I want to mourn the loss of all the crabgrass and dandelions, and tell them that we love them!

When tree-huggers get weepy.

(HT: In the Agora)

Gore's energy

He can talk the talk, but apparently not walk the walk.

Earth Day 2008

Be excellent to the earth today. After all, it's our home. While you're being excellent, Watch this video promo for Discovery channel. It's earth-centric!

"...the rest of us will be cannibals."

Ted Turner sees a grim future. Hopefully Will Smith and his German Shepherd will be around to save us.

I made a choice for a healthier Earth

I bought this today from Trader Joe's. I know Al Gore is proud of me.

"They are much like indulgences in that way, aren't they?"

Somehow, Tim Challies connects one of the latest trends of the environmentalist crowd - purchasing carbon offsets for home energy use - to the ancient Roman Catholic practice of selling indulgences. Naturally, he brings up Al Gore.

I was amazed, as I thought about this, how humans are so eager to rely on their own actions instead of grace. Indulgences bypass grace through action, through human merit. Carbon offsets do the same, relying on self-punishment (purchasing "forgiveness" for crimes committed) to assuage guilt. By purchasing an indulgence a person neither needs to regret nor change his behavior. He can simply buy forgiveness in the form of a piece of paper. The same is true with carbon offsets. A person can continue to drive his SUV and fly around the world in a private jet, but have his conscience clear because he has offset his guilt with the offsets he purchases. If we ever reach the point where we are forced by the government to purchase carbon offsets, it is the poor who will suffer and the rich who will benefit. There will be no equality.

Indulgences and carbon offsets showed me something. Somewhere in the human heart is something that demands justice, but demands a perverted justice. It demands a justice that is so human, so flawed. It demands a justice that does not rely on grace.

As Instapundit would say, read the whole thing.

Related: The evangelical catfight over the environment

Related 2: Will this happen in America?

Forgive me, Al...

Dr. Sanity has a great little comic on to whom we should confess when we experience "green guilt."

Cameron Diaz will protect Mother Earth

Cameron Diaz, one of Hollywood's current white-hot stars (you know how quickly that can change in Hollywood - ask the cast of those "American Pie" movies what they're doing now), has shot a reality series, "Trippin", now airing on MTV. The show appears to be about the environment and how to "think and act globally." For a critical review of this show, check here.

I don't know about you, but I love it when incredibly rich, fantastically beautiful, ultra-famous people tell me, Little Joe Whomever, the proper way to act and live. Are we to really think that Cameron and her friends are going to change the way they live? I can hear Cameron now: "You know, I don't really need to live in a 10,000-square-foot house complete with a pool, tennis courts, and a five-car garage that holds a Mercedes, Bentley, Hummer, classic Corvette, and a Lexus RX Hybrid SUV. It is just me that lives here - ok, Justin stays over some, but usually just me. Maybe I can live with just 8,500-square-feet and one tennis court - after all, kids in Chile have to wipe their behinds with leaves."

Update (4/27/05): If you must know and want to read about what celebrities think, you will be glad to know that Arianna Huffington is setting up a blog specifically for that.