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Saturday, January 02, 2010

Eco Mind



As a child the Dr. Suess story The Lorax was compulsory reading in my family. Tree huggers each and every one of em. Including me. I brought The Lorax for my own kids. This afternoon I spent 5 hours watching the entire series of Whale Wars:



Things have changed somewhat in the 30+ years since I read The Lorax, with how environmental causes are dealt with in the mainstream media. However, I don't think the situation has changed so much when it comes to destruction of habitat and use of resources. Whenever we are able to, we as a species continue to hack our way to total consumption of everything we can get our greedy little hands on. Because 'everyone needs a thneed'.....

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