conquering my distaste for Al Gore but not for tofu

I like one animal and zero vegetables. Recycling makes me anxious because, like law school, there are so many rules to learn. How might I overcome my natural predisposition to pollute in order to be an environmentalist instead?

It's fun to have an enemy. People develop emotions about causes that don't immediately affect them when they are able to define themselves against the cause's enemy. White people supported civil rights because they got to feel superior to the South. Bush & friends spent more time drumming up evidence against France than against Saddam because nobody was going to feel a strong sense of identity over not being a mass murderer. Not wearing black, on the other hand--now there was something you really chose, assuming you believed in freedom. Finally, many low-status communities are anti-gay, such as the elderly, African-Americans, and fat people. So in contrast, straight people who support gay rights get to be the ultimate hipsters.

But who's fighting the environment? Oh right, that guy. Environmentalism isn't catching on because of several decades of Gore; it's because of a few years of Bush. As for if I'm going to join up, it'll probably require a less cartoonish villain. Someone more French and less mass-murdery.