Happy Earth Day... brought to you by Wal Mart!!

I was enjoying a lovely pb&j for breakfast and watching Daytime Columbus when an "environmentalist" came on to tell me about ways I can make a difference without causing any inconvenience for myself. His prescription: buy buy buy!! You can buy these awesome organic t-shirts... after you wear them, you'll need to wash them, so buy Tide's new cold water detergent so you don't waste energy using warm water. And to hang them up, buy these recycled hangers...

It's great that he is encouraging everyone to use cold water, but why should we buy a specific brand of detergent? You can just as well wash your clothes in cold water with any detergent that you can buy anywhere. But can you get the items he is advertising just anywhere? Nope.

Where is all this great stuff available? Wal Mart!! Where else? The fact that an environmentalist is encouraging me to buy stuff in order to save the environment is dubious because as we all know, buying means that we waste tons of energy. But the fact that this guy is touting Wal Mart as an environmentally friendly company is outrageous.

So I researched this "environmentalist" named Bob Lilienfeld only to find that he is as much an environmentalist as George Bush was an honest man. Robert M. Lilienfeld is President of The Cygnus Group, where he " has 30 years of marketing, strategic planning, public relations and advertising experience in both the consumer and business-to-business fields." This is completely fucked up.

That he is duping everyone into spending their way out of global warming makes sense knowing that he is a business man, not a genuine environmentalist. It also shows that corporate America will stop at nothing to keep consumers spending, no matter how dire the economic or environmental situation becomes. How irresponsible of all the news channel to affirm this man's lies... but I guess everything is just goddamn peachy so long as you shop at Wal Mart.