> 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.

Yeah, I remember that from my High School. Not so much from the teachers, but from my fellow students, because environmentalism was the "in" thing then, basically. Fudge the whales, I say. What have they done for me lately?