Mantaining an energy-rich lifestyle is self-deception

George Monbiot.

The idea that we might maintain present lifestyles while mitigating climate change is simply self-deception.

Our present energy-intense ways of living is a fallacy and can even be extended to the frequent national and international gatherings of those who call and argue for societal changes.

All these gatherings are of themselves energy-intensive and their very existence contradicts the values they espouse.

Guardian columnist, George Monbiot, writes about this contradiction and apparent lack of action in his latest piece: “ApplaudingThemselves to Death”.

He writes: “If you visit the website of the UN body that oversees the world’s climate negotiations, you will find dozens of pictures, taken across 20 years, of people clapping. These photos should be of interest to anthropologists and psychologists. For they show hundreds of intelligent, educated, well-paid and elegantly-dressed people wasting their lives.”