A world of hemp lingerie?
Following on from my earlier post on Agas & global warming, Melainie Reid in this morning's edition of The Times
Long before we are extinguished by global food shortages or raised sea levels, I predict, we are fated to die of boredom, struck down in our prime by the devastating virus 0157eco-smugness. Doctors will be powerless to stop as the bug invades our minds, causing nervous paralysis leading to eventual seizure. We are doomed, for sure, to terminal ennui brought on by environmental righteousness.
This is the terrible paradox of the environmental movement. The paradox that, if society proceeds down the true path of eco-purity, we may well save the planet; but will simultaneously discover that life is too dull to be worth living on it any more. Women in particular, I fear, will find themselves returned to the Dark Ages.
How can it be otherwise? No skiing, no cars, no travel, no exotic foods, no extravagance, no Hollywood, no wasteful labour-saving devices, no clothes made of anything but recycled plastics and hemp. No more Luxx magazine filled with beautifully engineered, sleek, accessory porn. In their place we will chant a litany of carbon offset, recycling and composting, the buttresses of a new religion that makes radical Islam resemble Methodism.
What is becoming so fascinating about the new puritanism is not just that we are all being brainwashed to accept the inevitability of hair shirts, but also their unquestioned moral worth. That somehow or other, this life of sackcloth and bicycles is going to benefit our souls and make us all better people.
The full text is here & I am now off to spend the rest of the day driving one of my two CO2 belching 4x4's around
Comments
Outstanding work, as well as Clarkson's diatribe concerning the humble spud.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article3778979.ece
Posted by: Todd | April 21, 2008 1:32 PM
Will she smoke her hempen lingerie? Perhaps it's edible as well.
Posted by: MP | April 21, 2008 5:47 PM