The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Potemkin Dollhouse
Elizabeth Turnbell, a little, teeny-tiny, itty-bitty, weenie 24-year-old graduate student at Yale, built a little, teeny-tiny, itty-bitty, weenie house in New Haven, Conn., to limit “her impact on the environment,” Fox News reports in a story titled “Student Builds Tiny House With Big Sustainability.”
There’s just one little, teeny-tiny, itty-bitty, weenie problem:
The floor, the windows, even the ceilings were all donated by contractors and others looking to lend a hand.
“It was incredible, I couldn’t have built it by myself,” Turnbull said. “I kind of put feelers out and was like, ‘Hey, I’m building this thing, and if you have cast-off stuff I’d love to use it.’ . . .”
She uses the bathroom of a neighbor who has also allowed her to keep the micro-dwelling based in the backyard. [Read the full story here.]
So it’s totally “sustainable” except for the building materials, land and use of a bathroom, for all of which she depends on people who are living normal, environmentally unfriendly lives. She might as well move back in with her parents.
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