The Onion: I'm Doing My Inconsequential Part For The Environment
We can’t recommend enough a recent piece from The Onion, located here.
I’m Doing My Inconsequential Part For The Environment says what a lot of people are thinking these days, and it’s pretty funny too.
“Now is the time to take steps toward creating a cleaner environment, however insignificant and useless those steps may be. That’s why I’m doing my own laughably inconsequential part to end pollution, limit damage to our precious ecosystem, and preserve what remains of our planet’s biodiversity for future generations… Conservation is more urgent than ever. Scientists inform us that the combined effects of fossil-fuel consumption, land clearance, and overfishing the planet’s seas have already ushered in a period of “mass global extinction,” the sixth so far recorded in Earth’s history, and the only one to be entirely man-made. In the next century, between two-thirds and three-fourths of all plant and animal species now in existence could become permanently extinct. But by carefully conserving water with the specially designed low-impact toilet I had installed, I can take comfort in the knowledge that I did what I could do to delay this inevitable global death-age by as many as several nanoseconds.”
Well done, Onion, well done. Again, read the whole column here.


