Treehugger.com (one of my fave websites!) posted an article yesterday about UC Berkeley students sequestering themselves at the top of a tree to protect a grove from being eradicated. Now, I’ve got to say that I am totally into acts of heroism and such, but these crunchy kids went just a bit too far (and I can say that because I’m “green” and not psychotic).

Well, you be the judge. You tell me if its psychotic for students to stay in trees for 18 months. Just noble you say? OK, well then tell me if its noble for these students to hock pooh (and I’m not talking about the ‘hunny-loving’ bear) at the tree-cutters and local authorities.

If you’re a normal person, then you would agree that doing so kind of puts the movement to shame. It makes hip greensters (or is it, “Green Hipsters,”) like us look extremist, inconsiderate, dirty, mean and disgusting. The list could go on, but as a liberal college girl, I am, to put it mildly, ashamed of my demographic.

This photo was taken at the scene: (courtesy of http://evan.mcnabbs.org)

“These students just went way too far,” piped Christopher Robin at the site of the pooh.