My children would know better than to do that to me because I would just egg them on.
Carbon dioxide? I would build a fire pit with an eternal flame.
Dolphins? I would serve tuna steaks every night.
Fuel economy? Hey Son, how do you like my ‘71 Cadillac?
The battery runs out on their EV 8 miles from home and, instead of making the boys walk home and learn a tough lesson about the price of being an Eco-warrior, Momma drives the gasoline engine car to pick them up? She’s nuts. But she passed it down to the kid.
Make him live without clean water, any store-bought food, any pharmaceuticals, or toiletries, no transportation of any kind sans feet, and no electronic gadgets of any kind. See how fast he comes crawling back begging to be readmitted to the 21st century.
To top it all off, he’s going to college three thousand miles from home and he bitches about an asparagus spear from Mexico? The pollution from ONE transcontinental flight will more that wipe out any of the “savings” he accumulated over many years.
These people are Marin County morons with no common sense at all...except for Mom wanting the baby out of the house. The kid needs a stint in the Marine Corps, but they wouldn’t take the pimply faced 100 pound weakling.
Excellent response to an excellent essay.
The writer, Ronnie Cohen, is clear and reasonable. Yet while I was enjoying the essay I kept wondering, where is the father? Where is he? Why is the kid such a punk to a his mother and disrespectful of the house?
Christians make the best “stewards” of the earth and trust the Father to guard the ecosystems, zone layers, fluorocarbons and creeping things.
“Carbon dioxide? I would build a fire pit with an eternal flame.
Dolphins? I would serve tuna steaks every night.
Fuel economy? Hey Son, how do you like my ‘71 Cadillac?”
I am getting so damn sick of you liberals posting here on Free Republic with you supposed retorts to eco-warriors. You are clearly in their camp. Here’s what a real response would be like instead of your petty crap :
1> Burn TIRES. Really big tires. Your eternal flame is a joke at best. You want to shoot for 3rd world air defense tire burning. Damn hippy.
2> Tuna? Really? BE A MAN AND EAT A REAL DOLPHIN! They are cute, intelligent, and tasty! They go great with manatee ... the cow of the sea! What you do is stir fry dolphin and manatee with rice ... blows away any hibachi “steak/chicken” combo.
3> Your 71 Cadillac is way too fuel efficient and lightweight. Drive something that consumes gallons per mile then we’ll talk about your “may as well be a Prius” car.
;-)
As for this article ... I guess this is the genesis of what we typically call an “unemployable person”. Of course, it will be someone else’s fault that he won’t land a job making $300K/year telling people what to eat.