Spurred by a piece of conversation from my favorite TV show the other night, I've come to a conclusion. It's not like "half the people are against the environment" as a character suggested, rather, it's that roughly half the people chose money OVER the environment. If economies could grow without having environmental constraints and if individuals could prosper and save time by being more envirnmentally friendly, EVERYONE would be FOR the environment.
Unfortunately, those situations seem mutually exclusive for the time being. I'm thinking that most people, when given the choice (or, probably more accurately, when subconciously making decisions without any recognition of the fact that they are, in fact, making a choice between financial gain and environmental responsibility), are FOR money and AGAINST the environment.
It's not that people are really AGAINST the environment. It's just that they are AGAINST the environment costing money (be it in expenses, time or opportunity costs).
Posted by languorous at October 26, 2005 10:18 PMBut Tom, what about the percentage of people that actually have utmost disdain for the environment regardless of financial implications?!?
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Posted by: Robb at October 27, 2005 10:22 AMThat's messed up.
Posted by: languorous at October 27, 2005 09:18 PM