TV execs go for the money and get the message wrong... again

First of all, I'm not one for setting up composting toilets or collecting body hair to stuff into the walls as insulation, I think of myself as more middle of the road.

This article made me laugh though. I see this kind of stuff all the time at work. folks want a beautiful, weed free lawn (made of grass) without work and without chemicals. They want (to buy or grow) organic produce, but they want it cheap, abundant  and just as blemish and bug free as the chemical stuff. (come on folks, a little apple scab or coddling moth won't kill you) I guess they have been watching this TV channel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/arts/television/04watc.html

Turns out TV is sending the same kinds of mixed messages. with this watered down, half hearted attempt to grab some dollars out of the green trend without actually having to be green.

Truthfully, I don't think this green trend will last, the media will get it wrong because they are more interested in getting you to watch the show, than in telling the truth. Because thats how they make money. The companies who make products will get it wrong because they are more interested in convincing you to buy their product , and less interested in actually producing a product that is less destructive to the envirenment. Because they make money by getting you to buy stuff, not by saving wetlands.

In the end the people will get jaded with all the lies (called greenwashing) give up and refuse to change, because deep down we all like our cheap, plentiful, simple, no worry lives just the way they are (I do).

We won't chage, we won't become more eco-friendly until it is financially nesecary to do so. Until then we can watch fun TV shows that claim to be about green living and buy a few old products in new packages.

Tell me I'm lying.