Re: "You can't be a meat-eating environmentalist"
True, the US isn't doing enough, and that's a personal decision as well as a more national/public one. On the other hand, I'm very encouraged that California has made steps in phasing out incandescent bulbs. After all, they've been first before and started a more national trend- first state to go nonsmoking in public places, for instance, and look at the wave of states and cities that are already following or are set to follow. Illinois will be nonsmoking starting Jan. 1!!!! (I'm counting the days- my mom and I have outings planned to places we always wanted to go but couldn't/wouldn't because of the smoke.) It has been a very slow process, however, and continues to be. We need climate change issues to be addressed more quickly and uniformly than that.
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