[Strawbale] Anti Cement Folks / an unsustainable policy

[Andrew Webb]

This isn't specifically targetted at anyone, as I can see most 
everyone's point of view on this complicated subject.  But, it amazes me 
when people, typically conservatives (an oxymoron), use the rhetoric 
that their way is practical, logical, sensible, or even 'the tough but 
necessary choice'.  What could be more practical, logical, sensible, as 
well as often being the harder thing to do, then attempting not to 
pollute the air you and your family need to breathe, the water you need 
to drink, the land that grows the food you need to eat.  It is not like 
you can just decide to breathe something other than oxygen.  Sure, you 
can buy or steal someone else's water and food if you are so inclined, 
but not endlessly.  There is nothing more practical than to aim to tread 
lightly on the earth at every possible step.  It's not easy and I am 
certainly a long way off myself, but to quote the most useful thing any 
professor ever said to me, "You have to have a Northern Star to guide 
you; it doesn't mean you will reach it."

-AW


Hank Carr wrote:
> I know...that isn't very
> romantic of me to say but I'm a practical environmentalist.