Quote from jem:
While no one would know it by most of my posts I was once an environmental lawyer who volunteered my time.
Out of all the environmentalists I met, only one ever passed the -- I believe it and I live it test in my book.
One man who worked for save the planet type clauses actually lived as low an impact life as could be reasonably expected. I respect him immensely. He had old clothes, took the bus everywhere and when he inherited money he gave half to fund causes and half to unicef.
If you really care about the environment you need to change it one life at a time and you should start with your own.
i completely agree from a moral point of view. but hear
this argument. how much influence could that man
in his old cloth gain? be invited and listened to by the
entire political community? getting elected for high
political ranks? and if it was in your and my vital
interest that he gets heard (just assume for a moment),
wouldn't you prefer he reaches as far as possible?
actually wouldn't you get him new clothes and a
reputation that makes him representative? the
answer is an inevitable yes. though you are very
right in your criticism, but it is more critical towards
how society works today. and again you are right
when you argue that you can only change society
by starting at yourself. but in this case it might be
that we lack time ...
but there is one other point. as i understood gore it
is necessary that we change the direction of our
development but we do not have to give up everything.
i think that his message would actually be worse received
if he lived in a hut and people would feel they had to
do the same.
