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| Yes | | 32 | 47.06% |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California
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Friends: 8 | I would consider myself a tree hugger. |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004
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Friends: 0 | log it, burn it and pave it. The lumber industry pays most of my wages. I do recycle and try to minimise my impact but I'm not an enviromentalist. |
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Friends: 23 | I go back and forth. I mean, I get pissed when I see someone throw paper in the trash bin right next to the recycling bin. Same with aluminum and other recyclables. I recycle as much as I can at home and reuse whatever I can. But I wouldn't consider myself a treehugger or extreme environmentalist. The fact that driving to a hybrid meetup burned more gasoline than staying at home doesn't give me nightmares. |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: "Somewhere in Flyover Country"
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Friends: 12 | You forgot my category: "Cheap miser who sits in the dark and counts his nickels." I was raised as a "classic" Conservative, which means I ... conserve. That means I don't waste money. A lot of folks may find this hard to believe, but Environmentalists and Misers have a lot in common. I won't chain myself to a tree or hug a seal (Saw one at a zoo once, they're stinky) but I also won't waste them or throw them away, I simply refuse to give a "business" person (Con artist) easy profit at my expense. And I'm still not sure what the NeoConservative movement is about. I'm pretty sure "conservative" doesn't belong in their title.
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| Three cats, one Prius, and assorted humans Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Albuquerque, NM (SouthWest US)
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Friends: 0 | Have people been to old/ancient forests ? It is .. remarkable. Cats and trees are my favorites. |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Boston
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| 100% Committed Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Eustis, Florida
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...and eating granola too! Though I don't go through such great lengths, I ensure that recycling is a top priority in our household, conserving energy as much as humanly possible (within my budget), creating and maintaining 1 1/2 acres of lush tropical gardens, mulching every bit of yard trash, composting, supporting the City's Tree Committee, etc..... Though driving 2 hybrid cars helps, it's not good enough to me and we will go EV when these vehicles are mass produced and affordable. my .02
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| Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it? Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Denver, CO
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Friends: 6 | Might vote would be for "kinda", but I voted no. I, too, am a "classic" conservative (was that a comma splice?). I definitely consider myself an environmentalist as well, primarily as a necessary condition for the continued improvement of humanity (I'm also a humanist). I recycle. I pick-up recyclable stuff that I see lying around. Hell, I'll take it out of the garbage if I see it in there (as long as it's not TOO nasty). I don't think that I'm a tree-hugger though. My political leanings and outlook don't really fit that mold. BTW, the neoconservative could probably more aptly be termed neofacist. It's a benign facism (at least for now) but it's still facism.
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