O’Neal: ‘Green’ Is Getting Tedious

I’m thinking that, to do something for the environment, I’m gonna buy me a Hummer. Let me explain. Indisputably, we should be all good stewards of the Earth. No one wants rivers and lakes to be toilets or the air to be fouled with pollutants. Environmental zealots, though, narcissistically wrapped up in their own sense of preciousness, take a perfectionist approach to environmental issues, which is inevitably doomed to failure. With 6-plus billion people inhabiting this planet, resources are going to be used, stuff is going to be burned, and we’re going to make messes. Rather than turning environmentalism into a religion of pointless gestures, like cloth grocery bags, sane people take a different approach. They focus on what works at a cost that’s reasonable/ Michael J. O’Neal , Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here .

Question: How do you rate yourself in terms of environmentalism?