A Canadian study finds that people who identify as ‘green’ are mean.
Regular readers will not be surprised to learn that patchouli-totin’, granola munchin’, hybrid drivin’, dudley do-right dirty hippies are self-centred and self-righteous . But, to have a study prove that behavior is just comedy gold.
From the results:
…those in their study who bought green products appeared less willing to share with others a set amount of money than those who bought conventional products. When the green consumers were given the chance to boost their money by cheating on a computer game and then given the opportunity to lie about it – in other words, steal – they did, while the conventional consumers did not. Later, in an honour system in which participants were asked to take money from an envelope to pay themselves their spoils, the greens were six times more likely to steal than the conventionals.
If you’re thinking this is a deja vu, it’s not. We have seen this sort of self-centred behavior before, from green drivers.
The whole study is here (pdf).
H/T Delingpole.
On the subject of offsets; very interesting market information featured on Bloomberg today:”Coal Beats Solar as Analysts Favor Peabody Energy” A very interesting read- the carbon trading markets are tanking, alternative energy companies are going down hill fast. They say “follow the money” it’s an interesting path.
Uh oh…I smell an auto insurance crisis coming, which will no doubt require the US government to take it over.
Green Fail–tastes like chicken.