The Recycling Religion

Thoughts from John Tierney:

I realize that true believers don’t need rational reasons for their religion, but it would be nice to see a little soul-searching in regard to some stats in the article: To offset the greenhouse impact of one passenger’s round-trip flight between New York and London, you’d have to recycle roughly 40,000 plastic bottles, assuming you fly coach. If you sit in the front of the plane, it’s more like 100,000 bottles — and you have to make sure not to rinse any of them with hot water, because that little extra energy could more than cancel out any greenhouse benefit of your labors.

They were told there would be no math.

2 thoughts on “The Recycling Religion”

  1. This is why it’s so important for each of us to do our part… Every time you recycle a bottle, a Climate Scientist gets to fly another 500 feet towards a taxpayer-paid conference in some exotic locale.

  2. Like every other aspect of the environmentalist religion, it has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with smug virtue-signaling. “Everybody look at me! Look at me! I’m better than you! Look at me!”

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