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appalling and disgusting use of chalk 4-May-2007 At 11:42:54 PM BigMike

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On 4/05/2007 dalai wrote:
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>The focus on chalk is just selective environmentalism Steph.
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"Selective environmentalism". Just googled it and only 209 hits, so hopefully this nonsense concept isn't catching on.

So. Either you drive a Humvee, through the bushes TO the cliff, bolt, chip, stuff ciggies in cracks, set fire to bushes you don't like and chop down trees that get in the way of starts, leave your rubbish lying everywhere, and drive home again chewing on a bilby sandwich (yum! no wonder they're endangered)...

orrr ... just live in a cave subsisting off pond-scooped algae and fruit that's already fallen...

Cos anywhere in between is just "selective environmentalism".

The world is not black and white. Things tend to be a slippery slope. People arguing for a chalk reduction are talking about minimising impact. An impact that may not always be necessary.

If you asked someone not to leave their plastic drink bottles at the base of a cliff, cos it was unsightly and polluting - and they responded by saying "yeah well plastic's made of oil and you drove here using oil, besides your very existence is having an impact on the planet, so by picking on me you're just practising selective environmentalism"...

... would you say "OK, you're right, you got me there" and walk on by?