Why do you hate environmentalist?
I hate them most because they are all hypocrites. Most of them drive bigger cars then I do. I got a 7 year old Ford Focus and like that I don't have to get a second mortgage to buy it and it cost me very little and I can afford to put on 40,000 miles per year.. My green "friends" generally live in environmentally sensitive areas like Canmore and drive SUVS. What's up with that hypocrites?
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I don't hate them so much as I hate the insane ideas they push for. Granted, it is great to care about the environment, but most of the time the solutions they come up with are worse then the problems at hand. In their haste to save the environment, most of the time they rush haphazardly into solutions that create more problems than they solve and the main reason this happens is because they are so emotionally zealous. We all know that emotions make us irrational. Well, the more emotional someone is about saving the environment, the more likely they are to go about it irrationally. They do what FEELS good or what they FEEL is the right thing, regardless of wither it actually is or not.
hate them most because they are all hypocrites. Most of them drive bigger cars then I do. I got a 7 year old Ford Focus and like that I don't have to get a second mortgage to buy it and it cost me very little and I can afford to put on 40,000 miles per year.. My green "friends" generally live in environmentally sensitive areas like Canmore and drive SUVS. What's up with that hypocrites?
I don't hate environmentalists. To me some of the people who claim to be environmentalist aren't. How can you fly all over the world in a private jet and call your self an environmentalist? Who is the greater environmentalist the guy who drives the 25 mpg vehicle or the one who rides around in the 5 mpg limo?
You make a good point; in many instances there is a lot of hypocrisy. Of course such people are not genuine environmentalists, even if they choose to call themselves that. But there are a lot of real environmentalists out there who really do care about our planet so please don't lump them all together.
For me, I am too old to cycle or walk long distances, my village has no bus or rail service and I am forced to use a car - so I try to compensate in other ways.
Do you really need to drive a car?
you are generalizing all environmentalists on your "green friends." though that is hypocritical, they are not real environmentalists. "real" environmentalists are people like Amory Lovins who redesigned his entire house to use no electricity from the grid. he grows a banana farm in his house in the rocky mountains all by harnessing the sun's energy. I don't consider myself an all out environmentalist, but I am very much concerned with the environment and I do try to reduce what i use and conserve what i can. I take 5 minute showers, i watch very little TV, i put my electronic appliances on a power strip so i can turn them off when i don't use them, i drive a 1.4 litre inline 4 cylinder Camry which doesn't have the best gas mileage, but i carpool whenever possible. this is a short list of what i do and I don't feel like i've sacrificed anything to do them.
I agree that a lot of people who call themselves environmentalists really aren't. but there is no reason to hate them. you can only point out their flaws and help them do better. I hope you do. peace!
What does environmentalists have to do with your car? When they have cars better than yours, how is it related. Environmentalists are the persons who are doing everything so that we can go back to nature and to receive back nature's bounty. Our environments are being corrupt with pollutions (air, water and solid) that create diseases, crime and poverty to the world. The environmentalists are trying to eradicate these pollutions.
well i live in south carolina, and i find it funny outside of the college where the environmentalist teachers are, there are 14 hummers in the teacher parking lot...
Because they are trying to force there vision of the world onto everybody else. A tactic made worse when they use lies to do it. They are to much like Hitler and Stalin.
I like to think of myself as an environmentalist. I don't drive.
Well, I've almost no knowledge about cars and things like that, but I guess that how environmental a car is doesn't necessarily all depend on its size, but like the mechanics inside etc.