Dept of Boastfulness
No, not for me.
The Liberal Party of Canada, the Federal version, offered my mother a front bench Cabinet position if she would run in Vancouver Quadra, our riding (assuming the Liberals were to to win the next election).
Maybe this should be in the Dept of Pride, I don't know. Anyway, she turned them down for a number of reasons.
Me? I got offered a gig driving for a Greenpeace fundraising team.
Update:
Alright, my mum says they didn't 'offer' a cabinet position but dangled one saying it was a possibility. I was stretching.
Not a stretch: I did an on the street audition for a reality TV show and I got a callback and I'm meeting the producer on Monday. Ju Rosenburg, lets hug it out bitch.
posted by robert @ 10:04 PM
6 Comments:
Your Greenpeace tour better be carbon neutral. David Suzuki is on a tour right now asking people what they would do if they were prime minister, (or something like that...that is for a different rant) and was SCRUTINIZED by the media for taking a BUS! HA! So his tour is now offsetting all of their emissions with investments in sustainable energy programs. I admire the steps he is taking to reduce his impact, but that is the essence of the thing I hate most about the environmentalism debate. People who say, "You're an environmentalist right...but you drive CAR! You hypocrite, how do you live with yourself." Its not one of two choices. Drive your car, just don't let it idle while you pop into Wal-Mart for another 12 pack of 1-use disposable toilet bowl cleaners. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some pharmaceuticals to market.
Shave the whales,
Dave
Indeed people's ridiculous argument crying "Hypocrit" has no real merit. It is entirely unrealistic to expect that. And further more, what is wrong with someone who does his best to be an environmentalist, but needs to drive his car? Why does it have to be all in texas hold'em?
I think the problem that the critics have trouble swallowing is that the environmentalists have not provided any real solutions to the problem. Don't jump on my back yet. They know what needs to be done, but the "real" way to do that has yet to be provided. That said, there is nothing wrong with advocating for change of behavior, and hopefully the alternative energy sources technology can be developed to replace our current dirty energy.
Carbon neutral is a facade, its a way to cover ones ass from that utterly ridiculous charge hypocrit.
I can recall the David Suziki Foundation proclaiming that buying carbon credits from third world countries to meet kyoto targets was a cop-out. well as I see it, carbon neutral travelling is small scale carbon credits, so if any criticism of being hypocritical that should be it.
as for travelling in a bus, that is nearly ten times more efficient than scooting around in a jet.
Dave is right, the fact of the matter is if you need to travel: drive, bus, fly, do it. If you can walk or take a bus instead do that. REDUCE. remember number one in the three R's.
David Suziki does great things about raising awareness, as does Al Gore. So leave them the fuck alone. But people, especially canadians, are player haters.
Also only idiots bitch about hypocritism all the time, same with people yelling 'false advertising' like a ten year old. They are the bread and butter of dumbass haters.
After all its not like the Fish's buddy Ted Haggert saying gays are all going to hell in between bj's and meth in his rented saturn with a midnight cowboy.
quinner change your lightbulbs, there is something you can do.
Somehow I have the feeling I was misinterpreted...as I was supporting Dave's view, but trying to offer an alternative perspective to the argument to elucidate where the cry "hypocrit" is coming from. I guess I'll just have to live with that fate...it seems to be as common as bread and butter in my life these days.
And a message for the environmentalists...don't be afraid of criticism for your ever so noble cause...it will only make your strategic solutions better.
Now I feel misinterpreted, and slightly violated, but I like that feeling....
I wasn't bitching you out kieran, in fact I agree with you, I was just getting things off my chest.
As for the lightbulbs comment, that was just a comment to suggest that, indeed there are plenty of solutions out there, no one size fits all, but we can find something that fits.
The pitfalls of the written word. I understand your analogy now Robert....and it is a fine one. How many Newfies does it take to screw one in?
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