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J. Harrison sez: Auto emissions can serve as my vehicle. That's hilarious! Yes, instead of spending their working on global solutions to the traffic problem in Minneapolis, all my tree-hugger friends have just been sitting around pedaling their bikes. Though folks may WANT to purchase their way out of this quagmire, doing less is truly the answer, though sexy it may not be.
The sad fact is that we have removed ourself from the larger natural world, yet are fully dependent on it not falling to pieces under our watch. In a larger sense it is simply an extension of the self-preservation skills that got us to this point... but now armed with more information about the consequenses of our actions. To try to derail this is (for whatever personal reasons the writer obviously harbors) is darwinism in action.
These posts are great! Salon... can we have more pointless articles by right-wing nut jobs?!??