I’m a little skeptical of the green movement. It’s not that I don’t want to go green. It’s not that I don’t want alternative energy… What I’m skeptical of is the attempt to market anything and everything as “green” – in something you’d expect straight out of The Onion, there are now green credit cards which give you a magical superpower: they let you help the earth by shopping. Can’t we call BS when we see it? Think about it for a second. First of all, consumption of any besides natural food cycle consumption is environmentally disruptive. Anytime you purchase and consume a product, you are hurting the environment – and this fact doesn’t change when you use the magical green credit cards either.
The fact of the matter is that you will be much more helpful to the environment by cutting back on your shopping than by getting a green card. This is the height of marketing fraud and deception in my mind. And it’s what I hate about the green movement.
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You have overlooked one of the most importance areas of the green movement; namely the reduction of energy consumption which requires significant improvements in energy efficiency. Since society often overlooks matters of this importance, my patented (very green) energy credit card encourages utility customers to reduce their load while providing a viable business model for utilities to install larger solar PV system to improve the local grid.