Tuesday, April 19, 2011

sorry david, i'm not a fruit fly

according to david suzuki, we are all just fruit flies. excuse me?
fruit flies live for approximately 24 hours. they hatch, have sex, lay 10 billion eggs, eat your fruit and die. i fail to understand that analogy. okay i get it, but really, it is pushing it a bit to the extreme don't you think?
he takes extremism just a little bit too far. global warming?! hah! i don't think so. obviously he hasn't stepped outside lately. it's cold and wet and temperatures are well below normal for this year. doesn't seem like anything we need to be worrying about except for the fact that the lake isn't going to warm up anytime soon. okay so the arctic and antarctic oceans are warming up a tad and the ice floes are melting. this might be a problem for the penguins but i'm still in a coat and it's mid april!
took the carbon footprint test. you know the one. the one that measures how many earths we would need to sustain us if everyone lived like i do. i failed miserably. according to the test, it would take 10 1/2 earths to sustain us all if you all lived in my world.
1. drive an suv - fail
2. fly in an airplane lots - fail
3. do not grow my own organic fruits and veggies - fail
4. leave my computer plugged in - fail
5. have not installed solar panels on my house - fail
6. i use a blow dryer and aresol hairspray - fail
the list goes on, but you get the picture.
so what's a poor fruit fly to do?
i think i'll leave a few lights on so the burglars think i'm at home, pack up my blow dryer and fly south til global warming comes to my end of the world and i can put away my winter clothes.

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