The point of “utopian environmentalism” was to reduce guilt. But the ecological irrelevance of these practices was beside the point.” – that requires huge quantities of fossil fuels. “After all, we can’t escape the fact that we depend on an infrastructure – roads, buildings, sewage systems, power plants, electrical grids, etc. Their significance is therapeutic, but not for the planet. Nordhaus and Shellenberger note the telling “insignificance,” as environmental measures, of planting gardens or using fluorescent bulbs. But when a Goode child apologizes to his parent for driving too much, and the parent responds, “It’s OK … what’s important is that you feel guilty about it,” the program touches upon an important phenomenon: ecology as psychology.
“The Goode Family” does not threaten Jonathan Swift’s standing as the premier English-language satirist. The show “feels aggressively off-kilter with the current mood, as if it had been incubated in the early to mid-’90s, when it was possible to find global-warming skeptics among even the reasonable and informed.” That is a perfect (because completely complacent) sample of the grating smugness of the planet-savers, delivered by an entertainment writer: Reasonable dissent is impossible. The New York Times television critic disapproves.
#Green bubble letter a driver
Everybody wins!” Helen shops at the One Earth store, where community shaming enforces social responsibility: “Attention One Earth shoppers, the driver of the SUV is in aisle four. And when Gerald says his department needs money to raise the percentage of minority employees, his boss cheerily replies, “Or we could just fire three white guys. The college, where Gerald works, gives students tenure. Gerald and Helen Goode, their children and dog Che (when supervised, he is a vegan when unsupervised, squirrels disappear) live in a college town, where T-shirts and other media instruct (“Meat is murder”), admonish (“Don’t kill wood”) and exhort (“Support our troops … and their opponents”). Still, the program is welcome evidence of the bursting of what has been called “the green bubble.” Cartoons seem, alas, to be the most effective means of seizing a mass audience’s attention. The incessant hectoring by the media-political complex’s “consciousness-raising” campaign has provoked a comic riposte in the form of “The Goode Family,” an animated ABC entertainment program on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. In the history of developed democracies with literate publics served by mass media, there is no precedent for today’s media enlistment in the crusade to promote global warming “awareness.” Concerning this, journalism, which fancies itself skeptical and nonconforming, is neither. As is today’s chorus summoning us to save the planet. WASHINGTON There once was an Indianapolis concert featuring 50 pianos.
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