Friday, February 22, 2008

The strange priorities of "No Impact Man"

About himself, No Impact Man says:
"A Guilty Liberal" who "Finally Snaps, Swears Off Plastic, Goes Organic, Becomes A Bicycle Nut, Turns Off His Power, Composts His Poop and, While Living In New York City, Generally Turns Into a Tree-Hugging Lunatic Who Tries to Save the Polar Bears and The Rest of the Planet from Environmental Catastrophe While Dragging His Baby Daughter and Prada-Wearing, Four Seasons-Loving Wife Along for the Ride."
From his most recent post:
Most certainly, I love Flocke, the adorable polar bear cub born in the Nuremberg Zoo in January. He's way too cute to drown in an Arctic Sea without ice. That's reason enough, as far as I'm concerned, to change the way I live.
It's virtually certain that human CO2 emissions have caused zero polar bear cubs to drown, while it's certain that bitter cold has recently killed a large number of actual human children.

Given these facts, why does he focus his concern on the polar bears?

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