Daily Gut: Publicly Shaming Your Carbon Footprint
by Greg GutfeldSo yesterday, the British magazine The New Scientist published an article titled, “How Reputation Could Save the Earth.” In it, the writers argue that information about your carbon footprint should be made public – because knowledge of your misdeeds might change your ways. They ask, “Would you want your neighbors, friends, or colleagues to think of you as a free rider, harming the environment while benefiting from the restraint of others?”
This is an excellent question, for it exposes the real motivation behind most, if not all, climate change apostles: to allow these gasbags the superior pleasure of shaming you. It’s all about denigrating your reputation in order to elevate theirs – a self-satisfied reward for their sheep-like devotion to climate change hysteria. They’re such needy little twerps – the kind who take part in charity fun runs just so they can wear the t-shirt the next day at work.
Now, mind you, I’m all for shame. I think it’s a forgotten art -something that might be useful in curtailing some of the more disgraceful elements of American culture. I speak mainly of any show on VH1 that involves an elimination round, and of course, John Mayer.
But this enviro-shaming isn’t even close to that. It’s not like they’re actually condemning you for authentic, immoral behavior. Nope – rather than shaming an Islamic radical for killing innocent people, they’d rather go after those of us who didn’t bring a reusable hemp shopping bag when visiting the local Whole Foods.
And that’s a real shame. These simps are manufacturing phony righteousness when, these days, real righteousness is so desperately needed. And for that, I’d happily recycle my foot in their ass.
And if you disagree with me, then you’re probably a racist.
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Greg Gutfeld, you're a disgrace. I'm only kidding, this was great.
I love it. When they demanded that McDonalds put up the calorie count on the menu boards in NYC, people started eating more.
Frankly if my carbon footprint was made public, I'd see it as a challenge to get it as high as possible.
This article make me want to get in my late model Mustang GT and drive EVEN FASTER!
Shame me? LOL!
Let them publish my carbon footprint. They'll be bored!
Or disgusted.
I really don't give a damn!
They justify abortion by discovering a "right to privacy" in the Constitution, but they're more than willing to invade my privacy by exposing my carbon usage. Assuming the "they" in this country are going to run with this idea concocted by the British magazine The New Scientist, of course. Well, I say, "Bring it on, Limey lackeys!"
No he is a disgrace!!! What's wrong with that!?
They should include the fact if you have solar panels on your home. If you do you should get 10 demerits.
Solar panels are very toxic to manufacture.
http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/stabenow-and-camp-a...
Can we change "radical muslim" to what they really are??? "Empowered muslim".
Greg's post reminds me of that great Circle Jerks song: California Uber Alles. It's just so creepy that the world is heading in that hempy-smiley-armband direction.
This would backfire badly in America. Trying to shame the average American for something that is not against the law will only drive people to see who can have the biggest footprint. I like that idea!
me too!
that's the evil of the taxes these psychos really want, and why they'll be crying even more when Cap&Tax DIES!
The new scientist mag is a global warming (or is climate change today) loon's favorite web site.
Amen brother, other than you mispelled simps by one ltr on purpose you are exactly right.
They have found a purpose in an otherwise drab existence by denigrating anyone that doesn't threaten to blow them up. Much like their brave counterparts in the Movie business.
To counteract these GREEN morons, I'm starting a large tire fire, that will burn for weeks!
I'd be happy to have my green footprint published next to an accurate listing of Algore or Leo's footprint. I've got a sneaking feeling I use less energy than these eco-giants.
I'm damn proud of the immense hugeness of my carbon footprint. It's what separates me from jungle dwelling natives and self-righteous liberals. In fact I'm turning on the AC, opening the windows, letting my car idle in the driveway while I watch bill o'reilly on my big ass electricity drinking flat screen TV.
I like to do as much laundry and loads of dishes as I can in one day.
Long showers are bonus points.
In order to publish someone's inane "carbon footprint" (I'll sidestep the stupidity of the concept), they'd have to collect data on everyone. Hmm…
I heard those reusable bags were made in sweat shops. I could never support that.
Shame would only work if that person with the large carbon footprint would actually be shamed. By some of the responses here, a large carbon footprint would be a badge of honor, not of shame.
