Reply #132: What about when Sec.8 houing is torn down for a parking lot b/c they didn't want to bulldoze trees?

[Leopolds Ghost]

Parking, like a vast strip mine, is always more important than trees
OR people in this country, or even entire towns and buildings.

And trees are always more important than poor people

(but not rich people who are allowed to cut them down, even on national parkland, so long as they pay a fine.)

What is the value of plastic bags compared to the destructiveness each and every one of you have wreaked upon your landscape by building, patronizing and advocating for vast seas of asphalt in your home towns and insisting that they get built as a GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENT (driving up the cost of US made goods, incidentally?)

YOU require those parking lots to be built. All you on DU who drive and pay taxes and attend public meetings to make sure every new development in your neighborhood has "enough parking".

As if the developer should answer to the State on the issue of parking and be compelled to build more of it, making his development even uglier and less enviro-friendly. The State -- YOUR state -- considers parking an issue of public welfare more essential than affordability or trees or cost of retail goods, cost of living.

Canvas bags? Just another cost of living add-on. Try walking to the grocery store sometime.

I feel NO GUILT about using plastic bags.

See, where I come from (and most liberals I meet can't comprehend this -- I remember a thread about it here) we RECYCLE plastic bags. EVERYONE does it.