I spent all day preparing and planting the garden, turning and spreading compost, and fretting over heirloom tomato plants. I came inside, sloughed the dirt off my hands into the keyboard, and watched this:
1) This is shit we ought to be taking seriously, and not just because of your heart pangs of liberal guilt. And folks, it’s easy. Drive less, walk more, it’s good for you. Make a compost pile, it’s fun for the kids. When you make your will, pass on burial and get cremated. Plant a garden. Use public transportation. Ride a bike. Turn off the AC and open your windows. I do all these things and wouldn’t even dare to call myself an environmentalist — I call it responsible. And because I’m one of those assholes with an SUV with a long commute that I can’t avoid, I consider it a moral imperative to do what is within my power.
2) Politicians need to leave “expert” opinion alone — especially that which turns one into a fucking zombie, although sometimes zombies are cool — and go with their passions. Nonetheless, don’t consider this an endorsement of Gore and/or Democrats. I’m just as disgusted with them — in part for ignoring environmental issues, among others — as anyone else.
For more on the movie and the science behind it, visit the website. Don’t bother making the pledge to see the movie in order to “make a difference” by sitting on your ass in the movie theater — ads ruin everything, I swear.
How did you celebrate Earth Day?
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Are you sure about that? I know it takes less land, but I was under the impression that cremation is pretty heavy on fuel consumption
Maybe what needs to happen is that people agree not to be embalmed, but just wrapped in a sack and composted.
I prefer feeding the dead to
If time is not an issue, you can lock a body in an airtight container and it will basically creamate itself. When a friend of mine died, he was not buried but instead placed in one of those mausoleums, and I was told you could put multiple people in the same compartment at different times because after a year or so all that was left of a person was ash that could be swept to the back of the compartment.
Just over a day late from Amanda’s…haven’t watched yet but will.
I like Gore and hated Bush…for the very first time…when he castrated Kyoto.
There are -particulary in the world we American have built some ‘built’-ins (SUVs and commutes and stuff… &been there &done that) – so don’t get guilty, embrace reformation…or something like that.
I have and “It’s OK, everything’s OK…”
Meantime, thnx for having good thoughts and passin’ ‘em around and stuff.
I’m with Amanda – the problem with burial isn’t dropping the meat into the ground, it’s the ridiculously elaborate coffins & concrete enclosures they get slotted into, that slow the inevitable recycling.
For myself, I’m to be buried vertically – no coffin – and a sapling to be planted overhead.