Here are 2 uplifting items, brought to us by the Inconvenient Truthers .

The first is the Iceberg Candle.



You light it and watch it melt so you can have "a constant reminder of global warming." Wow, that sounds SUPER fun. Party time! It is pretty though, I think I will get it and pretend it is not an iceberg but rather a frosting sculpture. Or a pile of lard. Then maybe I can enjoy it's lovely ambient mood lighting effects without the pervasive nagging sense that every single thing I do or eat or buy is hastening the destruction of our planet.


The second is the Match Tree.



"As users break “branches” off of the geometric tree to use as matches, the tree looks smaller and more broken, until nothing is left but a two-dimensional stump. Like other conceptual products that cause us to question consumption, such as “Nothing”, it's unfortunate that this design uses wood and actually participates in the waste that it symbolizes."

So, they are complaining that even this consumption-questioning product is consuming of resources. This is why getting people to care about the environment is so hard. Because you can't even make conceptual anti-consumption art without getting ripped a new one for making it out of something. I was going to make a conceptual product out of air and the sound of my own voice, but I'm sure there is something about the minute particles in my mouth I emit while speaking that will harm the environment in some way. Since that's out, I guess I'll just stay home and burn some coal while wearing a baby seal fur coat and eating a snowy owl steak, like I do every day.