July 9, 2008

QOTD:

“ The individual carbon footprint of any particular activity under the current policy regime just isn’t relevant — the point is that the current policy regime is bad and needs to be changed. When you see the Democratic Party aiming for a carbon neutral convention, it does much less to improve the environment than it does to define environmentalism in terms of an unrealistic standard of behavior that few individuals will reach, while rending huge swathes of the progressive community vulnerable to spurious charges of hypocrisy from the right.
Matthew Yglesias