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  How can you call this a greened wedding?

  Isn't it a tad hypocritical and self-serving for someone to say they're making their wedding "as carbon-neutral as possible", when in reality their wedding is orders of magnitude worse (in carbon emission terms) than any conceivable arrangements made in their home town, and then all they're doing is shaving a couple percent off by recycling 40 paper invitations and buying green tags?

  I mean, Dick Cheney could hold a wedding in a giant open-air coal-fired refrigerator in Palm Springs, have all his guests drive over in their RV from wherever they live, and even use non-recycled paper plates; and he would have made his wedding more "carbon-neutral" than Sean's.

  I don't mean to spoil the party, but think it's a bad idea for people and to try to make themselves feel good about something that isn't good by pretending and hiding behind eco-fluff.

  Rather, they should realise and admit that it's not good but rather very damaging for the environment, and that, what's more, tons of other people are doing the same. Then hopefully they'll feel so guilty and geared for action that they'll get involved in, or at least give significant sums of money to organisations that fight for environmental sustainability.  On Umbra on green weddings posted 4 years, 4 months ago 7 Responses