Going Green like Kermit the Frog

Going “green” is a rich man’s game.

Right before watching a movie in the theater, I saw a project with Tommy Lee and Luda-kris promoting going “green”. They interviewed guys like Magic Johnson who states, “You know, going green isn’t hard.” The whole time I couldn’t help but think of the irony that was taking place. Here are these multi-millionaires who are making cash hand over fist, who own more cars than I will have in my life time, who own houses that pump more energy than I would in my life time, and really are probably the biggest energy wasters on the planet, and yet they are telling me (someone who barely has any money) to start going green.

Conservation is a great idea, and the things I’ve read about alternative energy sources like mindmills and hydro-electric technology it seems like the way to go, but to start hounding the middle class to essentially “shape up” seems typical. It’s typical of the rich to not understand the struggles of the poor, to look at us and wonder why we aren’t doing anything.

It’s also rather hypocritical. But you would have guessed that by now. So I won’t push the point.