You know, you guys who whine about how much good turning your lights off for an hour will do, or how much everybody else is a 'do gooder' or 'greenie' or whatever....go read something and learn about what you're talking about.
Not sure to whom you are referring...but 'read something' is a little vague.
I learned about environmental sustainability way back when studying Architecture....that was just this side of the Hippy generation, making love not war and protesting Vietnam [or avoiding conscription]....learned ALL about Dioxins....DDT.... and why the fuck we thought it was clever to spray it/them all over IndoChina....and since then knew one particular Aussie who was shat on by USAF dumping Agent Orange...fuckers didn't know the SAS was down there too...not just old women and children. He died this Millenium....sometimes it takes time.
We are guaranteed to screw our environment simply because it is cheaper to do so.
That WILL NOT change.
Not until those who polute, etc are summarily shot.
I spent my first five years on the planet about 100 miles downwind of Maralinga. Look it up.
How do I do my bit? I live on a property that is 192 square meters .... substantially smaller than what goes for 'urban sprawl' - the quarter acre block. I have no lawn...thus no watering. All planting is Australian natives...next to no watering. My car has not been washed in about 3 years. [it's prohibited now]. I'm within a half hour [or so] walk to the CBD ... with 3 different modes of public transport in easy reach [ 5 miutes]. Water consumption is less than half the 'average' of a two person household.
Most [NOT ALL] lights are fluorescent....their manufacturing energy use is more than an incandescent and has chemical issues. NOT all because they still do not work with dimmers....[another conservation method]...and yet incands are going to be legislated out of existence before this is solved.
Small car....1600cc ...average yearly mileage...about 3 or 4 thou. ....hardly representational of those SUV wankers....whose truck suspension [live axles] typically corrugate bitumen surfaces, use more resources to create just to get the rug-rats to pre school...and suck juice like there's no tomorrow....yet get a discounted registration [road tax] because they are not 'cars'.
Urban sprawl is still one of the biggest issues in the Western World. Everyone wants his piece of dirt...and to keep up with the Joneses that dirt must be at least as big. Service infrastructure costs shitloads...the lower the density [population] the worse it gets. And then we're back to tyranny of distance....the bloody car/commute/freeway/traffic jam/roadkill/death and injury. /cost to the community of insurances/Hospitalization/stress/suffering.
There's no need to 'read something' [even War and Peace was boring]....all you need do is engage your brain....
...and go out there and look....
