On 3 Feb 2004 at 15:42, Melissa Reese wrote: > On Tuesday, February 03, 2004, at 1:14:35 PM PST, Steve Brown wrote: > > > Cars, trucks, and SUVs make pollution, use natural resources, > > including habitat to drive them on. They're all bad! > > Agreed. Unless we choose, as individuals, to live a completely > "hunter/gatherer/grow your own" lifestyle, the best we can do is > compromise where we can. Good plan, Melissa! The idea that all energy consumption is evil is not right. There are degrees. After all, if the trend that started in the '70s continued unabated, we'd collectively be consuming about _half_ as much energy for personal transportation today. Instead, everyone went crazy as oil prices dipped in the '80s and early '90s and we are consuming more than ever. In fact, energy consumption increased faster than any other index - inflation, economic growth, population etc. We aren't just using more collectively, we are using more per capita and vehicles are using more per vehicle-mile. If we could turn back the clock twenty five years and change the course of history, just in personal transportation, we could make a huge adjustment to pollution and all. We can take a different tack today. Some of us have been following a different tack for quite a while (when I get a message from the electric utility to cut back, I think "on what?" The changes they are asking for I made 15-20 years ago!) Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 03 2004 - 21:46:16 PST
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