Thought of the Day: "Green Movement"

Quick!  Somebody uses the term "green movement" - what is the first thing that pops into your head? 

"Oh, sure.  A green movement.  Collin has those sometimes." 

No, no, no...not those kind of movements.  We're talking about the earth.  The movement to make everything we do "good for the environment."  Sustainable, if you will. 

Environmentalists as we know them today, are a case study in liberal clichés and utter hypocrisy.  Case-in-point:

At the Iowa Blog Cabin, for better or worse, we tend to watch a lot of HGTV.  So last Sunday, we're watching this show about this couple that wants to improve the curb appeal of their home - landscape, front porch, etc.  BUT, they want to do it in a way that is completely "eco-friendly" and "sustainable." 
They begin the project by cutting down the tree in their front yard.  Uhh...  They then proceed to rip out four huge bushes that were in front of their porch.  Uhh...  They then rip up half the grass in their yard, all the way down to bare dirt.  Uhh...  Once they completed their environmental destruction, it was time to save the earth.  They constructed a new porch out of some kind of earth-friendly, recylced, reused, plastic composite.  Great.  They ripped up their old walkway and replaced it with a new one made of "reclaimed" stone.  However, they weren't able to get enough reclaimed stone, so they had to buy new.  The host's reaction to this non-eco-friendly purchase, "It's okay, you tried to buy eco-friendly.  That's all that matters." 

Uhh, no it's not! I yelled.  We're saving the BLEEPING earth here!

No matter.  The earth saving continued.  They planted some flowers in the freshly barren dirt patch (including building a new retaining wall to catch the run-off and erosion caused by the lack of GRASS in the yard).  In order to make sure these newly planted organic children thrive, they topped the new flower bed off with - the pièce de résistance - organic free-range chicken poop fertilizer (I'm totally serious).  You see, it's free range.  It's better for the earth. 

After they were done, the stood in the street, patted each other on the back and congratulated each other on a job well done.  They had improved the curb appeal of the house - sustainably.  In an eco-friendly way.  Ignore the fact they cut down trees, ripped out bushes, ripped out grass in order to do so.  They felt good.

What's more eco-friendly, class?  Doing what these people did, or doing nothing at all?

One more example of how completely insane these people are.  Don't get me wrong, if you want to cut your trees down, I don't care.  If you want to build a new porch, go for it.  If you want to rip up all your grass so you can lay in the front yard and make dirt angels, I won't stop you. 

But don't tell me you're saving the earth.