Alex Steffen
September 12, 2007 3:50 PM
"If our world is really looking down the barrel of environmental catastrophe, how do I live my life right now?” asked an email I got recently.
I know the standard answer: Be the change.
This motto -- shorthand for Gandhi's instruction that "We must be the change we wish to see in the world" -- has become ubiquitous. And while a sensible person will appreciate the essential wisdom behind Gandhi's words, in the context of sustainability, this shorthand has become associated as well with another idea: that the being the change is a lifestyle choice.
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