You might remember a recent Joel Stein column in TIME ridiculing “locavores,” those people who think the world will end if they eat food produced somewhere other than nearby farms.
Stein strikes gold again this week, in a column exposing the silliness of composting. I especially enjoyed this extrapolation from the basic theme:
I’m convinced that the environmental movement is less about making sure
we humans can continue to do important things like fly and drive and
spritz ourselves with cans of Evian and more of an excuse to advocate
an anticonsumerist, antiglobalization, anti-good-smelling-kitchen
agenda. People were living in communes, crocheting their own Rasta hats
and conserving office electricity by not getting a job long before they
knew it was preventing global warming. So don’t pretend that some of
this environmentalism isn’t about pushing a lifestyle. Somewhere
someone is arguing that carbon emissions are somehow reduced by jam
bands.
You’ll find more evidence of this theme regularly at EnvironmentNC.com.
