Green Nutters
Dark Green ‘carborexics’: The obsessive generation of extreme environmental activists - Telegraph
A new survey claims that seven per cent of Americans now qualify as “dark green”, hard core recyclers and carbon footprint worriers. But it is unclear whether some of their behaviour qualifies as eco-leadership or bordering on the obsessive-compulsive.
....mental health experts are worried. “If you can’t have something in your house that isn’t green or organic... if you’re criticising friends because they’re not living up to your standards of green, that’s a problem,” said Elizabeth Carl, a psychologist and specialist in obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Dr Jack Hirschowitz, a New York psychiatrist, said such behaviour qualified as a disorder if it was taking precedence over everything else in the subject’s life.
As we have been saying - mad as a box of frogs. I have nothing against anyone living how they want to. If they want to live in a mud hut, eat only seaweed and heat themselves by dunging in the fireplace, that is thier choice and they are welcome to it. But just shut the feck up and stop trying to force me to live as you do, OK.
