Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> >Why is it so difficult to understand that the US sprawled life style is
> >extremely wasteful and unsustainable?
>
> Because once understood it would demand all kinds of big changes that
> people would rather not think about. Therefore, better not to think
> about it.
>
Rachel Scott in Muscle And Blood tells of a town (I think in Idaho) which depended for its livelihood on a silver mine. The silver was heavily intermixed with lead, and there was so much lead in the air that some townspeople (even many who did not work in the mine) had blue lines in their teeth. Everyone was more or less ignoring the danger. If what allows you to live is killing you, and there does not seem to be an alternative, it makes sense to ignore it.
Carrol