Green Tech Girl

Look, I’m not a fan of McMansions, but what on earth is the point of burning them down in the name of the environment? Overzealous nutjobs affiliated with the “Earth Liberation Front” just burned down a bunch of “green” luxury homes in a Seattle suburb. OK, ELF morons: Did it ever occur to you that burning down those houses probably hurt the environment just as much as building them did? So your overall net effect with this was to:

a) discourage green developments
b) make environmentalists look like crazy terrorists
c) hurt the environment…because by burning large buildings, you’ve just increased the number of toxic fumes in the air around Seattle and will now force people to demolish and rebuild on that very same spot.

Good job, idiots. Yeah, that was smart thinking on your part - destroying existing homes really helps the environment…umm, I don’t think so.

Look, these homes may not have been perfect, but at least there was some effort put in to make them green:

One of the people involved in the project said the homes used “green” techniques such as water-pervious sidewalks, super-insulated walls and windows and products made with recycled materials, such carpet pads.

“It’s very disappointing to take a situation where we’re tying to promote good building practices — Built Green practices — and that it’s destroyed,” said Doug Barnes, the Northwest division president of Centex Homes in Kirkland.

If the ELF really thought these people were insincere, a more appropriate and effective action would have been to do a peaceful protest or find non-violent ways to encourage the company to improve their environmental standards. Otherwise, the ELF comes off like a bunch of eco-frat boys looking for the radical equivalent of TPing and egging someone’s house late at night. Real mature.