No Impact Man: So far, a bit of a moron..

I'm in the middle of watching No Impact Man, which is a documentary about a guy in NYC who decides to take his (small) family off the grid for a whole year in order to discover what it is like to live with no impact on the environment.
Before saying anything else, I feel I must point out exactly how much environmental impact it must have had just to have all the cameras and microphones and crew following this misguided liberal around for a year while he muses on the benefits of wiping his butt with old rags instead of environmentally acceptable toilet paper. BTW, since he claims that the benefit of using rags instead of paper is that they can be washed and reused, AND he does laundry in his bathtub using Castile Soap, Borax, and his feet as the agitator, I am less than convinced that they are remotely sanitary. Personally, I think the whole point of living in a developed country is that you have more sanitary means of cleansing at your disposal when the need arises to take a poopy. But I digress, as I always do...happily claiming the title of Tangent Girl. My point was...cameras, microphones, crew. Um, hello? They were obviously using electricity to film him riding his bike and tooling about town buying locally grown tubers at the world's most expensive farmer's market. And, since they were filming outside, I bet they were using batteries to keep their machinery running. Do a little research on the production of batteries and see what their environmental impact is, you'd be shocked. It's a good reason NOT to drive a hybrid car.
Aside from the filming aspects, I have a few other things to point out from my current position midway through the film:
He and his wife have a conversation about having a second child and I was completely appalled by his argument for why they shouldn't. His first statement was something to the effect of "Who's work hours are going to be impacted by this, because right now are both really happy with where our careers are and we don't want a second child messing that up." Er..selfish much? From what I can tell, and I have no other basis for my opinion OTHER than the video itself, he doesn't actually go anywhere for 'work'. He's a writer. He sits at home or flits here and there to interviews with Diane Sawyer while his wife has a 9 - 5 as a reporter for a well known magazine. Now, I'm not saying being a writer isn't a real job, but I am saying that personally I find it sad that people put their jobs ahead of their children. I'm sure I'll get comments about that statement and I need to be really clear here. I'm not talking about families where both parents have to work just so they can eat, I'm talking about yuppie morons who put owning the latest iPhone and Marc Jacobs bag, and living in a NY apartment paying ridiculous rent ahead of their involvement as parents. I'm a bit confused about the parents in question though, because I can't sort out what happens with their daughter Isabella during the day. Either dad is home and takes care of her every day OR she goes to day care. If day care is where she spends her days then I need to take a moment here and talk about the environmental impact of day care. See, you can have fifty billion worms in a box composting your ex-breakfast, and use rags to wipe your rear parts, but you negate ALL of that by paying someone else to watch your kids while you gad about acting like Captain Environmental. Does the person you are paying follow your same philosophy? If not, you are spending money to ruin the environment via your child's caretaker. I'm sure they use all sorts of paper products, non-local food, cleaning products, non-recyclables, and electricity at the facility where your child attends. And that isn't even counting the daily food, cleaner, paper, electricity, and product consumption of the people assigned to watch your child. So, if they did in fact send Isabella to day care, they cleanly negated all their polar bear protecting by sending her there.
And speaking of Polar Bears...ugh. I'm so tired of hearing people spout nonsense about them drowning. For the last time, IT. IS. NONSENSE. There aren't droves of helpless polar bears being sucked into a watery grave due to me using incandescent bulbs. Sometimes, like any animal that lives half its life in water, they die in the water. I'm sure snakes drown sometimes too, but I don't hear anyone crying for them. The thing about polar bears is that even though they are the most aggressive and dangerous bear on earth, they are VERY VERY VERY cute. All that white fur and and snugly chub coating a lumbering near-sighted bear is just more than most people can resist. However, I must point out, they will eat you like nobody's business. Sometimes they die. Everything eventually dies. We aren't drowning them with global warming. Let's move on.
And speaking of global warming...here we go...
It's a lie. A huge money-sucking, big government, big business scheme. Having said that, I must say this:
I love our planet. Love it. And I hate that we are so wantonly destroying the wonder that God made just for us. Being environmentally conscious is not just for liberals or tree huggers, it's for Christians. You shouldn't need any made up global warming scheme to convince you of the importance of being good stewards of the earth. So, while I don't agree with their "science", I do agree with the suggestions most liberal environmentalists have for taking care of our planet. Less waste, more reusing, recycling, re-purposing. Eat locally. Grow your own food if you can. Get a shelter dog and not some fancy pooch if possible. There are a whole slew of little things you can do on a daily basis to look out for the little corner of the world you live in. Hey, if every person in America looks after their little corner, won't the whole country benefit when all those corners are put together?