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If you decorated your home with lights, or used wrapping paper for your gifts, the Climate Change Science-Deniers, er, environmentalists, want you to know that you are ruining the planet!

Or, something.

Via Daily Caller.

Environmentalists are really worried that your home’s Christmas lights will ruin the planet.

They worry that both the manufacturing processes of the lights and the electricity needed to power them will generate lots of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. They worry that the lights are manufactured in China and thus the amount of CO2 emissions generated during their construction is effectively unknowable….

“Holiday lights result in tons of wasted energy each year,” the environmentalist website GreenerIdeal.com opined earlier this month.“Producing all this energy means more carbon dioxide emissions, which means more damage to the environment.”….

Over the years, suggestions have ranged from merely switching to efficiency bulbs to pulling the plug on Christmas lights entirely and instead opting for “popcorn or cranberry garlands.”….

Environmentalists are also taking aim at the traditions of gift-wrapping and Christmas cards. A student-run newspaper for the University of Wisconsin suggested last week that gift-givers use inside-out brown grocery bags instead of traditional colorful wrapping paper for their gifts, in order to reduce waste….

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  1. MaryVal says:

    Moonbat Killjoys.

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