{"id":66,"date":"2008-04-22T08:43:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/04\/22\/on-being-green-hulk-style\/"},"modified":"2008-04-26T19:56:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T00:56:18","slug":"on-being-green-hulk-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/04\/22\/on-being-green-hulk-style\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being Green (Hulk Style)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/o:p><\/font> … no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.- Abraham Lincoln<\/font> <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

On this Earth Day I\u2019d like to ask a question. <\/span>How green<\/font> are you? <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/font>Me? I\u2019m green <\/font>with anger and resentment that i keep being asked how green i am. <\/o:p><\/font> <\/font><\/o:p>To put it mildly, I’m not, and i don’t give a damn. <\/span>I’m not saying don’t save the planet, nor am i against using different types of plastics, ones that disintegrates in 4 month<\/a>s not 40,000 years.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font> <\/span><\/o:p><\/font> <\/font><\/o:p>I will recycle plastics, water, paper. <\/span>I will coddle a baby panda and wish there were more bald eagles. But i seriously don’t give a damn about being “green<\/font>“. <\/span>It’s now become a new marketing buzz like transfat and low carb and earth day. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

When was the last time you celebrated earth day! <\/span>Yes, i’m pointing at you, who just got your cloth bag from whole foods and now want me to be a flip flop hippy freak. <\/font>Put your cloth bag down and save the planet by inventing a better engine to stop clogging my lungs with smog from the bus i’m behind. <\/span>Design something better than a BIGGER airplane that carries WAY too much people. How about a company that will stop shipping me large boxes for small stuff<\/a>, or p<\/span>ut strobe lights on Mountain is South America<\/st1:place> so that pilots stop flying into them! <\/span>I will not bike to work, it makes me sweaty for meetings, and i smell like car fumes; remove the radiation from my hair and get the Teflon out of my blood<\/a>! <\/font><\/p>\n

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Admittedly, i am ranting at the green<\/font>, suddenly gas friendly, better air quality freaks out there now that someone has realized how to make money from it.<\/a> <\/font> <\/span>We should have been saving the plant years ago, not just because gas is now $3.50 a gallon. <\/span><\/o:p><\/font> <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

While watching TV, I saw a commercial with the current speaker of the house at the time of this writing, Nancy Pelosi (D) and a past speaker of the house, Newt Gringrich (R). They implored me to contact my leaders to help combat climate change and work on developing cleaner forms of energy. <\/o:p><\/font> <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

WTF?!<\/font> <\/span><\/o:p><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/o:p>Seriously? did my leaders make a commercial telling me to contact my leaders to make the world better and safer?!<\/o:p><\/font> <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Stop asking me if i’m green <\/font>and just BE green!\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n

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[Update]\u00a0 Glad I’m not the only one who see’s this ploy.<\/a><\/p>\n

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… no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.- Abraham Lincoln On this Earth Day I\u2019d like to ask a question. How green are you? Me? I\u2019m green with anger and resentment that i keep being asked how green i am. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[212,213,186],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blubs-of-verbs","tag-earthday","tag-green","tag-leaders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}