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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See picture:
Source:
[ https://twitter.com/scollinzz/status/386163293301116928 ]
I meant “from himself”
All of the stuff in the plastic bags is obviously organic produce (no meat!) grown within an easy walk to the store by oh so sincere and earnest environmental studies graduates.
Local sheep provided the wool for his sweater.
Indeed. The problem is not plastic, but the completely slobs who weren’t properly brought up and never learned to clean up after themselves. Just take a look at a park after environmentalists are done holding a protest rally.
He is just an idiot that keeps on giving. Just priceless. Whoever took that pic should get an award. 🙂
Our County recently banned plastic bags because they are made from oil. The fact that they are made from natural gas was simply too difficult for the Council to absorb. We now use paper bags from recycled paper. They are weak in the extreme and extraordinarily vulnerable to moisture. Further they take up to 10 times the area in a landfill as a comparable plastic bag and take 10 times longer, or more, to disintegrate. Plastic bags in my State are treated with cornstarch and are made from a product that is extremely susceptible to ultraviolet light (for litter control). The net effect is the plastic disintegrates in 6 weeks. We are governed by idiots who take their cue from parasitical fanatics who style themselves ‘experts’.
Gunga Din says:
October 5, 2013 at 9:10 am
“Plastic Free” or “Save the Trees”. What’s a shopper to do?
(I wonder if the frame of his glasses is metal or wood?)
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My guess would iinclude plastic and metal.
Steve T
Apropos: “Quest for a life without plastic”
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/Quest+life+without+plastic/9000202/story.html
Not only does his 350.org organisation fly so much, they even boast about it.
As for authoring a dozen books, let’s just hope they are extra absorbent and fit for toilet purposes.
If plastic bags last forever and it is so terrible to bury them in landfills, one wonders why it is a great idea to bury other kinds of carbon. Why not bury plastic bags and get some kind of a carbon credit? (Of course, I think plastic bag restrictions, fossil fuel restrictions, carbon credits, and all the hype of carbon dioxide effects on climate are stupid.)
aren’t plastic bags recyclable?
McKibben is becoming a hypocritical legend in his own time.
“If we’re going to stop climate change, we don’t need to just cut our carbon emissions a little bit — we need to cut them down to zero,” he added.”
Bill McKibben, 350.org, in Cambridge Chronicle, 07/29/2013
So then what about these little factoids-
350.org is McKibben’s ragtag group of fools and incompetents that are trying to rid the world of fossil fuels through college campus mischief. A large chunk of 350.org is funded from The Rockefeller Foundation, which has access to a mountain of old-family wealth generated from the sale of…fossil fuels!
McKibben mentioned recently that he doesn’t feel hypocritical about his flying addiction-
“Well, I don’t know that I feel like a hypocrite anymore. I mean, I fly all the time, or I have for the past few years as we’ve organized 350.” Salon, 9/14/2013
McKibben also says he isn’t an activist as he flies around organizing an activist group-
“I, as you can tell, am the furthest thing from an activist leader. I’m a writer.” Bloomberg article, 07/26/2013
McKibben uses green energy at home-
“The roof of my house is covered in solar panels.” Salon Magazine, 9/14/2013
Vermont utilities currently get 99.6% of their electricity from carbon-free or carbon-neutral nuclear, hydro and biomass. Bill’s solar panels in Vermont are probably increasing his carbon footprint!
“When I’m home, I’m a pretty green fellow.”
Salon Magazine, 9/14/2013
Well, the photo of his shopping cart speaks volumes.
Finally, McKibben has a child. He must be aware of the peer-reviewed science that states every child adds 9441 tons of ‘poison’ to his carbon skidmark, and represents the worst possible eco-sin that a touchstone activist can commit.
I don’t think McKibben actually gives a crap about global warming.
I think he is simply acting the part of an eco-activist to pay the bills.
Let’s see what the unnecessary things McKibben can avoid?
A partial list of products made from Petroleum (144 of 6000 items)
http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm
Plastic bags are derived from natural gas. When you use a plastic bag you are already recycling, otherwise the ethane in natural gas would be burned off and add to co2 emissions. I do understand the case for not using non-biodegradable bags that can be a litter problem.
Chris in comments notes:
What is so amazing is on his own website on the front page on the second line I read:
AND
Yet he says “I, as you can tell, am the furthest thing from an activist leader. I’m a writer.” while addicted to flying when not just promoting his books.
