I’ve sometimes thought Bill McKibben was little more than a do as I say not as I do type fraud, especially since he flies so much. #greensgobyair . Seems I was right. Via Twitchy:
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Environmentalist Bill McKibben is the head of the anti-carbon group 350.org as well as a “notable member” of the “Plastic Pollution Coalition,” which seeks to make all cities “plastic free.”
McKibben has also said this:
“Some fights, like global warming, are necessarily hard. And some fights are no-brainers: let’s stop using plastic stuff we don’t need.”
Unless there’s no other way to get your groceries home from the store, apparently.
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What’s he doing shopping at all?? Shouldn’t he be getting his food only from his pea patch on his penthouse?
Anti-Carbon group? Shouldn’t he then be trying to eliminate himself and all its members?
Priceless…..
Expedience trumps Ideology every time.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are MORE equal than others.”
I guess being an eco-activist and global warming alarmist means never having to apologize for being a hypocrite.
“Some fights, like global warming, are necessarily hard…..”
Yea, especially when there are enough of us skeptics out there who know the whole thing is a lot of B.S.
A bit ad hominem; I guess most of the Watermelon crowd are hypocrites.
Goodness, I’m not always totally consistent myself.
But still, a reasonable kick in the nuts for one of the bigger Cucurbitaceae.
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In Austin TX they have banned plastic bags. I ended up having to buy some other bags that were apparently “green” because they were umm… The color green.
“Plastic Free” or “Save the Trees”. What’s a shopper to do?
(I wonder if the frame of his glasses is metal or wood?)
He must have forgotten his cloth bags at home.
Actually, plastic grocery bags don’t work well. The groceries fall out of them in the car. The big “green” bags work great. They’re strong and roomy and have handles. Superior totage. Bill McK should get some. Not for ideology, but for functionality.
He has to do his own shopping like a peon? Guess Al Gore’s monthly check doesn’t cover the housekeeper salary.
Obviously those are biodegradable bags like I get from my local fruit shop.
The plastic bag crusade baffles me. Since you’re supposed to wash the cloth bags whenever you put meat or produce in them, how do they save resources? Everyone I know uses the plastic bags twice, once to bring food home and the second to line tiny trash cans in bathrooms. What do they expect us to do with all the black goo leftover from refining crude if we don’t make plastic out of it?
Anthony, shame on you. My Braves won last night and it’s college football day. I was in a wonderful mood until I opened WUWT and there is Bill McKibble, as in dog food. Way to ruin my day. What I would like to say about Mr. McKibble would get me banned from WUWT so SELF SNIP.
Got to love the twitter folks defending him…apparently their defense of Mr. “plastic free” is that there are uses for plastic.
I remember here in Canada it was Dr. Fruitfly that told us all to use plastic not paper bags to save the trees wish they would make up my mind. ;>)
Et Tu Bill ? Must be thinking about his garbage cans. Is that at his local Wallmart ?
Mr. McKibble is against plastic. Well HOO RAH. There exists in the Pacific Ocean a widening gyre of plastic bits littering our world. Maybe those Greenpiece (intentional misspelling) boats would be better off sweeping up some of that junk then harassing whalers and Russian Oil platforms. And, yes I consider it a crime against Nature To “harvest’ a whale. Maybe doing something about plastic bits floating in the sea would be too much like work for the greens.
How is he going to walk home with all those groceries?
The plastic bag ban started in the British Isles in Ireland, spread to N Ireland and to Scotland. England will follow in due course. The reason was littering – ragged bags flapping stuck in trees and hedges, also damaging wildlife.
The idea of banning plastic altogether came much later turning the issue into a green one.
I support the litter clean up, and it has really helped in this, but the idea of banning plastic completely is just too ridiculous to deserve comment.
RobRoy says:
October 5, 2013 at 9:15 am
Actually, plastic grocery bags don’t work well. The groceries fall out of them in the car.
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uh Rob, tie the handles together
Must add that there was no ban actually but just a ban on FREE bags (they now cost 5p each) in order to reduce the litter problem.
He is just like the Priests of old acting as the intercessionaries between the masses and God (GCM’s). All their sins are absolved.
The take home lesson here is to lock up your sons, daughters and wealth whenever these oracles come around.
I’m sure he purchased plenty of plastic offsets to himself to ease his guilt over using plastic. sarc off
Actually the plastic in the bags come from natural gas.