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Inconvenient Truth: Best Way To Help The Environment Is To Avoid Green “Eco-Friendly” Products<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Make no doubt about it: it’s now trendy to be the most planet-loving, alternative energy supporting, climate changing fighting Captain Planet <\/em>that you can be. And what would being a friend to environment be without sanctimoniously ridiculing those who disagree with you or aren’t on your level of sustainability? Just ask Greta Thunberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, as often happens with virtue signaling, the reality of the matter is far askew from how pretentious environmentalists present it. <\/strong>In fact, RT reports<\/a> that avoiding <\/em>all of the “green” eco-friendly products available on the market could be the best way to help the environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often lost in the fray is the fact that the fight against climate change is going to make some people very wealthy. The world will invest $90 trillion <\/strong>in new infrastructure in order to fight climate change over the next 10 to 15 years, as reports show that consumers will pay more to buy “sustainable” earth-friendly products. Unilever says that a third of consumers buy based on a brand’s environmental impact. A fifth of consumers favor “green messaging”, the same data shows. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not all products billed to be friendly to the environment actually are. For instance, organic farming “isn’t the planet-saver it’s promoted as, according to a study<\/a> published last month in Nature Communications.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study shows that farming crops like beans, potatoes and oats organically creates more emissions over the entire course of the farm-to-table cycle than farming conventionally. “Trying to get all of Britain eating organic would create an environmental catastrophe,” said researchers at Cranfield University. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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