I’m not one of those conservatives who are giddily ostentatious about driving a leather-plated Hummer with high-drag wheels while smoking cigars made from the pelts of endangered species.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Neither, naturally, am I one of those groaningly over-earnest Greens who’ve elevated “environmentalism” into an aescetic religion.\u00a0 Far<\/em> from it.\u00a0<\/p>\n I doubt I’d even call myself a “crunchycon”, because human beings should never be referred to as “crunchy”, unless you’re an M-1 Abrams driver and a carful of Al Quaeda have rounded the corner in front of you.\u00a0 No, I merely happen to like a cool house, and I bike to work, not out of any contrived whinging about global warming and its probably-fictional human causes, but because I, myself, happen to enjoy biking.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n But after seeing Nih[i]list’s recreation of Algore’s footprint<\/a> – 140 metric tons of carbon a year, compared to the average American’s roughly 9.5 tons – I decided to go check out Yahoo’s “Carbon Footprint Calculator<\/a>“.\u00a0<\/p>\n My – actually, the Berg Family’s – results?\u00a0<\/p>\n You create 5.7 metric tons of CO2<\/sub> per year.<\/strong><\/p>\n Your impact is BELOW AVERAGE<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hm.\u00a0 Who’da thunk it?\u00a0<\/p>\n (Although the only way, it seems, to really be acceptable is to stay childless and\u00a0 live in a tent in Hawaii, without a car, and reaching the mainland only via outrigger canoe.\u00a0 But only an outrigger made from a tree that died of natural causes, since chopping down a tree will increase your carbon footprint).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not one of those conservatives who are giddily ostentatious about driving a leather-plated Hummer with high-drag wheels while smoking cigars made from the pelts of endangered species.\u00a0 Neither, naturally, am I one of those groaningly over-earnest Greens who’ve elevated “environmentalism” into an aescetic religion.\u00a0 Far from it.\u00a0 I doubt I’d even call myself a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}