Reply #4: a lot because i travel [View All]

i'm not going to say how much and it's not going to change, i'm not going to give up my one life so 10 more chinese people can have an automobile, nothing i do is going to change anything

it's like when bill clinton went to all that effort to balance the budget

he should have just taken the money and given it to the poor people and to fixing the infrastructure

all he did was "conserve" the money so the republicans could steal it

it's the law of the commons, conservation is a waste of time when you're not conserving anything, you're just giving the resource to someone else who IS willing to exploit it

i don't resent the rising countries like china or india, i accept that they will all want cars to drive even as i have, but i also recognize that when 2 billion chinese and indians are all driving their cars, the little bit of CO2 put into the air by the usa will seem a pleasant joke

the inconvenient truth is that we're screwed unless we develop some new technology and quickly to save our atmosphere

okay, sorry, end of depressing rant for the day



switching to flourescent lightbulbs is masturbation, yes, i have done it, but it's still masturbation, not that there's anything wrong w. masturbation but as a way to save the world it ain't


p.s. i don't mean to crap on clinton, either, he was trying to do the right thing, the honest thing w. balancing the budget, i am just pointing out that some actions are pointless because of the tragedy of the commons effect