[Fairview]

To be very frank I don't see the whining that other posters are complaining about. What this writer states is simply fact: even trying to be eco-friendly is impossible, for everything we do and touch requires the consumption of fossil fuels. Even if the writer ate nothing but grains grown in the US, the combines required to harvest it, the petrochemicals used to make it grow and keep insects from infesting it, and the trucks used to take it to market, demand the comsumption of fossil fuels. Where is the whine? It's true.

[Old Professer]

But of course, the only solution is for us to let Mother Nature be.

[P-40]

even trying to be eco-friendly is impossible

It isn't impossible...but neither is every action we take going to send the planet crashing into the sun or anything. So long as one recognizes that fossil fuels are consumed in varying amounts by different actions they take, it *should* follow that they will trend towards being a little more concious of waste...especially if the waste costs money.

It does crack me up to no end to walk into the home of one of my environmentalist friends and find that, outside of the fuel efficient auto, they consume fossil fuels out the wazoo.