The guy also loves big old cars. And he prefers to blame corporations,
> rather than things like a fondness for driving, for our ecological problems.
>
Which, to a certain extent, he's right to do. Less than a third of US CO2 emissions come from road transportation, with under 20% caused by consumer-style vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks). Unfortunately I don't have an individual/company use breakdown on hand ( http://www.iacdctransportation.com/research/vmtdrivinganalysis.pdf). Hell, as Derrick Jensen recently noted, even if every last American undertook every single lifestyle modification advocated for us by Al Gore, that would reduce overall US carbon emissions by only 22% ( http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801). Hair-shirted attempts to prevent catastrophic climate change by reducing individual consumption, while ignoring the far greater effects of industrial and military consumption, are at best innocent hobbyism, and at worst a potentially lethal distraction.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."