on 1/19/11 8:04 AM, JoelMatthews at joelmatth...@mac.com wrote: >> Cycling has many uses and is wonderful .. but riding just for green reasons >> is or would be weak for me. I ride because I like riding. > > I got rid of my car for green reasons. I certainly enjoy riding my > bike.
And I didn't really read anything in the article that said those were mutually exclusive. The main point seemed to be that the people who would adopt cycling because of green-ness alone are more of an outlier. Getting people to act on goals which potentially play out over generations is not easy. It's not the "wiring" we've demonstrated, historically. Monday was the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" farewell address speech, the bulk of which is way OT, but there's always been a part of that I've kept written down: "Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow." I quote that here to recognize that we still have that challenge before us. An adversarial relationship to those who are not in agreement with us, or acting the way we feel they should, does little to move things toward the greater good. It's always about the ride. About exuding the spirit of why we ride. That is what we share implicitly and overtly when we show up at work or the store astride a bicycle. You never know who it will affect or how. - J -- Jim Edgar cyclofi...@earthlink.net Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