Besides, you know what they say about a man with a large carbon footprint.
Burning tires cause air pollution. Might I suggest just using the plastic bags at the grocery stores?
Back in college my carbon footprint information was such that we would need 7 earths if everyone on the earth lived like me. And back then I didn't eat as much meat and didn't drink coffee. Honestly, I might feel bad about this if I didn't believe man-produced global warming…excuse me…climate change was a myth. Since when did believing in bogus science become an admirable political affiliation?
Mercury lightbulbs, hybrid batteries, exhaling: which one is worse to Al?
My carbon footprint? I'm soaking in it.
“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)
I predicted tea parties would return. Now I'm predicting dueling will return.
If they want to publish my carbon footprint then I better start putting more baby seals on the grill to make it more interesting.
Yep… Those mercury filled CF lightbulbs are bad as well.
Also, we will be importing expensive foreign lithium (from South America) for hybrid vehicles rather than expensive foreign oil. Since The US is not a big producer of lithium, like Bolivia or Chile.
i google and use white screens on my computer!!
take that, environment!
What's the carbon footprint of a 71-car motorcade, Mr. Obama?
How long until they start tracking carbon buttprints?
"Although laws of this kind raise possible privacy issues, the potential gains could be great. In a world where each of us was accountable to everybody else for the environmental damage we cause, there would be strong incentives to reduce the energy we use, the carbon dioxide we emit and the pollution we create. In such a world, we might be able to avert a global tragedy of the commons."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427347.10...
I'm game. So, does that mean that we can show up at these two little Nanny State Brit Harvard educated twits that penned the article and start going threw their garbage, utility bills, fridge, and toilet flushing habits?
Hey, man up, you twits, how about letting my newly formed Florida Mr Piggy Poke Southern Open Pit Barbecue Environmental Reputation Committee in the door. Dare ya.
Science as we know it has been hijacked by lefty morons like these two. Imagine Newton, Copernicus, Lister, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Jonas Salk penning swill like that.
Our boy King, Obama, recently had a 71 car motorcade. I wonder if the left wing "enviro-shaming" crowd, led by Algore, will target President Ass-Clown for this egotistical damage to the environment. Somehow, I just don't see that happening.
I want a huge carbon footprint! Carbon dioxide is great for the plant life which means cows have better food which means better meat to eat. I just wish global warming were true; a warmer earth would be better for people all around the world–polar bears would adapt.
speaking of Algore – any news on when the pool of AP reporters will finish fact-checking his new book?
I will reveal my carbon footprint once St. Al reveals his. My feeling is that I could walk a good long time inside the footprint of good old Albert Gore.
You've got it wrong. It would be wonderful if this data was published. Love to see what the carbon footprint of the New York Times is or that of Friedman or Krugman. Also, would love to see the carbon footprint of the IPCC scientists — would bet that it would show the same hypocrisy as that of Gore, Friedman or Krugman.
JD
Mark my words well.
A day will come when these enviro-idiots will make calculating your carbon footprint mandatory.
As mandatory as income taxes. Probably even tied to how much taxes you will have to pay.
The New Scientist published an article titled, “How Reputation Could Save the Earth.” In it, the writers argue that information about your carbon footprint should be made public – because knowledge of your misdeeds might change your ways.
"The New Scientist" is a perfect name for an anti-science leftwing rag. The "new science" is based on feelings. Ironically every democrat crackpot idea is rooted in feelings, science and economic realities be damned. Knowledge of our "misdeeds"?? Like wanting to keep ourselves warm and using heat to cook our food? These people are mentally ill and a menace to society.
I heart mustangs.
I'm hoping in 20 years people will look back on this time period and laugh. This will look like an evil cross between the 70s and prohibition. Either that or in 20 years people will be selling lumps of black market coal out of the back of pickup trucks.
Im in love
obama in 71 vehicle motorcade
Plus all his traveling by aircraft all the time
Don't talk to me about my tiny tiny carbon footprint being a problem
I definitely wouldn't give a hoot if they published my carbon footprint. There's no way I could keep up with all the hypocrites in government, Jetsetting Al Gore alone has me covered for a lifetime.
