Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Gordon Fleming is, by his own account, an environmentally sensitive guy.

He bikes 12 1/2 miles to and from his job at a software company outside Santa Barbara, Calif. He recycles as much as possible and takes reusable bags to the grocery store.

Still, his girlfriend, Shelly Cobb, feels he has not gone far enough.

Ms. Cobb chides him for running the water too long while he shaves or showers. And she finds it “depressing,” she tells him, that he continues to buy a steady stream of items online when her aim is for them to lead a less materialistic life.

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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Marriage & Family • * Economics, Politics • Energy, Natural Resources

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Posted January 22, 2010 at 8:00 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) wrote:

Who could have imagined it? Pharisees (!) in the modern secular religion. Soon they’ll attempt to ration toilet paper. For the trees, you know.

January 22, 8:33 am | [comment link]
2. Sick & Tired of Nuance wrote:

Run Mr. Fleming!  Run fast, run far…crawl if you must, but flee!

January 22, 10:38 am | [comment link]
3. John A. wrote:

... and enviro-fundamentalists.

They believe in original sin: you can’t help yourself.  Your behavior is determined by nature or nurture.  Of course the word ‘sin’ is never used but the secular view seems to emphasize predestination with very little room for free will and accountability.

They believe in apocalypse: the destruction of the ecosystem or the revenge of Gaia.  One variant is that we will destroy the ecosystem the other that I have heard from friends is that the Gaia will retaliate with cataclysmic weather, mudslides or other unforeseen natural disasters.

January 22, 10:44 am | [comment link]
4. David Keller wrote:

#2—I was thinking the exact same thing.  If I were Fleming I think I’d head to Ruth’s Chris and forget the therapist!

January 22, 11:27 am | [comment link]
5. Jim the Puritan wrote:

I can see it soon will not be safe for me to set foot in Portland or Seattle.

January 22, 2:14 pm | [comment link]
6. Chris wrote:

there is just no pleasing some people, and Ms. Cobb would appear to be one of them….

January 22, 2:18 pm | [comment link]
7. Cennydd wrote:

2,4, and 6:  I’m with you all!

January 23, 12:55 am | [comment link]
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