...the environment as well as studying issues in sustainability especially as it applies to human development goals and the interface therein.
Since I know fairly intimately the details of industrial processes, I would never assuage my guilt with nonsense about wind and solar energy.
I for instance am acutely aware of how many resources have been squandered on solar and wind in the last ten years. Here's a clue: this amount is greater than the GDP of India, a nation with well over 1/7th of the world population. This money has been squandered in a world where over 1 billion human beings lack access to any kind of improved sanitation.
I also continuously monitor carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere.
Since you are hyper aware of the world, and feel entitled to question my ethics, perhaps you can tell me if all this wind power and solar power and enthusiasm for Musk's car for millionaires and billionaires has lead to an increase or decrease in the rate of CO2 accumulations.
How about I simply say that what I am doing is something other than embracing smug feel good platitudes about reality, that it consists largely of knowing shit from shinola?
Were I to own a big array of solar cells - I don't - I'd want to know what became of them when they morphed into yet more electronic waste.
My personal feeling is that it's a good idea to question advertising. Without it, one's deleterious impact is obscure.
By the way, I am in fact a bourgeois asshole, but at least I know enough to be ashamed of it.
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