| Re: Dog Poo Composter
Monkey Orchid - thanks for your measured response, I do appreciate that these things need to be open for discussion.
I have to say though that there are two or three things which stop me from engaing more actively in environmental issues, one of which is my experience that there is a group of people poised to feel self righteous at the first opportunity. I don't fly anywhere and haven't for many years, I source my food fairly carefully, I mend and make do and recycle, my fuel bills are small. But, as you say, M O - we WILL make an impact, I don't actually see why we SHOULDN'T make some kind of impact - we're a part of the ecosystem too, and many of us do our best to live reasonably well.
This thread started as a discussion about how to dispose of dog s*** in a responsible way. It depresses and alienates me when people take it as an opportunity to lecture me about the impact my dogs may have on the environment, to rant about dog owners in general or to make smug comments (none of this is aimed at you M O).
Surely part of the task for environmentalism is to get as many people on board as possible. Some of the responses to this thread exemplify why environmentalists might sometimes fail to engage the rest of us.  |