[lbo-talk] Hundreds hit the streets in Olympia, Washington

[tully]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 10:55 am, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>> You don't see a 2000 sq. ft. house for 2 people as a
>> terrible waste?
>
>A terrible waste of what?  Should I invite more people to live in my
>1954 house?  Should I have kids (you want to talk about
> environmental stress, just have some kids!) to make it impossible
> to have a home office so I'll have to get a job where I have to
> drive to work (actually, these days I typically fly to work, oops)?
>  Should the sellers have picked a larger family to sell it to?
>
>Where do these arbitrary rules come from?

There is nothing arbitrary about it.  It is and promotes excess 
consumption.  It requires more energy to heat or cool than a smaller 
place.  It ties up excess resources that larger groups could use more 
efficiently.  It required more materials to build, will be more to 
dispose of when it finally fails.  It is more time consuming and 
expensive to clean and maintain.  Its excess in all ways.  

Fly to work??  You can't avoid that?  

Isn't this general situation multiplied so many thousands of times 
across this nation why 4 percent of the world's people consume 25% of 
the world's resources?  Look at what is being done in our name around 
the world to support our gluttony.  We can stop it.  

And if us liberals won't stop it, who will?    

--tully