In my neighbourhood it
has become trendy to post a blue sign on your front lawn, one that reads, “Leave
fossil fuels IN THE GROUND”. I walk by several of these each morning.
These messages adorn the snow-covered lawns of $800,000+ homes with their natural
gas furnaces blasting away in the face of our Canadian winter, their driveways
filled with SUVs and other premium fossil fuel-consuming vehicles.
Such cries for change
are eminently dismissable, their transparent virtue-signaling drowning in cognitive dissonance and unintended irony.