Josh Dorfman, Lazy Environmentalist, Says Don't Feel Bad

Reuters:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Self-described lazy environmentalist Josh Dorfman has a plan to save the planet that is a little unorthodox -- he tells people to stop feeling bad about taking long showers and driving fast cars.

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Comments

[euripedes923]

Converts to any cause are usually annoying fanatics until they settle down. Everything becomes a pi**ing contest over who's the better environmen­talist/Chr­istian/fil­l-in-the-b­lank. I stay away from fundamentalists of any stripe. Especially Moonies hawking Amway products. ;-)

[RightWingMarine]

I suppose I'm more than a lazy environmentalist and more of a hostile environmentalist. I live two miles from my work but I drive anyway. I drive a convertible but keep the A/C on. I use only styrofoam cups at work and I only use them once each.

[whocan]

most environmentalists are lazy sheeple who follow the cult blindly with little or no actual knowledge of what is going on .

[AbsurdHero]

Being an environmentalist and still driving an Audi isn't lazy, it's selfish. Priuses aren't any harder to drive, they're just not as flashy.

Maybe 'The Half-Assed Environmentalist' would have been a better title?

[SeanOcali]

Judging people for what car they have is nimwitted. The prius driver who lives 15 miles away from work is worse than the audi driver who lives 10 miles away.

[lastpost]

1/ Don’t produce wrapping designs/materials than cannot be easily disposed of. (Unless an offset surcharge is incorporated in the purchase price).

2/ Devise universal containers customised with inexpensive paper label/coverings.
(Identify problem items and organise open competitions to find solutions)

3/ Utilise prison labour for refuse sorting/reclamation duties, using offers of sentence reduction. (Free up cells, and reduce institution running costs).

[Yves Papa]

Yes.
And I keep my incandescent lights before I prefer the warm glow, and I ride my bike to work because I hate holding a steering wheel on a jammed "freeway". (And I love the snow egrets on the bike trail and the wild flowers I can take to my office.)