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Why Bother?
A NYTimes essay by Michael Pollan that asks why, amidst so much conflicting information, we should bother changing our habits to become more enivornmentally-friendly, especially when the problem is so large and individual changes make a marginal at best difference. I really liked his argument on why those changes are worth making, but like I said on the pollaneque comm, I hated the way it was framed, setting up the socially-responsible US citizen against his evil Chinese twin counterpart who's busy buying fuel-inefficient cars, when the evil Chinese twin leaves half the carbon footprint that the average US citizen does. Way to deny national guilt right there.

how we're wrecking our feet with every step we take
A NY Magazine article on why shoes are bad for our feet that I found eye-opening.

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... evil ... Chinese ... twin ...

>.>;;;;;;;;

I hope his evil Chinese twin kicks his ass with some national kung fu.

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... evil ... Chinese ... twin ...

Isn't it awful? I'm not sure if the fact that I totally agree with the message of the article makes it better or worse. I'm leaning towards worse right now, because if I didn't agree with the message, and most of the other things Pollan says about eating healthy, I could easily dismiss him as not worth my time.


I hope his evil Chinese twin kicks his ass with some national kung fu.

Can so root for that. XD

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re: second article: ...well. that certainly makes me feel better about going barefoot as often as i can.

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Yeah, me too. And, after reading the article, I've become so much more aware of the way I walk, too, something I never bothered to think about before.