A Good Question in a NY Times Op-Ed

Michael Pollan made some interesting points about global warming in his op-ed in the New York Times yesterday. His piece is titled "Why Bother?" and it asks why we should care about fighting global warming. Pollan examines the arguments behind those such as Vice President Cheney who seem to believe that going green is a "personal virtue." Proponents of such a belief argue that any individual human makes a negligible difference even if they adapt to a more green lifestyle, and that laws and big, scary government are needed to really fix the crisis.

While I will concede this is certainly true, Pollan is absolutely correct when he subsequently points out that "it is no less accurate or hardheaded to say that laws and money cannot do enough, either; that it will also take profound changes in the way we live. Why? Because the climate-change crisis is at its very bottom a crisis of lifestyle — of character, even. The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us."

Check out the link below and tell us what you think.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/magazine/20wwln-lede-t.html?_r=2&oref=...