I've found a wonderful New york Times article that I will definitely use in my paper. It pretty much confirms my beliefs of how and why people are being "Green" these days. To them, its not about genuinely trying to save the planet; instead it's just another trend that people to choose to follow in order to fit in with others:
HERE’S one popular vision for saving the planet: Roll out from under the sumptuous hemp-fiber sheets on your bed in the morning and pull on a pair of $245 organic cotton Levi’s and an Armani biodegradable knit shirt.
Stroll from the bedroom in your eco-McMansion, with its photovoltaic solar panels, into the kitchen remodeled with reclaimed lumber. Enter the three-car garage lighted by energy-sipping fluorescent bulbs and slip behind the wheel of your $104,000 Lexus hybrid.
Clearly, even when it comes to being green and the whole notion of conserving, people are just trying to buy their way out of it! THe term going green should be changed to green consumerism. With articles that have titles like "55 great ways to look eco-sexy,’ being green is like the owning crocs so that you look cool at school.
As i've posted in my previous blog, it takes a lot of work to actually dedicate yourself to becoming green. Everyone's just jumping on the bandwagon, and doing it on a very superficial level. Of course, there are those that conduct scholarly work on it.
"We turn toward the consumption part because that’s where the money is,” Mr. Hawken said. “We tend not to look at the ‘less’ part. So you get these anomalies like 10,000-foot ‘green’ homes being built by a hedge fund manager in Aspen. Or ‘green’ fashion shows. Fashion is the deliberate inculcation of obsolescence.”
He added: “The fruit at Whole Foods in winter, flown in from Chile on a 747 — it’s a complete joke. The idea that we should have raspberries in January, it doesn’t matter if they’re organic. It’s diabolically stupid.”
I think that sums up how people act and feel about the environmental movement pretty well.
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