Originally Posted by
khaos
I live in Ithaca, which I believe is the new Berkeley, where people do use composting toilets and what not, and when Cornell wanted to cut down an area of trees about 40yds by 20yds, literally 150+ people went to live in them and had to be arrested on account of trespassing... and yet only two of my friends are interested in straight ballin', and everyone I talk to thinks its crazy:
(starting from the point where I say its good for the environment)
"Plus its good for the environment"
"Yeah but what if you cut your throat?"
"You don't. The angle is different."
"Well they invented cartridges for a reason."
"Yeah but think about all that steel you're chucking out, not to mention packaging and what not."
"Yes but I recycle the paper and plastic."
"Fine."
"Fine." (with a haughty shrug of liberal superiority- the same one I get when they've decided they've won a prius argument with me.)
edit:
Prius argument... either Pop Mechanics or Pop Science looked into it, and a Prius is worse than a conventional car fo rthe environment because it is made of plastics and aluminum, both of which are oil intensive (plastic is made of oil, aluminum takes a lot of heat to purify the ore), and the heavy metals in their batteries can't be recycled, is rarer than steel, and will only last about 100,000 miles. A well made conventional car will go 300,000 (and be ****ty yes, but... my friends volvo is at 320,000) and gets 24 mpg, compared to my other friends prius at 31 mpg...