The Consumeristic Green

So, does the marketing behind "being green" ever strike anyone else as funny? Even incongruent?

I just think it's interesting how easy it is to "save the environment" (according to the marketing) by buying a new green item and throwing out the old environmentally wasteful product. I'm sure many people who really care about the environment wouldn't so easily throw something away. I mean, if you really think about even the petroleum that it takes to manufacture and ship your new green item to you, and then the old item's pollution in landfills... you'd have to have a dang polluting product to make it worthwhile to throw out.

Anyway, I just think it's funny (in one of those not so funny ways).