Rob C.
> >improvement of the environment. To significantly improve the
> >environment and preserve what we have drastic measures are required.
> >Who is going to make those decisions?
> >
> >John
>
> We all make those decisions, that's the short answer. Or, we collectively
> agree to make those decisions--we ban the use of lead paint, ban the use
of
> leaded gasoline, mandate the installation of catalytic converters on all
new
> cars and trucks, implement wetland protections with teeth, etc. I know
> people who still feel aggrieved by catalytic converters and unleaded
> gasoline, their rights were obviously trampled, etc., etc. But I have
rights
> too--rights not to have my property dusted with lead from car exhaust and
> flaking housepaint, not to breath nitrogen dioxides and suffer the effects
> of acid rain from the nitric acid that forms from the nitrogen dioxides
> generated by internal combusion engines unnecessarily.
>
> As Americans we get a truly stupefying range of choices. Do I buy an SUV
> even if I don't live on an unpaved road, work construction or go camping
> weekly? Do I buy a cheap water heater that's inefficient in energy use, or
> spend more money on a higher efficiency model that will probably last
longer
> anyway? This can get very mundane very quickly.
>
> I know the SUV issue always pushes peoples' buttons, but I guess that's
> symptomatic of what we're talking about. We're all rightly concerned about
> our own freedom, but there are tradeoffs with the larger world that we
can't
> really complain about later.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
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