You're right, Doug, and that's what's so sad about it. Most people are entirely willing to cut the nose off their own face (or their neighbour's) in order to put a quick dollar in their hands...without the least regard for what lies a little farther down the road. It's the disease of selfishness and shortsightedness.

The fools who are cutting down the Amazon are doing the same thing, regardless of whether or not they are big corporate players or just poor dirt farmers.

The only thing that can change that sort of blind drift into waste is solid moral leadership from the top...and solid legislation to back it up!

Now how can we get good leadership from the top when the leaders have (almost) all been bought out by the big financial players?

Darned if I know. I just try to govern my own life as decently and wisely as I can. I know the World will never be perfect, so I live with it as best I can.

- LH