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Re: E-M:/ global warming/population
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Enviro-Mich message from "Chuck Cubbage" <charles.cubbage@comcast.net>
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Anna,
Whoa!! If I understand your comment right you are saying that collectively
we can make differences, but I question the phrase "there isn't anything we
can do as individuals"
William is right to point out the difficulties in dealing with global
forces, but dead wrong in assuming that nothing we do as individuals makes a
difference. Anyone remember the bit about the beachwalker who was tossing
starfish back into the sea being questioned about why when so many would die
anyway on the vast beach?
There is a difference between being all alone, the only one, etc., and being
an individual who joins others to have an impact. But it all starts with
individuals making choices. Edie is one heck of a lot closer to being right
than those who cry her activities don't make a difference (sounds like the
"sky is falling" mentality at work to me). Edie, is making a difference not
in just her life, but by her example. We all do, so decide what sort of
message you want to leave by how you live.
Sort of reminds me of JFK's quote, "Ask not....".
Regards,
Chuck
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From: "Anna Dorothy Graham" <grahama9@msu.edu>
To: <enviro-mich@great-lakes.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:03 PM
Subject: E-M:/ global warming/population
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Enviro-Mich message from "Anna Dorothy Graham" <grahama9@msu.edu>
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I absolutely agree with William Tobler that there isn't any point in our
trying to combat global warming as individuals if the sole objective is to
bring as many human beings into the world as possible and keep them
marginally alive. We have to do it for all the species on earth -- which
is how I frame my own efforts to myself.
Anna
Anna Kirkwood Graham, J.D., Ph.D.
"There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave and severe; it
is always in the right, and the faults and errors fall to our share."
-- Goethe
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