The reason was littering – ragged bags flapping stuck in trees and hedges, also damaging wildlife.
That’s true. The British countryside has been completely destroyed by roving gangs of litterers, and you can no longer see the grass for the plastic.
Oh, no, actually, it hasn’t.
I lived in Britain for years, and never once remember seeing a ‘ragged bag stuck in a tree or hedge, damaging wildlife’. I’m sure they exist, but they’re clearly rare enough that I never saw one. Which isn’t surprising, given people use them to carry stuff, and don’t just drive around the country throwing them everywhere.
This is just more nanny-state claptrap from small-minded Greenists who hate oil companies and love making petty rules to harass the majority who just want to live their lives. I mean, really, with the global economy collapsing around our ears, does anyone actually think governments should be worrying about what kind of bags people use?
After seeing one lone show lying on the side of the road countless times I started 1shoe project to ban people for wearing more than one shoe. Some fights are hard, but nobody can argue if there were less shoes there would be less shoe pollution. Unfortunately the profiteers from big shoe have fought me all the way because this minor inconvenience is too expensive for saving pollution and helping the planet. What would they say to the poor duck I found with his bill stuck in a shoe who died shortly after?* I will be accepting payments for shoe credits that will be used to offset shoe pollution.
*I may or may not have put the shoe on the duck
Jimbo-
Great stuff! Nice find, and thanks for posting it here.
I love it. This makes my day.
Life is hard. It is even harder if you are stupid or a hypocritical green loon. But then I repeat myself.
Some plastic bag energy statistics:
From Reason.org 100,000,000 bags can be produced from 8300 bbls of light oil. That is 12048 bags/bbl or at 42 gal/bbl it is 287 bags/gal
Now if the family SUV you take shopping gets 20 mil/gal
Then each plastic bag uses enough petroleum to move that SUV
0.070 mile/bag, 368 ft/bag or 110 m/ bag.
If you can carry 5 bags of groceries, you save petroleum by walking instead of driving as long as your walking will save at least 1800 ft or 0.35 miles of driving.
Here is a comparison of Paper or Plastic from
https://www.ncga.coop/newsroom/paper-or-plastic
The statistics seem to come from the EPA as noted in another source.
Wikipedia: Reusable Shopping Bag
[1]That seems low to me. Perhaps they are referring to reusable polyethylene or polypropylene bags, not cotton, which seems confirmed by the WSJ quote below. And it doesn’t count the energy needed to wash them occasionally after being contaminated by raw foods. On the other hand, one reusable bag will usually carry the volume and weight of 2 or three plastic bags.
WSJ, Sept 26, 2008,“An Inconvenient Bag”
Dmitri Siegel, UTNE Sept-Oct 2009
San Francisco instituted a tax on shopping bags. The net effect at the grocery store is that poorer people now load all their groceries onto their shopping cart, then load them directly into the trunk of their car. The process takes much, much longer than it used to.
It has changed the behavior of some people, true. The rich people just ignore it and pay the ten cents per bag without even thinking about it.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, their rules are for you, not for them. The “elites” are always exempt.
Well, lol, while, YES, indeed, great photo, good luck making it stick. McKibbles (Stan Stendera!) has already put out this damage control (I think he hired an actor, personally) video.
“I wasn’t shopping at Walmart (or where-EVER he was!) I was down at Barnes & Noble, doing my Yoda imitation. See, look here:”
Who guessed that it could be so simple?
All measurements point to the average global temperature TREND since 1610 (the start of regular recording of sunspot numbers) being driven by something(s) that are driven by the sunspot number time-integral. OSCILLATIONS above and below the trend are the net effect of ocean cycles. Since temperatures have been accurately measured world wide, the net effect of ocean cycles has been very nearly ±1/5 K with a period of 64 years. Most recent peak was in approximately 2005.
Aerosols, volcanos, change to the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, etc. have had no significant effect on average global temperature.
All this is shown at http://conenssti.blogspot.com/ and sub links.
Eventually it will come down to carbs.
It always does.
The normal rules are suspended during a Jihad.
Gaea allows her chosen ones, the warriors of nature, special dispensation to pollute the planet, so they can dedicate more time to the great cause 🙂
A wind turbine engineer once told me that because of his job, he felt he did his bit – the “harm” caused by his fuel guzzling family boat was more than balanced by what he did for a living.