Do environmentalists fly more than than Joe 6-pack?
Though it's no surprise to anyone who follows green celebrities and their seemingly contradictory travel-intensive lifestyles, a group of researchers in the UK say that people who live green at home are the most likely to take long-distance flights -- thereby erasing their energy savings. Now, I'm not exactly sure what this is supposed to mean or how they've managed to measure this -- but according to the article, people who live green are having trouble cutting down on their hypocritical vices.Sure, most people are hypocrites in one way or another -- but is this supposed to mean that green efforts in the home don't save energy? That's ridiculous. Yes, it's true that being green has turned into yet another trendy way of keeping up a politically-correct, socially-conscious appearance. Maybe CFLs and recycling are truly ways of offsetting the eco-guilt incurred by jet-setting. So what?
What the research fails to point out is that most of these people would take their two or three long flights to the beach/ski resort anyway -- so they are actually saving some energy.
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