🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello. I'm new here. I'll be graduating soon and so I'm wasting my time
not studying or accumulating any life experience that will broaden my social,
political, business, environmental, human perspectives on life...

The world we live in is not the best it could be.  I don't think anyone will
argue with that.  So what do we do?  Blame, blame, blame.  The same
environment-saving people that claim that, essentially, any business is
bad and that the environment we share should be left pristine, are people who
drive cars, wear cotton, use plastics, and share in any number of human
needs and wants that would not be available without someone going out and
changing the environment to better suit mankind.  Sure, we could all save the
forests and never cut down a tree...but then have no paper, houses, and many
other things.

Then there are people who are a part of the business side who claim that
the "eco-fanatics" are infringing on their rights to do business.  While this
is true to some extent, and anyone should have the right to do business in
any way he sees fit, it is also true that in the past, gaining wealth was
more important than solving problems and that led to the disputes we have
today.

What we seem to have (at the two extremes) are 1) businesses who are faced with
the choices of reducing the stress on the environment with little or no gain
to themselves other than the "feel-good" factor or continuing on in the old
business pathways of providing some profit-generating product at the expense
of the environment, and 2) the pro-environment side who feel that any effect
that people have on the environment is bad,bad,bad.  

People are PART of the environment.  They will inherently act to change it
just as any other life will and just as the wind that blows will.  The key
is finding some balance between the inherent effect and the excessive
damage that can and has been done around the world.  Not only that, but
the effort to find the solution MUST be global, for the earth is,
well...global.  If legislation is enacted in the U.S. to reduce the
environmental effect of business, then business WILL go elsewhere.  In
addition, the resources that are remaining in this country are limited to
the extent that it would take very little pushing
to make utilizing them that much more unattractive.

Whew...flame on.
Jason