As reported in the New York Times – “As awareness of environmental concerns has grown, therapists say they are seeing a rise in bickering between couples and family members over the extent to which they should change their lives to save the planet.”
E-gad: The Green Meanies! First it was a fight against developers and other assorted scalawags; now the Greens are fighting amongst themselves.
As one erudite “therapist” puts it -“One still wants to live the American dream with all that means, and the other wants to give up on big materialistic consumption,” Dr. Brulle said. “Those may not be compatible.”
What? The American Dream is about “big materialistic consumption”?
This is rich. There’s gotta be some way to turn this shindig into a money making, reality TV show.
Calling Follywood!
posted by Mudd
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