“Top five greenest nations on the planet.”

Naturally, whenever you read something like that, your bullshit detector should be beeping and flashing, because apart from the fact that such a thing is essentially impossible to rank, generally the media will take something like a study, over-simplify it in order to break something complex down into bite-sized chunks that the masses can easily digest, and then declare it in such a way that it sounds like “fact”.

I checked out the article, linked through to the study itself, conducted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy. Called the 2010 Environmental Performance Index, it left me troubled by one thing: the study almost completely ignored what is perhaps the biggest contributing factor to “greenness”: consumption.
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Paraphrasing Aldous Huxley: “facts do not cease to exist because we ignore them”.

The environment is obviously a tremendously important topic for human beings, mostly because we are self-centered and wish to remain alive. So, we have decided that we all need to be keenly aware of maintaining the earth in whatever state is perfect for our life systems to function — oops, sorry, the proper PR line is — “we all need to save the planet”.

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