I have read recently (unfortunately I don’t remember where) that a study regarding electricity consumption in the USA and Western Europe has found that, no matter how much energy saving technology we employ (i.e. efficient light bulbs, LCD panels), we manage to consume even more power.
The rationale for this behaviour is quite simple – we trust technology to save the energy for us. Don’t turn off that light if you don’t need it, let it on because it is ‘energy efficient’.
That is from howstuffworks.com. Or even better, on SEPA: ‘Only boil as much water as you need. Boiling a full kettle for just one cup of tea will generate up to eight times more carbon dioxide emissions.’ Hey, also don’t forget to bring your own bag to Tesco and grab some ‘green’ Clubcard points.
Indeed, why… I also asked myself the same thing a while back and I had no answer; simply put, I did not feel like I had anything important to say. Actually, somewhere on the mockery of a blog that I started in 2008 I published an article about how to not have a blog. As you would expect, it was not a sample of wisdom, of course.
Now, it is not because I have anything new to convey. That would be very unlikely, when there is so much information floating around anyway. I am also too much of an average Joe to be visionary. I did not even read enough in order to start innovating on top of some existing body of knowledge.
