To mark last week's global commemoration of Earth Day, the wise and witty guys over at Mercator opted to skip the whining against big oil which mark practically all the stories you hear from the old guard media. Instead, they listed 10 major ecological problems that never get mentioned.I'm going to list the ten eco-villains they name below but you really need to go check out the paragraph or two of supporting information that the Mercator writers provide for each culprit. It makes for eye-opening reading indeed.
It’s Earth Day again, an occasion on which to reflect on our sins against the environment and make resolutions to clean up our act. We are familiar with the usual suspects: overpopulation, oil companies, overpopulation, chocolate, cattle farmers, the coal industry… and did I mention overpopulation?
Well, forget all that. Here’s our top 10 eco-villains, most of them getting away with ecological murder to date.
1. Underpopulation.
2. Big cities.
3. Consumerism.
4. Solo living.
5. Big government.
6. Coffee.
7. Weather in the United States.
8. People who don’t like being cold (and that’s most of us).
9. Facebook.
10. Al Gore.
