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Originally Posted by Igottago
Secondly, why does everyone who bashes Suzuki bring up his home in Pt. Grey or properties, or the fact that he travels by plane?
Are environmentalists supposed to live in teepees and travel by horseback to be taken seriously?
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If he had one "modest" 4000 square foot home, I could take him a little more seriously. And I don't think it's the mode of transport (air travel), it's that he doesn't use commercial air travel.
He preaches for the rest of us to shut everything off, while he has a bigger carbon footprint in a year than I will have in the rest of my life. A classic example of "shut everything off" is the following commercial:
I get not using a big fridge for 4 bottles of beer. However buying a beer fridge instead would not only pay for itself in a year, it would continue to use less electricity year after year. (230 KW/h instad of the 1240 in the commercial.)