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> Hmm. In my school, environmentalism was the word of the aeon. Everything was about how anything that might change anything was by definition bad. If anyone should for any reason perhaps suggest that there are certain sacrifices that should - or, less than that, that could safely - be made for the sake of progress or because there might be interests other than preserving the environment around he was burned as a witch and had his ashes scattered to the four winds.

That's the mentality of half the town. "OK, I'm the last person that should be able to move here 'cuz change is BAD and we need to stay a small town and we can't have that golf course you're planning [so they are tying it up in the courts with virtually no chance of winning with a sane judge] but the ski resort is OK, since I like it. Hey-- you over there! Stop! You're picking a leaf off a poor, defenseless alder-- yes, I know they're weeds, but-- Wait! I need to meet the contractor-- he's clear-cutting my lot so I can put my house there. Ho, you there, little kid-- get rid of that lemonade stand-- we don't need any more businesses in this valley-- it's over-developed as it is! Sigh, my work is never done."

Yaaarg!

Chr"then there are the die-hard developmentalists-- happy mediums are happier, people"is