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I find Earth Day to do nothing but aggravate the problem of irresponsible attitudes toward the environment. This hippie stuff in the cartoon is right on about it not doing any good to change others' actions and I think the day, more often than not, just allows people with the wrong attitude to feel better about themselves because they recycled their Starbucks cup today. Tomorrow, it will be the same shit from those people. Of course I appreciate that there are some people with a healthier attitude, but I don't think having an official Earth Day really does much for them.
The sweeping attitudes are not going to change until people realize that both the degradation of the environment AND continued population growth need to be taken into account pretty much all the time. Since I don't think people in the U.S. are going to support the idea of a child-bearing limit like they have in China anytime soon, I think it's pretty inevitable that the attitude of "conservation" is going to have to change to "responsible use." Anybody who doesn't put on both an economist's hat and an environmental scientist's hat when talking about politics and the environment is not taking the right view.
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