Can't we just pretend our fantasy environmentalism will save the planet? I mean, someone has to take credit if the world does not spontaneously combust by 2050.. Stop poking these holes in our dream world! This is why the right is considered hate filled.. you won't play pretend with the other children!
I really am curious like many of you about what the eco-touting a-listers carbon footprints are. But they must make sure that when calculating it they don't give them credit for their awesomeness (joking here of course). Adding to their footprint because of the enormous amount of energy their egos require would be allowable though.
I will say though that I am a supporter of conserving materials and limiting energy use because I don't believe in being wasteful and I like to save money. I also love trees and wouldn't want to cut down any 200 year old ones to floor my home, but have no problem using products made from trees that are grown especially to cut down.
I don't expect everyone to do the same things I do though and I don't think worse of anyone for not doing some of the things I do to create less waste. Although if I see you burning classic books or cutting down a 2000 year old sequoia I might come after you
Not that it matters terribly, but wasn't that The Dead Kennedys?
Yeah, I was forced to take a carbon footprint test in a political science course. My professor then had the gall to require us to talk about how that makes us feel, and what we could do to alleviate it. I replied that environmentalism was a religion. He was the preacher of that religion. And that, just because I could, I wasn't going to stop until I doubled my carbon footprint.
Luckily, I aced every test, and am large and scary, so I still got an A.
Yes, DK's. And punk matters.
What model year is your Mustang GT?
Frankly if my carbon footprint was made public, I'd see it as a challenge to get it as high as possible.
I totally agree.
Here in Republican Orange County, I saw a Hummer a few years back that had the license plate "8 MPG". I loved it.
I also relish speeding past Prius drivers in my German sports car (18 MPG).
When people come to our place and ask where to put the recyclables, my wife loves to tell them "we don't recycle. We hate polar bears!"
I like your wife already. I'm also stealing her line…
I still drive an excursion cuz its the biggest most obnoxious thing going to the greenie weenies
its even bigger than a hummer – luv this vehicle, gets 5-8 mpg and carries 11 people – great American metal
i luv the stretch between elpaso and ozona – really stretch the legs on my rs8
i bought more cows for the methane output
its fun to go out of the way to get the most carbon intensive item – its always the most fun, tasty, fastest, biggest screen item available
It would also kind of destroy any last semblance of privacy in our lives.
http://www.a-human-right.com/20years2.jpg
So true, so true…this is the Age of Hypocrisy.
I bet my carbon footprint is bigger that your carbon footprint.
No, I won't pretend that I have tea in the cups, and I won't take a nap either!
I'm all for 'shaming' the likes of Sheryl Crow, Al Gore and every other lunatic-lefty eco-warrior who is a massive hypocrite.
Your wife sounds cool!
Reminds me of a High School History teacher I had. He was a card carrying communist (early 80's) and I was an avowed Regean Republican. I used to love intellectually sparring with him. His lefty anti-capitalism crap was hilarious! I am not large and scary, but I aced all the tests, so I got an A.
Shoe size will undoubtedly factor into such a "footprint" scheme. Those of us with larger feet will certainly be held accountable for the excess grass we trample that becomes useless for sinking carbon and for the extra energy used to make our footwear.
We can look to the former East German Stasi and their "Neighborhood Watch" methodology for how to implement such a "shaming" program. They were the masters at modifying behavior through the silent and ever deadly threat of being found out as an unbeliever.
This is also a new career for the dumpster-diving "journalists" who saturated Alaska looking for everything we ever wanted to know about Sarah Palin. They could work on commission for every recyclable they found in offenders' garbage that should have been in the recycle bin. After their service to the nation last year, they might as well continue doing things that really matter.
I have to stop now. Time for a nice breakfast of Spotted Owl omlette and Snail Darter stew.
"The US is not a big producer of lithium"
We don't seem to be prescribing enough of it, either. Unquestioning belief in "Big Green" has to be a mental illness.
I've got a right to my footprint and my shadow and I'll fight for it. The enviro-weenies can KMA!
Nah, it's just easier than thinking.
If I lose, can I pay off the bet in polar bear pelts?
