Crumb Trail
     an impermanent travelogue
email: guesswho @ guesswhere.com

Wednesday, February 08, 2006
 

Interesting rant against environmentally conscious "green" houses.

These houses aren't just ridiculous; they're monuments to sanctimony. If architecture is frozen music, these places are congealed piety, demonstrating with embarrassing concreteness the glaring hypocrisy of upper-class environmentalism. The sad thing is that, by pouring so much money into ostentatious eco-design, the people who built homes like this have purchased status at the cost of doing some real environmental good.
Empty gestures are all there is to much of current environmentalism: pious feel-good actions and policies displace effective environmentalism but can be easily sold by enviro-hustlers, politicians and grifters of all sorts; please donate now.

With many other issues we have developed some immunity, some sales resistance, and are able to do wiser consuming. That hasn't happened yet with environmentalism, it's still a wild-west free-for-all, the eco-bubble. This too shall pass.

posted by back40 | 2/08/2006 07:50:00 PM

0 Comments:

Post a Comment


Recent
Resources
Open Access
People
News
Tools
Blogs
Archives

Technorati Profile