The Canadian parliament (for the more liberal part) was appalled at the idea of selling corporations permits to produce more greenhouse gases and using the money to plant trees.  Now, while perusing the Internet, I found a site that’s selling them to individual consumers, making everyone feel good inside for driving their old crappy cars and heating their houses to a balmy 22 degrees.

“The Carbon Shop”

While I think that a company lining their pockets with money may seem a noble cause when a banner of environmentalism is flown, it strikes familiar with Europeans protesting the seal hunt and greenpeace protesting pollution with aging diesel ships that leak petrol into the oceans they’re fighting to protect.

WE fight television with commercials, obesity with food (dietary supplements) and pollution with gasoline.  If that’s not enough, I was in Shipshewana, the largest Amish settlement in North America and their flea market included a Mary Kay booth.  So, even the Amish are not immune to hypocrisy and the wide swath cut by the scythe of American capitalism.

We’re all doomed for failure because there is no way to rebel against the society we’ve built for ourselves without sacrificing personal comfort, which is always the thing we fight to hang on to the most and what got us here in the first place.  “Fight fire with fire” is an old expression, but a stupid one, because everyone knows you fight fire with water and that frogs butts are water-tight.

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