SWA #3

Kwame Appiah makes several arguments in the article What will future generations condemn us for? all of which are frankly quite ridiculous and very liberally biased. However, in light of the assignment I will address the topic of the environment since when you break down most liberal arguments you find this at the root of it anyway.
One major argument of the liberal hippies is that of organic foods. Which are supposedly much better for you, with less chemicals, and the farming processes are supposed to better preserve the environment. This is frankly horse manure, the american cancer associate released a statement saying that the pesticides found in fruits and vegetables in no way caused cancer. As for the farming processes if the entire world switched to organic farming at maximum farms could provide enough food for 4 billion people, this just in. Our world has 7 billion.
Every single argument like this for the environment turns out the same way when you actually look into it. Being environmentally conscious is a fad, people just want something to be angry about, they don't look at facts. They just believe everything they're told. Americans are naive. Which brings us into the photo of the girl with the leaf mask as an advertisement for the Prius.
I'll admit the Toyota Prius is incredible on gas mileage and its carbon emissions are astronomically smaller than that of most traditional vehicles. But that's where Toyota stops the story, what they fail to tell you is that while the Prius reduces carbon emissions it's also reducing much more. I'm sure you've seen the ads in support of stopping coal mining because in order to mine it countless mountains and landscapes are being destroyed. Well guess what's even harder to mine than coal. Lithium, the amount of lithium required to make a single Prius battery, has more environmental impact from it's mining than a Prius could make up for in TWO lifetimes.
Environmental arguments are all emotional, but we don't need emotion to keep a sustained planet, we need logic.