deadreckon:

I’ve been an anti-environmentalist for most of my life.

This is because I respond very poorly to guilt, and the green movement tends to employ guilt as its primary tactic.

If someone had said to me, “Hey, let’s reuse and recycle because it sucks less, and because it means less clutter in your damn house, and because buying things doesn’t make you happy anyway, and let’s avoid toxins because they make us sick, and let’s be kind to animals because they have big limpid eyes and pure little souls, and let’s not cut down as many trees because they help us breathe,” I probably would have hopped on the sustainability train at a much earlier age.

Instead we’ve got a lot of emotional appeals and Al Gore with his private jet of hypocrisy and carbon credits and that smarmy-ass dreadlocked clerk at Whole Foods and the personification of Mother Earth as some abused housewife that humanity at large is constantly punching in the teeth.

That shit doesn’t work. What works is seeing this:

on the beach you’re trying to enjoy after a Balinese rainstorm churns it up. 

(Here’s how the Balinese recycle: Trash washes up on beach. They take it to the top of the mountain. Trash washes downstream into ocean. Trash washes up on beach. They take it to the top of the mountain. Etc.)

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the ‘FORGAIA’ bit just gave me the most severe douche chills i’ve experienced so far this year. oof. WHO WOULD DO THAT?