I found an interesting article while perusing the Internets the other day. It describes how video gaming is actually an environmentally friendly, or "green," activity (sauce). Some of the things they say are silly, but others make sense. It's hard to damage the environment when you spend so little time in it. Game consoles don't use a whole lot of electricity. Super Mario Bros. is still as fun a game as it was in 1987. I tell you, this could be the start of something big. Save the environment; play video games! Why should I go out and plant a tree. They've been doing alright for themselves this long. I say stay inside and leave them to their own devices. More food for thought: gamers hardly throw anything away. I have kept the same casing that the game came with for every game that I purchased (or acquired by some other means). I'm sure that gamers are one of the biggest customer bases of the bookshelf industry (that and, y'know, the minority of Americans that actually read books). The same goes for rubbish in general. If a garbage can is out of arms reach, you can be sure that that Snickers wrapper isn't going much farther than the coffee table. I haven't been able to find my coffee table since Halloween. I would get my dustpan and brush, but they're too far away. Let us not forget the vegetative state many gamers enter once they start playing. When you're nearly comatose, you're probably not breathing too hard. That almost neutralizes your carbon footprint from having the console on in the first place (source: my as~).
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Ha. I personally feel that spending anything more than 20 minutes, say, per month playing video games is a big, fat waste of time. But, that's just me. Life is too short to just spend hours and hours twiddling your fingers while staring at a screen.