Of course, with an SUV, two cars, two motorcycles (one is a two-stroke!), lawn tractor, snow thrower, two chainsaws, three line trimmers (all three are two strokes), several kerosene heaters, propane stove and clothes dryer, AND a 40+ year old oil burning water heater (heat and hot water, so it runs year round) I'd probably be collecting on the bet. I'll take polar bear pelts, freshly clubbed seals, or recently harpooned whales…
Seriously, envirowacko's are pushing a new religion, you have the 'sins' and the 'indulgences'
of course the sins are made up, and the indulgences for sale only seem to line the pocket of Algore… (his favorite Green product).
They won't be happy until they can brand us with a green 'A' on our foreheads for daring to live outside the made up enviroreligions' carbon credit allowance.
They ask, “Would you want your neighbors, friends, or colleagues to think of you as a free rider, harming the environment while benefiting from the restraint of others?”
Considering where I live in the West this would be a badge of honor.
In honor of your post I'm going to go out side and turn on my grill and carbonize away!
You don't actually think the ruling elites have any intention of allowing that, do you?
No, just us, the unwashed masses.
Now you're catching on.
If you use reusable bags, what's going to happen to all those plastic bags?
They'll be orphaned! I just can't have that on my conscience.
Man I'm glad I stuck to applied science in college.
If you're cramming for calculus, physics and digital electronics and microprocessors, there ain't time for politics.
It's hard enough to squeeze in time for being a complete and total drunk chasing co-eds.
They go great with arugula!
Uh oh. They start doing that I'm in deep kimshi.
Modern liberalism 101. None of this applies to them.
You don't understand modern liberals, this doesn't apply to them, only un unwashed masses.
Shhhhhh…..
That's the ticket.
Exactly. Marx wanted to destroy religion, because he thought it was a huge waste of human potential. He thought people could be more productive doing things like, making him leader of the world. So his idea was to replace human nature's longing for a higher purpose with servitude to the state.
Lenin, Stalin, Mao and the like did a pretty good job of achieving it. And now modern liberalism is using the same play book. And this is their version of it.
But none of this addresses the basic human need to believe in something bigger.
Um, recycling doesn't have that much to do with climate change. It's kind of about re-using the things that you've only used once before – quite practical really. Maybe there's even a moral imperative to keep using something rather than bury it in a landfill next to millions of identical copies. Even the most out-there right winger can understand that plastic comes from a finite resource and so will eventually run out. That's a fact, regardless of your feelings on liberal conspiracies. Maybe tell your wife that?
It looks like I'm going to be heading myself for Alaska!!! Yeee-haww!!! I'm thinking…whales?
You beat me hands down….lol.
I think they should all be required to make public their toilet paper footprint.
You're my knida girl!
Um, thank you Captain Obvious for letting us know that recycling doesn't have much to do with "climate change". It's a joke pointing out the absurdity of associating negligible human actions with dramatic natural events.
As for recycling itself, thank you for completely missing the point of Greg's post. In fact, thank you for making Greg's point by attempting to shame me with your finger-wagging use of "moral imperative".
Maybe you think that wasting a bunch of (petroleum-based!) fuel to drive recycling driving trucks around makes you superior. I think it makes you gullible and ignorant. Maybe one day you will calculate the cost (in oil) to drive a large truck to your house to pick up your five empty Evian bottles.
The only thing I will be telling my wife is that she was lucky she didn't marry a mindless sheep who likes to bleat whatever the Green mafia tells him.
post of the internet, right there Ken
It's an black exterior/red guts 06 auto (no mo shifting for me!). I was the guy at the Ford house that did the factory ordering, I "built" all the cars and trucks for a mid sized Ford store in El Paso for long time (in car guy years, it's like dog years, if you have a fickle owner!) I really enjoyed sitting down and optioning them out. It's governed by a parts available quota from Ford and other factors so it's not as easy as it seems, but it's not brain surgery. You have to really know and understand inventory and like the marketing aspect of it, it waqs really fun. Good money, not great, I had actually made more on the floor selling but better security.
Nice. There's not a damn thing out there, so YAHOO!
