Removing the nambsy-pambsy, feel-good nonsense of some factions of the green movement from potential replies to this question, I ask,”Is living green dangerous?” Some recent examples of how living the green lifestyle doesn’t fit with modern times.
- Smart Car safety concerns — more mileage for your car, less for your life:
“The bottom line is, you can?t repeal the laws of physics. You can have all the airbags and all the safety features that currently exist, but you can never make a small car as safe as a bigger, heavier one.? - Bicyclists who treat their people-powered mode of transportation as if it were mechanic — the modes-of-transportation-equality movement is flawed:
“It’s often helpful to ride in such a way that motorists won’t hit you even if they don’t see you. You’re not trying to BE invisible, you’re trying to make it irrelevant whether cars see you or not.” - Alternative energy — Being green over eating greens:
“The push to turn our food into fuel has played a role in the rise of food prices here in the U.S. and globally. And it?s only going to get worse as American farmers respond to the federal mandate and more and more of our farmland is committed to fuel and not food.”
The point here is not to support the status quo, but to instead highlight how attempts at wholesale changes to lifestyle patterns through government fiat and not consumer demand is not only unintelligent, it’s also dangerous. Suggesting, and in some cases forcing, a fringe group of gullible individuals to change their habits while encouraging them to continue to live their life in the real world can make everyone’s life more difficult, not to mention less safe.
