The Biocrat
“The only thing we can really do about species decline is to reduce consumption of resources on an individual basis,” he said. “It’s choices that society makes that we are trying to compensate for. Recycling has increased. In general we’re driving cars that get better mileage than 30 years ago. But we’re building huge houses, we’re still using a lot of water, at least in this culture. It may well be that in the future the Julia Butterflies of the world will be scaling smokestacks in China. I mean, I guess we all pick battles that are of the scale we can handle personally. But the real need is to carry out our conservation ethic in a much broader scale than just a redwood grove.”
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Comment / By Thirdeye / March 19, 8:46 a.m.
Dietrich puts it in a nutshell pretty well. The more you know about environmental topics, the more you see that eco-groovy is a bunch of shallow nonsense.