I was running about 95 in Montana one time, radio off, just cruising fast in a rented Cadillac, and I looked up and saw a patrol car in my mirrors. I thought "Oh crap, ticket time" (the sped limit had been reintroduced at I think 85) and NOPE, he just passes right by me at about 100 or 105mph. Like "no biggy". I like Montana, that's my kind of state. (in the summer)
I 'm optimistic that you're right, we will look back at the Obama Regime and I personally will laugh like "a little girl"! Seriously we have the Camaro back, and the Challenger from Mopar so muscle cars will always have a place in our society as long as we maintain ALL our freedoms. The further errosion of one or a few will lead to an out right usurptation, like our Commie-in-Chief is attempting, in plain sight, right under our noses!
Thanks! ;>)
Hey, how about in addition to increasing your footprint, lets tick them off with a religious war. It is coming up on Christmas which means we all can get involved in two things – ticking off the people who don't like bible types, and putting up huge displays of Christmas lights and decorations which burn lots of carbon based fuels. See two sticks with one action. Now of course, no LEDs allowed, we need the big nasty ceramic bulb C-9 types. Lots of them.
I wonder what the eco-environwacko religious reformation will look like….
I have an alternative to this carbon footprint thing that I think may catch on.
When the Nature Police show up on my doorstep, I'll happy present my Carbon Middle-Finger.
Not that it matters terribly, but Greg knows his music and always makes the inside joke of attributing songs to the wrong bands. So, my comment was an homage to St. Gutfeld, not a legitimate screw up.
'I really don't give a damn!'
And that's why this type of thing won't work. To have shame about something, you have to care about it and you cannot be shamed by something you don't even believe in. By now, enough people don't believe or care in their BS science so they will thumb their noses at it and even go out of their way to increase their carbon footprint for bragging rights.
And in a view to that, I'll make sure I leave my air conditioner on for most of my waking hours this week. Well since Southern Australian is going through a record heat wave (which surprising hasn't been used as 'proof' of global warming) and I'll need it to make life bearable. But I won't feel guilty about it!
Sounds exactly like my own assignment. For me, it was an easy A, because all you had to do was write what they wanted to hear on every topic. I never caved on the big stuff like Marx and Engels or Bush-bashing-just-for-the-hell-of-it, but a few assignments had me sounding a little sycophantic for the easy A, I'm afraid. But hey, I learned from one of my fellow students that all the U.S. could take credit for in the world was Britney Spears and the Big Mac.
Some things from college never leave you…
Sounds like an interesting job. I know car sales are a little flat, and Ford seems to be doing ok, are you still employed in this capacity?
I wish, kinda. When I returned to El Paso and started there I was warned that this millionaire dealer was a little flighty, kind of a jerk. I avoided him for about three years and then he cleaned house removing everybody in charge. So I returned to school and haven't looked back. I'd take the same job with any Ford store. That and swapping inventory, making dealer trades is a blast. I was known for trading with anybody for anything as long as the trade was mutually beneficial. It was fun. I start my Masters in poly sci soon (my goal is to lead an utter destruction of the modern Democrat party), I may have to wait for the fall 2010 term depending on where I'm accepted.
"my goal is to lead an utter destruction of the modern Democrat party"
A noble Goal and I would gladly join you sir!
Unless by some cruel twist of fate, the Democrats become Conservatives and the Republicans become Statists. <ponders this for a minute>
Naaaaaaahhhh!
It begins with ruthless, hard nosed opposition research. If a "promosing young progressive" sticks his head up above the crowd oyu go to work. You interview ex- girl or boy friends, you search public records, go back to their old schools, dig through tax records, all the things the research arm of the Democrat party – the media does only we do it more extensively and more viciously to the point liberal just don't want ot be involveed in politics, then we shift their party back to the right, notch by notch. 70's…GONE…. further back, 60's NO WAY…further back…50's (without the Democrat racism) maybe…back to when the U.S. Democrat party wasn't trying to destroy the country they say they "love". That's when it's OVER, not before.
Sounds eerily like exactly what they are trying to do to us. Fight fire with fire, I guess.
Actually, I am confident that Conservative Idealism is superior and will win any intellectual debate. The huge problem is: Most of the voting public is not intellectual.
