re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We are also dealing with a mentality that measures wealth and prosperity in terms of how much we consume and how many resources we use, not how well or effectively we use them.

And of course “environmental whackos” are people who want us all to live in lean-tos and wipe our asses with leaves, not people who want to abandon obsolete, wasteful and polluting technology in favor of new technological innovations.

I abandoned my polluting gasoline-powered lawn mower (well, to be fair, it failed and repair would be too costly) for a basket lawnmower and a scythe. (I can mow my lawn just as fast.)

Not all environmentalism is about “living in lean-tos” as folk like Scott Pruitt would have everyone believe.