Slacktivism: an example

I've put up with the emails about polar bears from www.stopglobalwarming.org for quite some time.

I even participated in the "click here to have your voice counted" (but regretted it now I have heard about slacktivism).

But today I got an email newsletter from them. I can't copy what they said (copyright breach) but I can write the email that I sent back to them because I was so appalled:

Okay, telling me a 160 square mile ice cube has chipped off the Antarctic is important.

Then telling me the current green issue of Elle is made from 10% recycled paper is definitively not.

Can you even begin to defend the triviality of the "Elle" item in your email? Have you gone mad? Have you sold out?

What were you thinking?

Rob

Since when was anything 1/10th recycled newsworthy?

Fiddling while Rome burns.

While I'm at it, fashion is planned obsolescence. It's rubbish. Style is about using clothes and clothing styles to define the way you look. They're different things. Style wins over fashion every day. Period.