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Originally Posted by MOSES  I made it to age 3.
I see a socialist bend to the poll. They make you out to be a bad person (or a dead person) because you live in a big house and you spend a lot of money. I suppose if we just give all our money to the state to redistribute so that we can all equally live in small houses, then we would live longer. |
Actually, it's even more subtle than that. If you make a lot of money and spend it on "green" things, and invest the rest of it in "ethical" investments, then "you can live forever."
In the "Science behind the answers" section it is fairly forthright. You actually get more points for driving a polluting gas guzzler because that means that you have to spend less on other things that cause even more pollution. If your flying is for business, you get penalized because you have more money to spend on other things (they presume that your company paid for the tickets). But if you send that extra money to "approved" businesses in the form of investment (just ask Al), then you find the required atonement for all your CO2 sins.
Elsewhere on the website it says that it is better to buy things made in China than Australia because it is more labor intensive and less fuel intensive. They figure that sweatshops are better for the earth than modern factories. Pleasant people.
But of course, they are concerned only for the earth, not its inhabitants.