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So The National Geographic Society has awarded India with “Greenest Country”. They studied and rated the globes countries and measures industrial output and hunter gatherer societies and electrical consumption per capita and energy in general and wow, India won.

Is it just me who views this as the twisted thinking it is? One needn’t have visited India to know what its like there. More, isn’t it painfully obvious that the people of India, who literally subsist with a mango tree, a few other plants, maybe a fish from a river nearby if they are lucky, and live in mud or thatched homes that are washed away each year July-September when regions receive over 100 inches of rain in 60 days, isn’t it obvious they are busy lifting them selves up, and long for maybe the privilege of indoor plumbing, and dare I mention indoor climate control in the middle of a country where highs see 12 degrees in mid summer?

Oh that we could discard all but a single change of cloths, live in caves, and one day be bestowed such an honor as comes from the National Geographic Society.  That life in the manner of India is glorified, or other even worse places, where life expectancy can be half ours, by folks commuting to mid-town offices and swilling lattes and they wax eloquently about the green miracle that is some of the most difficult life on the planet.

Its sickening.

No, you're not the only one that sees something crazy, here!  The power of suggestion is certainly at work, and can plant thoughts in the minds of the average American while appearing to be 100% innocent--"just reporting a story, that's all!" 

So many of us won't stop and digest the context, making sure that this is "really saying what it seems to say"--let alone challenge it, and ask the question, "but is that really true?

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