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July 08, 2007
I Was Using CFLs Long Before Al Gore Asked Me To
I wanted to find time to respond, and do so coherently, to a pair of posts from Glen Dean about the Live Earth concerts and planetary reaction to climate change in general. It would have taken quite a bit of time to cool my jets enough to be more than a drooling idiot, so, fortunately, Clark Stooksbury has taken up the challenge, and has done a swell job.
Listen, I was trained practically from birth to monitor energy consumption. And, let's be clear, this training had nothing to do with global warming. (Earth was pretty much its regular temperature back then, and I have snow pictures to prove it.) It was simply called being frugal. My dad instilled in all of us a deep distaste for leaving lights on when not absolutely needed, for example, and any other form of waste. Therefore, it disgusts me to the core to read comments like Glen's — not only due to his lack of concern for the planet, and (for one) my son's life on it, but mostly for the simple principle of personal conservation. No one "earns" the "right" to waste anything. It reminds me of one of Dad's favorite aphorisms: Liberty does not equate to license. Freedom, he always intoned with appropriate gravity, comes with responsibility.
Energy policy | By joe lance | 10:48 PM