Polar Bear Homicide

I was dutifully sorting the mail at my temp job, when a catalogue fell open to reveal this* little item. My first reaction, naturally, was to think: "Holy Hell! Some bored little kid from the mountains of Virginia fed his pet goat a whole ream of paper and made an art project out of the byproduct!"

And then I paused, took a deep breath and considered the implications beyond the visual heresy being perpetrated. How many of these things will end up in landfills? How much gasoline was consumed to make it? To ship it? How many polar bears will drown so that people can experience the "warm spice scent" on a "cold winter night" or "romantic evening"?!

Sorry for the self-righteous and oh-so-Oberlin rant, but there is zip, zero, zilch reason for this thing to exist. And no, I don't claim to really know anything about the environment, but a 5 year old growing up in this day in age could tell you that this thing will only make matters worse.

*I would have just include the picture, but when I tried to save it, the website informed me that, for god only knows what reason, it has been trademarked, or whatever. Meaning that they actually care about this thing.