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The glossy backlash

Yesterday I took a few potshots at the Wired green issue.

Now the glossy backlash continues, with a DailyKos diarist going postal on the Vanity Fair green issue:

Every pathology of the overripe zenith of American hyperconsumerism and narcissism, proudly flaunted in one shiny, garishly overcoloured, borderline-porno, pretty-shiny-toxic package.  What an experience.

Bitchy is the new green!

Amen

Oh my goodness:

WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps.

Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. For those who can't attend, a live Internet site and toll-free prayer line have been established.

In a release, the Pray Live group said many people are "overlooking the power of prayer when it comes to resolving this energy crisis."

Apart from sending a message to God, the rally had a message for humanity, said Wenda Royster, the group's founder.

"It is our hope that seeing and hearing some of the nation's most powerful preachers gathered around a gas station and the United States capital as a backdrop, will remind everyone who is really in charge of our world -- God," Royster said.

The Web site is at praylive.com. The toll-free phone number is 888-PRAYLIVE.

S'pose it has as much chance of working as this stuff.

(via EnergyBulletin)

Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva fights illegal logging in the Amazon

In the northern Brazilian state of Pará, where the mouth of the Amazon cuts into the continent, illegal logging, industrial farming, and a human-driven cycle of massive wildfires are destroying the tropical forests. Since he was a teenager, Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva has considered it his mission to help protect these forests, and the isolated […]

Worth 1000 words

Classic.

Update [2006-4-28 14:37:38 by David Roberts]: Ooh, Yahoo has a whole photo montage. Worth 10,000 words!

From Bo to ‘Boards

Bo, you do know diddly In honor of Global Love Day (serious!), we’re spreadin’ the love this week. And where better to start than with Bo Derek? The notorious “10” was just named U.S. special envoy on wildlife trafficking. Which we’re sure is unrelated to her wild times with Bush’s new chief of staff. Photo: […]

Have You Hugged Your Tree Today?

On Arbor Day, appreciate the trees Urban forest cover in many U.S. cities has declined about 30 percent over the past 10 to 15 years, according to the green group American Forests, and that’s just not cool. Literally: loss of trees means loss of shade, more AC, and higher energy costs. On Arbor Day (you […]

Throw in a Pony, and We’ll Talk

In lieu of real energy policy, senators propose sending people checks Apparently driven insane by high gasoline prices, congressfolk are reaching virtuosic heights of pandering and venality, approaching some sort of Platonic ideal of What’s Wrong With Politics These Days. Exhibit A: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) just unveiled a proposal that would bribe […]

Pollute Suit Riot

States sue EPA for not regulating CO2 Ten states have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. EPA over what has become a central point of contention between the feds and … people who have to live on the planet for the next 50 years: whether or not the agency has the authority to regulate planet-warming […]

Hypocrisy yet again

I really really really wish everyone would go read this post by Matt Yglesias, and then read it again. He's making a point that I've made many times before: the monomaniacal focus of pundits and (many) activists on hypocrisy makes neither substantive nor tactical sense.

Driving less is great, but producing more oil is a less-desirable reaction

In this post, David echoes what seems to be conventional eco-wisdom on high gas prices:

It's good that gas prices are rising. We want people to buy more fuel-efficient cars and drive less.

I'm not so certain.