intend to increase it to the extent of my existence.
I have no desire to live under their diet-life terms.
