"Teacher, teacher!  What's the best way to save the Earth?"

"I'm glad you asked Timmy!  The best way to save the Earth is to SHIP plastics and metals to a special location and MELT them at high temperatures (using tons and tons of coal), and pour what's left over into the water system!  Then the new materials can be used to make inferior products that nobody wants!"

"But that doesn't save the Earth!"

"That's the point of recycling, Timmy!  It's to keep people from actually saving the earth by relieving their guilt.  Then, they can keep on purchasing plastic and metal without feeling bad, and industry can keep its costs down!  Isn't our industrial system ingenious?!"

Well, IMHO, Chip and Sarah should have their own variety show.  But if what they had to say about recycling seemed a bit off to such critics as Zacaroni, blame the "Today" people, who provided the frame, not Grist.  Note Matt Lauer's confused report on "Dogs in Greenland," as more evidence that "Today" needs to be taken with a large grain of salt: they are not any more "direct descendants of wolves" than is Little White Dog; and the hardships they have had to endure, as part of their long cooperation with human beings in the Arctic, is a subject that certainly deserves more attention.

Chickens are our cousins! So are fish! So are other sentient animals! Let us learn to be kind.

... Zacaroni's post was a joke, a sly parody of the shrill activist who knows no sense of proportion.

I do love a dry wit.

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Excellent work Gristers!  Feel the mass media progress.

Imagine hearing an explanation of the difference between plugin hybrids and fuel farming as it relates to GHG disaster, keep this up and that could happen.  

Imagine that question asked during a presidential candidate debate.  Hehehey.  

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