Journal pudge's Journal: Australia: Hey Kids, If You're Not Green, You Should Die! 7
According to this page for kids from the Austrialian Broadcasting Corpotation, if you use more than "your share" of the planet's resources, you are killing the planet, and you yourself should die in a bloody mess when "your share" of the resources is used up.
I am not exaggerating. If you end up with CO2 of over 3.0 tons, the cartoon pig representing you explodes and only a pool of blood and tail remain, with the caption "You'll use your share of the planet in N years." And if you 3.0 tons of CO2 or less, your pig flies into the air and they say, "At this rate, you could live forever!"
Simple message: if you produce little CO2, you could live for a long, long time. If you produce too much, you shouldn't.
The best part is at the end, where you find out that the wealthier you are -- specifically, the more money you spend -- the quicker you should die. Unless, of course, you spend all that money on "stuff that's better for the envionment" or "ethical investments." Apparently if you donate money to single mothers or homeless vets, that kills the environment.
Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.
What's truly sad is that the enviro-fascism... (Score:2)
People will react to the extremism and ignore the question entirely.
Which is a shame, because there is some common sense and wisdom underneath the crude attempts at manipulation through fear and guilt.
I was actually doing okay, ... (Score:1)
... only 30.4 metric tons of terrible, noxious, poisonous, unnatural carbon dioxide, until I got to the spending part. Wow, note to self, consider Australia for my retirement locale -- it must be cheap living there if the average Aussie only spends $10-$25K for the whole year! My category somehow balooned my chemical weapon assault on our poor Mother by more than double.
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Spending money == you should die.
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It is so polluted around my place the wildlife is just dying off. Poor things. I can't drive down my drive way without nearly hitting one of the poor dozens of rabbits who eat the trees I plant. Or the birds living under the hood of the propane tank or nesting in the turn around. Or deer living in the small ash grove. Or wild turkey or pheasant. I'm daily making it unbearable for these poor creatures.
http://www.crazydays.org/index.php?module=photoalbum&PHPWS_Album_id=26&PHPWS_Photo_op=view [crazydays.org]
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http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/6530.02003-04%20(Reissue)?OpenDocumen [abs.gov.au]
Average weekly expenditure
2003-04
Current housing costs (selected dwelling) 143.50
Domestic fuel and power 23.59
Food and non-alcoholic beverages 152.87
Alcoholic beverages 23.32
Tobacco products 11.55
Clothing and footwear 35.26
Household furnishings and equipment 52.00
Household services and operation 54.24
Medical care and health expenses 45.78
Transport 139.25
Recreati
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That's probably per household, but that kooky website's might be in terms of per individual. From your referenced site Australia had an average household size in that same period of 2.53 persons. I'm sure they don't count taxes ("good") as part of spending ("evil"), and leaving off paying extra on the mortgage which is really more like contributing to savings rather than spending (/evil consumption), that's $47,608.08 annual spending. So $18,817.42 per person. Adjusted to USD (today) it's $19,770.35. Uh oh.