Posted on 09/13/2008 12:18:44 AM PDT by fightinJAG
Everyone's always talking about how an aging population, with more retirees, is going to wreak havoc on Social Security and the federal budget. Here's my question: What impact will that have on the planet? After all, my grandparents don't seem to care much about global warming, their refrigerator is from the 1970s, and they use an awful lot of air conditioning at home. Give it to me straight: Are Grandma and Grandpa bad for the environment?
"Do it for the kids" has always been one of the most popular arguments in favor of environmentalism: Older people need to get their act together, or else it's the children who will suffer the environmental consequences. Indeed, in terms of what they buy and how they vote, younger Americans tend to be more eco-conscious than seniors, who are less likely than anyone else to believe that global warming is a man-made phenomenon. But here's the weird thing: In practice, it's the older folks who are better for the environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
this is satire right?
Who, me??
Ya want for me to go wake up Gramps and ASK him?
do young Americans know how to gut a pig, grow a fruitful garden, fix their own car, plow a field, can vegetables, or even stare in wonder at the night sky without the "beep" of a text message on their cell phones?
God help us!
as i watch my father grow older, and look around at the youth of today, i cannot but wonder where all of the true grit our ancestors showed has gone.
sadly, i think that we are a dying nation.
Socially conscious people know what to do about old people...like...did anybody see Obama’s grandmother recently? < /sarcasm>
I thought this was going to be about my Dad passing gas.
This article is NOT green. Somebody wasted a lot of energy researching and writing it.
What an ass. Gramps generation fairly INVENTED air-conditioning and refrigerators. The writer (assuming this isn’t satire) has whatever virus spreading around these days turning people into self-loathing emasculated neo-Luddites. They won’t fare very well, paradoxically.
Slam old people.
McCain is old.
Obama is young.
Next week:
White hair is worse for global warming than black nappy hair.
No, he looks fine to me.
I gave him a kiss.
That makes two of us.
I always like a huge laugh when I wake up. Thanks!
toooo{t} funny, had chile and beer last night... read your post -snorted in my morning coffee.. must be my grandpa-plumbing acting up...
Oh, Wait that would mean giving something not getting.
gee. those people at slate are so smart. they can figure anything out and intellectualize every issue they conjure up in order to manipulate everybody and confiscate money. one wonders why they don’t just cancel the elections and just hand power over to the democrats at slate, the democrats in the congress and the democrats who surround every tax dollar and who just love to be smart and call everyone else a moron.
IMHO
Sadly, i think you are absoluteley right.
Yes Virginia, Grandpa is bad for the environment, that’s why we need to convert him into Soylent Green. /s
That;s because it isn't. And it isn't just "old" people that know this either. What granny and grandpa need to do is sell their assets, rent or buy a nice retirement condo for themselves, and have fun blowing their sniveling, ungrateful grandchildren inheritance having a good time in their golden years. The sniveling 'global warming" brats need to work so they have less time to indulge in 'global warming" propaganda.
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