Why Bother?

For us to wait for legislation or technology to solve the problem of how we're living our lives suggests we're not really serious about changing -- something our politicians cannot fail to notice. They will not move until we do. Indeed, to look to leaders and experts, to laws and money and grand schemes, to save us from our predicament represents precisely the sort of thinking -- passive, delegated, dependent for solutions on specialists -- that helped get ... Full Story »

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Donica Mensing
4.1
by Donica Mensing - Oct. 1, 2008

Michael Pollan makes a strong moral and environmental case for individual responsibility in addressing global climate change. His recommended start: home grown food. My favorite passage: "to look to leaders and experts, to laws and money and grand schemes, to save us from our predicament represents precisely the sort of thinking — passive, delegated, dependent for solutions on specialists — that helped get us into this mess in the first place."

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