BT had posited that perhaps the global warming faction might find more believers if they had a better marketing campaign. I mentioned this to my wife to see what she thought of that and she agreed after a fashion. She put forth that till "they" see that it is affecting them personally in a day to day fashion, "they" will never change their ways.
Her contention was that if their kids can still play soccer on green grass (no matter what it costs) and without having constant asthma attacks, "they" will never change or bother to admit that it is real, no matter how many polar bears they see drowning or ice flows breaking off the Arctic.
Being the superdooper great lady she is, she thought that it might behoove the global warmers who want to stop it to come out with day to day tiny ways that people can change and have impact without giving up their precious SUV's right off the bat.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Saturday morning on the Today Show, one of the guests I caught was Laura David. She's the producer of An Inconvenient Truth. (Also, she is the wife of Seinfeld creator and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David.) She and (conservative) Campbell Brown went through three or four little things that Americans could do that, if we all did, would be the equivalent of taking X amount of cars off the road.
The first one they talked about was changing the light bulbs to the new corkscrew flourescent things which had a real name like "CPF's" or something but I can't remember it right now. I had long been considering it and just never gotten around to it (especially since arch-conservative BT had already done it).
Another thing they talked about was getting some canvas bags to take your groceries home with. I am working on doing that but I have to admit I'd fill silly doing it at first. I hate those little plastic bags but I hate that we cut down trees to make the paper ones. She equating this (if everyone in the US did it) to saving so many millions of trees.
But I wanted to talk about the bulbs. I didn't do any research on them before I cut out with the wife and the boy to Home Depot on our Saturday morning errand running. At HD, I was surprised to find out that there were like "daylight" vs "soft light" and there weren't all the normal wattages we see like 40 (I didnt' see these) or 75 (my fave).
I had prepared myself to see the prices but paying something like $40 for 16 bulbs was a little cumbersome but I felt good after doing it and isn't that all that matters?
WARNING: We found the "Daylight" versions absolutely unbearable. They're perfect for the porchlight or utility room or attic but they absolutely SUCK for inside or living spaces. It is like straight flourescent light. I put one in the bedroom because our color choices in there are pretty dark and my wife was aghast and said, "God, all that's missing is a low hum and blood everywhere and we'd have a scene from Se7en."
