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Light green is buy a prius
Nah. Nothing green about a Pious other than the marketing.
I know it about more than home energy use TJ. Dark green is more than using a bike though. I am therefore I consume, IMO the minimum for considering youself Dark Green is consuming at a level where only one planet can durably provide for you needs. I'd have to stop eatin meat to do that but like seeing cuddly cows in my local fields.
One of the problem is that the left seems to think it has the green monopoly when it's the wealth of the right that's needed to really go green. I won't vote green because they are more concerned with full employment than sustainable development. Do the greens propose to ban private use of automobiles powered by fossil fuels? Of course they don't, there isn't a green gene in their ADN.
It's private initiatives by people with enough disposable income to make choices for environmental rather than economic reasons that are leading the green way forward and they generally don't have a socialist gene in their DNA.
I did one of those online co2 footprint thingys and I was just about on the one planet footprint.
[i]When did you last do something for the good of others without reward?[/i]
Last evening, voluntary helper with local homeless group
Every other w/e, voluntary work at local palliative care centre
[i]Do you really think I could not have made far more money in another profession[/i]
No, not really - I recall you saying you tried to start your own business and quit/failed, I see little evidence of any other marketable skills/qualifications and surely your 'dark green anarcho' credentials would preclude almost all major forms of commercial activity....
...are you creative, well with the truth perhaps but your writing here seems ill structured and stereotypical, the few photos you've posted trite and artless so possibly not...
what's left then........
.....stunt double for "Rik out of the Young Ones" perhaps 😈
Dark Green anarcho is the way forward if people could but see it. The government won't lead so people with the vision to prepare for a future with more expensive energy (and hence everything else) will be the success stories of the future. Don't expect green politics while Ecclestone, Sainsbury and the like are paying the piper.
What I'm saying is, some of us are on the right (I'd consider myself a liberal or libertarian actually) because we really truly honestly believe capitalism to be for the good of everyone in the long run.
Only a libertarian can come out with this boll*cks.
hilldodger - Premier MemberWhen did you last do something for the good of others without reward?
Last evening, voluntary helper with local homeless group
Every other w/e, voluntary work at local palliative care centre
Good on you.
Do you not think I could have been good at middlemanagement bollox?
Who would not be a libertarian?
I'm a libertarian, in the manner of Thoreau. Give me access to some decent woods (and, uhh, antibiotics, the internet & a well-stocked library...) & I'll be fine. Beyond basic needs, I don't care much for owning stuff (apart from old Bontrager frames). It's just clutter.
I'm an advocate of free trade, but I sure as hell don't regard the "market" as some kind of magic panacea for all ills. I have a profound distrust of economists and all their reductive schemes.