"Is there anyone who seriously believes that the selfishness of a few dozen million USers is the root cause of the environmental damage of Modern Society!?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Absolutely! They aren't raping the planet *just* for fun, there's profit to be made... from those "dozen million USers". (It's billions, BTW.) Furthermore, those Fortune 1000 companies are made up of individuals with leaky faucets as well, and if they own a mansion with 10 faucets, it's even more important for that group of people to keep them from leaking. According to your line of thought we should wait till crisis personally affects us before responding. Don't you think it's a little late by then, no matter who caused the problem?
Part of the problem? Or part of the solution. It's your choice.
Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at yahoo.com
---- Original Message ---- From: Jordan Hayes To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] anti-Suburban snobs, was petro-thusians
>> And creating a crisis environmentally so that everyone
>> can have an SUV is progressive?
>
> Is there anyone who seriously believes that the selfishness of a few
> dozen million USers is the root cause of the environmental damage of
> Modern Society!?
>
> There used to be a billboard in Oakland that showed a dripping
> outdoor sprinkler faucet with the tagline: Do The Earth A Good Turn
> -- as though it was us individuals who were responsible for the
> perpetual water crisis -- as opposed to the small but powerful
> agribiz contingent in California who happen to use 96% of all the
> fresh water . . .
>
> This 'personalizing of the crisis' has to stop: if the Fortune 1000
> would recycle, individuals wouldn't have to! It's so
> overwhelmingly the problem of industry that it's not even funny.
> If commercial trucks would only get from 4mpg to 10mpg everyone in
> China could own 4 SUVs and it wouldn't make a difference.
>
> Sheesh.
>
> /jordan
>
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