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Persons A-H drive cars, fly often on aircraft, eat too much, own a big houses full of stuff and fill the garbage can each week, water enormous lawns, and feel overpopulation is causing environmental disaster. They write checks to the Sierra Club and post to Salon. They buy an expensive VW diesel and feel good about filling it full of bio-diesel fuel.
Persons I-Z ride old bicycles or overcrowded buses or walk, never fly, are rail-thin, live in tiny shacks thatched with waste plastic, pick garbage, get a few gallons of water at a public tap, and feel that overconsumption by people like Persons A-H is causing environmental disaster. They don't have checking accounts or computer connections. They go to the market and pay increased prices on basic staples like cooking oil and corn.
Maybe we can agree it's just a matter of perspective.
