Can you give this thread some Love?

[FirstLight]

I reposted this because it sank and I really wanted your input too!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4181345&mesg_id=4181345


thanks!

[I Have A Dream]

1. Happy to help, and I agree.

:)

[Callie McAllie]

2. This could be such an interesting discussion

I agree we need to strive to live in a way that is sustainable. I'm not sure I agree that we need to "scale back" to do it. That is a tough sell, for starters, and I'm not sure it's really necessary. It wasn't the bigness of the financial institutions that prompted their free fall, it was the unsustainable nature of the way they were doing business. It's not the bigness of industrial farms that is so wrong, it's the unsustainable way the operate and dispose of their waste.

I do think, because of global climate change, that people, even businesses, are being a lot more responsible about how they operate, trying to reduce their carbon footprint. Maybe it's just a function of cutting costs in the face of rising oil prices, but whatever works, I'm for it.

And if we can do that, find a way to run life as we have done, but in a way that is kinder to the planet, we can continue to improve life for so many others across the globe, and make their lives more sustainable too.

I'm a dreamer, maybe, but that's my hope. Anybody remember that old commercial with all the flower children singing "I'd like to buy the world a coke, and keep it company. I'd like to hold it in my arms and something, something, something?"

:hippie:

[LWolf]

3. Put it in GDP and I will.

I generally don't respond to presidential candidate/election posts in GD, since I'd like to see discussions of issues dominating there.

Sometimes it's hard to remember which forum I'm in, lol.

Certainly sustainability" is an important concept to be focused on at this time.

I think commitment to the concept is more important than using the words to campaign on. I really don't want any candidate to co-opt the language for an issue if they don't commit to actual action to move that issue forward.

Is Obama committed to sustainability? I don't know. I don't like most of his positions on most issues, so I can't campaign for him on issues. I can advocate a vote for him on the "lesser of two evils" principle.

He's said one or two things I agree with since he got to the Senate; I'll bring those up when necessary. I haven't heard him speak about sustainability.