Tomorrow is the start of the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. No, I won't be going. I'm wary of any event that involves large numbers of white people gathering to set things on fire.
The only good thing about Burning Man is that, for a few days, San Francisco will be rid of a few hundred annoying faux-bohemian types. (If I were inclined to emulate Ann Coulter, I might go further and suggest that Burning Man would be an opportune time for that other great Nevada desert tradition, a nuclear weapons test. But I'd never stoop so low.)
This year, Burning Man is purporting to go "Green":
For the first time, Burning Man participants will be able to "offset" their global warming impact much the same way large corporations do, by investing in clean energy projects.Yep, they've bought into the trendy-but-empty-gesture-of-the-monent, "carbon offsets". Burners feeling guilty about all the fossil fuel they waste driving to the desert, and all the pollution they generate by burning tons of wood, can assuage their consciences (but not achieve very much else) with token cash payments in the delusion that this will somehow help to alleviate global warming. Perhaps next year they can sign up BP as a sponsor.
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