September 11, 2008
You care for the environment. You try to use your car less, and you buy your food from the local farmers’ market. You keep your ecological footprint under control, and become vegetarian. You regard yourself as a progressive, leftist.
You read lots of newspapers, and the internet. Suddenly, you discover that GMOs and nuclear energy are good for the atmosphere, and your new Toyota Prius is not as sustainable as you thought. Perhaps, those biofuels are not so bio, and George W. Bush starts his war (yet another one) against global warming, while the best ecocities look like gated communities in the Emirates, or in China.
That’s too much. It is clear that something, somewhere, went terribly wrong. You need to take a break, and start to re-think the whole thing from the beginning.
Stay tuned. Sustainability Reloaded is here to help you.