On 8/13/2010 12:23 PM, Steve Pope wrote:
> Christine > wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:27:06 +0000 (UTC),
>
>>> I understand this, but the net effect of too many people living
>>> high-resource-usage lifestyles has been pretty disastrous, and
>>> will become even more so. Hence the advocacy for high-density
>>> housing.
>
>> It would be disastrous for some of us to live like this..as we would
>> go postal. Thank you, but no. If you want to live like that, go
>> ahead, but I think I will do what works for me. There is a
>> tradeoff, and for me, I need space and greenery around me. I don't
>> care to have others dictate how people should live, or say we are
>> making bad decisions as to how we live... That may be so...but it is
>> personal choice...
>
> Well, "dictate" works both ways. Overly-high resource consumption
> directly causes about forty percent of human fatalities..
Prove it.
> so those
> who don't conserve resource use are definitely having negative
> impact on others. To me, that's about the same as "dictating".
If it isn't likely to cause your personal death then how is it your
business?
> This does not mean that everyone must live in a certain way. It
> does means public policy (housing, transportation) must reasonably
> be aimed at conserving resource use, otherwise the policies are
> harmful. For me, it means that individuals must reasonably be looking
> at their consumption, but obviously it doesn't mean everyone must make
> the same decisions on everything.
The easiest way to conserve resources would be to blow every city with a
population of more than 1 million off the face of the Earth. Would you
favor that?
>
> Steve