re: #27 Obdicut

I’m willing to give up a lot of things: the enormous amount of packaging that comes with nearly every product I buy, non-local foods, new clothes, traveling home for Christmas, my own car.

I’m willing do do without the needless packaging.

The rest you can pry out of my cold, dead hands. Same goes for air conditioning in a hot and humid hell like Baltimore.

When Al Gore gives up his lifestyle for mine, maybe I’ll think about giving up mine for yours. If I can afford it, for, as you so truly note, it’s only the rich who can buy politically-ecologically correct products all the time.

And by the way, if we all ate nothing but local stuff, a lot of us would die of scurvy. No citrus groves where I live. Not to mention that without global trade in foodstuffs of all kinds, the economy would collapse.

I don’t want to live in one of Ted Kaczynski’s “small groups” and subsist on roots and tubers, not even to save the bloody old planet. The bloody old planet will have to save itself without my help.

Unless, of course, you can get the eco-police to come and make me toe the line.