If you're poor, you often have to buy a $500 rattletrap of a car that would probably embarass an Aircare inspector if you lived in Vancouver, whereas Mr. CEO of a modestly-sized corporation can afford to buy a brand-new Chrysler M300 that probably pollutes 10 times less even though it's a bigger and more powerful car than Mr. Poor's 1979 Mercury Bobcat.

However, Mr. CEO probably wastes a shitload more electricity and natural gas on his palatial home in the west side of Vancouver, whereas Mr. Poor pays $30 a month in Hydro living in an apartment that's been around since the 1960s and has decent insulation in it.

Sure, it's "easier" to drive a car than to walk or ride a bike, but, driving a car when it's not absolutely needed is totally wasteful and puts poison into the air. Period. I choose to not own a car in the city. We could afford it. Plenty of people who drive can't afford it, they lease their vehicles and are in debt.

It's "easier" to throw something in a garbage can to have it taken away. But, the thinking person says, "take it away to WHERE?" It's not being shot at the sun, it's going into the very Earth that we depend upon for survival and that provides millions of other animals with life. To bury my yogurt containers and disposable diapers into my planet is just wrong. Not needed.

It's getting more affordable to buy organic. The more people buy it, the cheaper it will be to buy. Buying organic food is one of the best things one can do for the Earth. It promotes sustainable agriculture and doesn't dump more poisions into the soil or spray them into the air.

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I'll, uh . . . shut up now.

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but i also think that education, mass public as well as what is taught in schools is vitally important. i often think that if more people knew and really understood the consequences of their actions, they'd think twice before, ie. buying that coffee everyday in a styrofoam up, not buying junk food every night, not giving in to wanting the next best _________.