Question by : For US Only, Do many Americans use ‘Green living’ to express how rich they are? Or did they in the past?
The UK is going green very fast, but the only display of wealth in terms of greenness here is in hybrid cars. What is it like in the US?
Is there any website that makes ‘green’ look glamorous? Do you think people ‘go green’ to ‘look cool’? I need proof please
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Answer by howard
No, in fact I think that most Americans are rather skeptical about the whole idea. The main reason is that while some nations try to impact pollution by having strict rules, other nations (China being a big one) don’t really care because they are struggling to industrialize themselves. For example, in 2007 air pollution levels in California suddenly jumped after consistently improving over the last 40 years. The source of the pollution increase? Coal fired power plants in China. Chinese government is planning on building more and more of these. I was in Suzhou, China last Spring and the air pollution was so bad that your eyes hurt riding in a closed car.
Many people think that “Green” movement is a fad, dictated and popularized by the media and a few brainless celebrities. Remember “global warming”? Now no one talks about that, instead it is “climate change”.
I don’t care what my “carbon footprint” is. I have always lived conservatively, buying small efficient cars and building an efficient home. That, I think, is more important than getting swept up in foolishness like the recent “cash for clunkers” program here in the States. People do not take a good hard look at what they are being told. Why scrap a 10 year old car just because it gets 25 MPG instead of 32MPG? Consider the amount of energy it takes to make a new car – isn’t it far more efficient to keep what you have going?
I think if everyone chose to live responsibly like I do we would not have a lot of the issues we have today and people would be more satisfied with their lives.
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