As a reluctant part-time environmentalist and full-time skeptic, I was somewhat nauseated by the zealous congregation of eco-activists, tree huggers, and general hippies that I found trolling about the "Focus the Nation" event. The milieu was puzzling and a bit psychedelic, as I passed in a daze between sets of dreadlocks, pictures of polar bears, pictures of dreadlocked polar bears, and the occasional well-dressed man who wished to say with his necktie something deeper than "live green or die."
I sat in on a seminar, in the front, wearing a derisive smirk. Swarms of students and staff methodically unleashed "success" stories about their conversion to biofuels and (more disturbingly) their conversion of other students to the green regime. Many of these self-proclaimed "free thinkers" were intent upon absolute and uncompromising ec0-assimilation, in which eco-friendly citizens revel in communal prosperity while conservative infidels pay in fines and jail time for their carelessness.
One week later a Princeton study was released, detailing the negative effects of the green effort. Apparently harvesting biofuels drastically increases carbon emissions and, in effect, is destroying the world at a more rapid rate than those nasty fossil fuels everyone has been worried about. Oops. I guess someone forgot to read their Merton.
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