> > 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?

Yeah, by the time I got to high school, that was the case. But even before that - in grade school - we got that rabid nonsensicalism from the teachers. It was icky.