Its easy for us to wield more sympathy for the environment over - TopicsExpress



          

Its easy for us to wield more sympathy for the environment over the economy because we associate the latter with greed and sterile graphs, and we associate the former with pristine wilderness, animals and clean air. Its consequently easy to demand an uncompromising, swift transition to renewables. This moving article puts a face to poverty-stricken Appalachia, and explains why they cant simply find a different job. We can claim were trying to do whats best for the planet, but here at home we sound like dismissive assholes. Its not an excuse to abandon our pursuit of clean power, but it is a reason to design more considerate solutions.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:14:12 +0000

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