raylopez99 wrote:

You people are stupid. I have science degrees, doctorates, and became
a millionaire before age 30, and now run my own business.

If your ambition has truly made you a millionaire, fine, but it doesn't
prove the correctness of your positions on the environment. There are a
lot of rich a-holes in the world who step on toes and abuse the land.
I'm particularly tired of the real estate industry and mansions built
with funds from selling other mansions (net effect is more paved land).

You measure success in terms of money, but the money-less, ego-less
world existed much longer than our modern cash 'n' grab experiment. If
you want to understand environmentalism you need to put things in their
full context. The comforts you see around you today are largely built
from oil and impermanent.

What have you done R (Ridiculous) Lander? At least Roger is
successful, and for that I admire him.

I work as a field repair tech and try to contribute as little as
possible to consumerism. That's my measure of success. When you look at
the net impact of the human race it's hard to support our "progress"
unless you've decided that nature doesn't matter (big mistake). Much of
our so-called wealth exists in credit notes and one-time resource
grabs. Man is the only animal that uses (non-solar) external energy and
requires so much living space and food acreage. I wouldn't gloat about
increasing the size of this mess for the sake of personal profits.

R. Lander