I have indeed walked the talk by choosing not to take trips - by plane and by car.  I've limited my driving to 5000 miles a year.  I'm vegetarian, which does far more for the planet than any change in driving habits though.  What are you doing, Ed?

In response to Anonymous' comment 2/1 at 17:29

 Being a vegetarian is good for the environment?  Do you think they don't use diesel in farming for the soybeans and other vegetables you eat?  How about in the trucks hauling the veggies to the Natural Gas heated Whole Foods store? 

Also, I am sure that the wildlife that previously inhabited the prairie appreciate the plowing up of their habitat so you can have some tofu. 

At least livestock graze on native rangeland that hasn't been plowed into a completely foreign habitat.

Eat a steak and kick the "Greener than thou" attitude buddy, we are all in this together.

Ed, there are many environmentalists doing just that. You need to get out more! I admire them and strive to be more like them. I hope you'll do the same!

Dave Gardner
Producer/Director
Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity
www.growthbusters.com

  Ed, how hypocritical to say you "would otherwise support pro-nature agendas." Believe me, with that mindset, you are certainly not an environmentalist. To claim progessives haven't done enough themselves may reveal your own hidden agenda - criticize those who encourage everyone to 'do enough,' that way, you won't have to even consider such sacrifices.  We ALL should do more, including conservative for whom conservation used to be a philosophical cornerstone.  Trying to demonize liberals because they speak, rather than deny, the truth about things like global warming doesn't remove your own responsibility. Rush Limbaugh may blow smoke by trying to construct a straw man from every liberal cause, but many moderate Republicans these days are seeing through that delusion.

Ed, this "anti-oil environmentalist" drives a Toyota Corolla. What gas guzzler do you use to propel yourself around?

Anonymous No. 2, what livestock are YOU eating? The steaks at any regular supermarket in this country were fattened in a feedlot on CORN grown on that land "plowed into a completely foreign habitat."