Personally, I would like to leave my carbon footprint on Al Gore's backside...
As a United Methodist, I believe that it is my obligation to be a good steward of the environment. Wesleyan social principles (as I oversimplify them) indicate that I need to leave as little mess as possible, and to make wise choices about what I use. Therefore, I try to conserve and recycle as I can, and not waste resources. Of course, social principles aside, growing up in a household where LIncoln cried out constantly from penny-pinchings, I learned to be careful about this sort of thing. We reused and reworked whatever we could to save money....and, oddly enough, the environment was not our main concern.
I agree that the greatest impact of the whole thing is not so much environmental, as it is political. The technology exists to reduce oil usage, but the "government conspiracy" just does not make the progression of alternate methods profitable.
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It's a conspiracy, man
Date: 2008-04-09 12:45 am (UTC)As a United Methodist, I believe that it is my obligation to be a good steward of the environment. Wesleyan social principles (as I oversimplify them) indicate that I need to leave as little mess as possible, and to make wise choices about what I use. Therefore, I try to conserve and recycle as I can, and not waste resources. Of course, social principles aside, growing up in a household where LIncoln cried out constantly from penny-pinchings, I learned to be careful about this sort of thing. We reused and reworked whatever we could to save money....and, oddly enough, the environment was not our main concern.
I agree that the greatest impact of the whole thing is not so much environmental, as it is political. The technology exists to reduce oil usage, but the "government conspiracy" just does not make the progression of alternate methods profitable.