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Greenpeace Economics Fail
Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 10:49 PM by Richard Schitts
I would make a good green activist. Why? Because I understand economics. People don't like stuff that A) Costs them more money or B) Costs them their jobs. Well unless they are going to die, which I don't think will happen and explain here.
-It brings a happy tear to Greenpeace's eye.
Greenpeace "slammed" oil companies for raising their prices on the down low. Wait, wouldn't higher oil prices be a really good thing for GP? Wouldn't this mean other energy sources would start looking more economical? Shouldn't GP be encouraging oil companies to raise their oil price and congratulate them for doing it? I guess not - Greenpeace likes their oil the same way everyone else does: Cheap.
Further Reading:
Edited on: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:12 PMPosted in Things GP Doesn't Like (RSS)
Guess who doesn't use toiletpaper?
Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9:00 PM by Richard Schitts
Another thing that Greenpeace doesn't like: Toilet paper. Greenpeace says they found mixed tropical hardwood in some toilet paper in New Zealand. Of course they have no way to telling where the wood actually came from, if it came from full trees, old tree stumps or leftover bark! GP's logical conclusion with this knowledge was the "...hardwood is associated with deforestation in Indonesia, which Greenpeace says is destroying the natural habitats of animals like the Sumatran Tiger."
The TP company response was as follows:
Cottonsoft’s director of corporate affairs Steve Nicholson says there’s “no credible evidence” for the allegation Greenpeace is making against Cottonsoft products.
“Cottonsoft products are approved by one of the world’s leading authorities on forest certification.
“That means that Cottonsoft products do not contain any high conservation value wood, which is fully protected under Indonesian law.”
Mr Nicholson says [t]he test that Greenpeace commissioned, published and is now citing in the media lacks scientific credibility.
It is reported the protest has the possibility of putting 100s of people out of work. But you can bet the publicity will make Greenpeace some money!
Maybe we should just use our hands?
While we're on the topic of the forest industry...
At one point in my life I worked for a pulp and paper company (years ago). The reality is that the full hardwood trees a Greenpeace activist portrays are NEVER used to make pulp. A hardwood log is simply more valuable when used for other things. Another somewhat related point - when a pulp and paper company owns land the forest on that land is tended like a garden. Let me give you and example. Find Nova Scotia on the map... geographically it probably reminds you of New Zealand right? Did you know that Nova Scotia has almost 1 MILLION more acres of forest than it did in the 1800s? This is due to... drum roll... modern pulp and paper companies tending their land in a sustainable fashion.
Source:
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/greenpeace-toilet-paper-campaign-putting-jobs-risk-nk-99508
Edited on: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:02 PMPosted in Things GP Doesn't Like (RSS)
Who Could Hate the Iphone?
Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 7:14 PM by Richard Schitts
Well it's official, Greenpeace bashed Apple. Basically GP would like the iphone if it was biodegradable and... edible? I would like a rocket powered car, but I don't go out and protest car companies because the don't make one. I'm sure Chevy would make a rocket car if they could, just like Apple would make a biodegradable laptop if they could. Again Greenpeace fails to understand reality.
It turns out that Greenpeace protesting Apple's environmental practices started months earlier when Greenpeace offered to give Apple an award. The catch was that Apple had to pay GP a substantial amount of money to receive the award. When Apple said "No" GP went on the warpath and even created a fake Apple website protesting all apple products.
Greenpeace doesn't quite understand how to use it's new Apple TV
Further reading:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/59856.html
http://www.fakesteve.net/2006/10/greenpeace-story-behind-story.html
Edited on: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 7:33 PMPosted in Things GP Doesn't Like (RSS)