Certainly, someone can feel I am implying that by taking the steps I described that they will be free from complicity in what is happening with the environment. I believe that if someone feels this way they will soon drop this way of thinking because once they are on the environmental path, they will begin to understand that is just the tip of the iceberg. I have a sister who refused to recycle at all because she felt like she couldn’t do more than that or keep up with it. I suggested to her to try just recycling her aluminum products. She just drinks a pop a day at her job and the company provides a recycle bin. After a few months of doing just this she felt confident enough to start recycling plastic bottles at home. Now after a few months she’s starting on recycling her magazines and has started reducing her electrical use. She is on the path, you see?

I understand most people in the world have different life pressures that affect how much they are able to do. I think that using their different life pressures as an excuse to choose to do less than I am able, would be a cop-out for me. If I choose to do less when I can do more, I am just making their life pressures worse. I feel that by doing more I am not only helping myself but helping everybody else too.

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