Saving the World

Decided this week to cease ironing my cotton work shirts. Wrinkles are ok, at my work I can dress how I please, so I am saving energy and simplifying my life, and delaying the greenhouse mass extinction.

In Cuba, Fidel decreed that all schoolchildren must wear polyester shirts, because he claimed that irons are a fire risk. As much as I love Fidel (and his beard), this illustrates the folly of CPE micromanagement. Its absurd to have the head of state meddling in shirts. And polyester sucks in the heat. Better tees.

definition:
SFA Symbolic for Actual (also Sweet Fanny Adams, Sweet Fuck All)
Activities taken with a lot of fuss to preserve the ecosphere, but which actually have minimal impact
example: the campaign to eliminate plastic shopping bags. These do little harm to the biosphere, apart from the odd turtle munching those blown out to sea. They are effectively inert, and are about as dangerous to the environment as sand, ie not very. The plasticisers, maybe pthalates, maybe causing 9 year old girls to grow breasts and lowering sperm counts, but the earth can cope with that. Plastic bags are a byproduct of the oil industry. After the peak (2005-2012?) byproducts may vanish. Meanwhile plastic bags are very convenient and hygienic. Obviously they can be used many times, and its sensible to reuse them, but they can not be central to any ecological program.
Its absurd that Aus citizens are focused on plastic bags, when the 100kW chariots they drive are driving us all to the precipice of mass extinction.
Thats what I mean for SFA, Symbolic concerns masking the Actual dangers.
(also see my definition for Toxic Biophilia, eg playing golf while imagining its close to nature)