The word "Lemmings" comes strongly to mind here.
I had a few friends of mine work at the Ford plant in Edison, NJ, which made the Ford Ranger. They closed the plant several years ago, and tore the factory down, about a year-and-half ago, what a shame. One of my friends had enough time in at Ford to transfer to the Virginia Beach/Norfolk VA area, and that plant closed too. C'est la Vie!!!
Good luck with your masters, I don't think I have the schoolastic discipline to get a college degree, haven't finished getting an associates, yet.
formal education DOESN'T equal intelligence in any way, shape, or form (If you doubt that look at some of the babboons with degrees, or talk to my dimwitted sister-in-law {a Master's I guess} !) Common sense and native intelligence are much bigger indicator of success in life. You have that in spades (is that racist?) so keep on keeping on.
Rangerws were still being made in Minneapolis/St Paul but I think they we closing that plant too. There is supposed to a repacement for the Ranger (Ford 100?) but I'm a bit out of touch.
God Bless you buddies on the line, without them we retail guys would be screwed. They make the product that we sell, and they do it well, and we appreciate them.
Absolutely. The Democrat "brand" has to be repositioned in the minds of the er, shall I say, politically unengaged (sheeple)? They view Dems as "populist" givers and Repub as "rich" takers. That's crap. The Dems use fed,state and local tresuries as piggy banks to buy voters. That has to stop.
It will take a freshing of the image and a concerted effort to tear down the Democrat image with the truth. Ruthless and unforgiving truth? Damn right, but the truth none the less. Hollywood and media must be appropriated and turned on show and one movie and one "celebrity" at a time. It's gotta be ok to be a conservative in places other thatn the great states of Alaska and Texas and Nebraska and the rest of "fly-over-country". We must take the coasts.
Well, if nothing else I admire your optimism and enthusiasm. We need more of you.
thanks. detroying the Dems seems Quixotic but we gotta start somewhere.
I'm thinking one congress critter at a time.
I leave my lights on over night. I don't care that it costs me more on my electric bill. It just makes me feel good inside. I also like keeping my heat up and even open my windows sometimes with the heat on because I just don't give a damn.
Didn't you hear? The president is exempt.
Thank you for the kind words, sorry it took me so long to respond to them.
While pondering as is my wont, I got to thinking, maybe I can claim to have a new and as yet declared and undiagnosed mental health malady, Educational Attention Deficit Disorder (EADD), perhaps Adult Education Attention Deficit Disorder (AEADD). With this new diagnosis, one can claim victim status, and as a result can receive special dispensation. For example no testing or studying, one will receive credit for just showing up. Since we seem to living in a new era where results don't matter, only intentions, we can all FEEL better about ourselves without those nasty expectations. LOL!!!
Oh and I have both a dimwitted brother-in-law, & sister, bless them, but both have masters degrees, and are thoroughly brainwashed libs as a result. So we share that pain, my friend.
Lastly I don't call a spade a spade, I call it a shovel. I know that MAY be considered a racist statement, but what the hay (hey?!).
Later,
Cheers mate
My pleasure. I completed about 2/3 of my schooling while selling cars and that was rough because selling takes priority. THen I moved to the "People's Republic of Austin" a great fun place, the libs are halarious, but the *school thing* was hanging out there. I'm now a pesky middle age student, one that drives the kids crazy or the secretly agree with me. A lawyer I have for a criminal investigation class went off on a tangent bashing Bush for going into Iraq, I raised my hand stood up and read a quote talking about "we should remove Saddam, etc." and asked the class who made the statement. All of them "George Bush". I said "Wrong, Bill Clinton" and sat down. His rant ended.
Good on yer James, those fact thingys always trip up a liberal, whether they are a lawyer or not. I'll be interested to hear about those young students that secretly agree with you, come up to you after or before class to let you know that the do agree with you.
John Effin Carry also thought Saddam needed to be removed!!
Good luck in your continuing studies at "People's Republic of Austin"
Cheers!!
could'nt agree more.
Environmentalists phony self righteousness makes me want to say "both" when asked if I want paper or plastic at the checkout………but you can take your time, I left my car idling in the parking lot.
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