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Originally Posted by Nephythys

no- because I firmly believe that nothing is as bad as we are told and most fear mongering is designed to change our life styles out of a desire to control- not conserve.

Originally Posted by Nephythys

We can be good stewards of our environment without fear and worry and guilt.

The Lashpair thoroughly endorse these statements.

We have, in our own little way, been green by using low-wattage lightbulbs, and have now got a Soda-machine which has eliminated the mountain of plastic bottles that we formerly produced.

Stoat says: If we worry about all the world's causes we could go crazy. It's a bottomless list. We believe the key is to avoid negligence when it's in your power to do so. Addressing a bottomless list is not.

And we've read enough to realise that if the world is headed for disaster based on "Non-Green" practices, then it's going to take MILLIONS of years for that to happen, and by that time we'll have caused instant annihilation by discovering the Higgs Bosun using the Hadron Collider and causing another big bang, after which no-one will care much for being green anyway.

See "A short history of nearly everything" by Bill Bryson for more info.