Monty Hill

I believe most of the environmental threat comes from providing electrical power. Electrical power used to produce and run computers. Our email chat expands our carbon footprint larger than a bit of old dinosaur bones. A political discussion of it's use is another subject.

Many of these rituals to absolve guilt of our environmental destruction are essential as effective as saying a few hail mary's

Actually I believe they are damaging as they create complacency when we have not really made any progress.

From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On Behalf Of Erik Voldengen
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:56 AM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Enviro-Friendly home shop Part II

Since I started using EVerLube two years ago, I know how much oil I've actually used, and thereby introduced into the environment via discarded rags, etc. It's MAYBE 1/2 quart. Maybe. That's over two years, servicing about four bikes. That makes my oil waste per bike to be about 1/16th of a quart per year, or four tablespoons. It's probably less than that. I think the Earth has much bigger problems.

-Erik