Are you a toxic asset?

[Billy Burnett]

Poll question: Are you a toxic asset?

Considering your own overall impact on the overall environment(s).

[madinmaryland]

1. Other: WTF?

[Naturyl]

2. No, although most people here are.

Sorry, but them's the facts.

The wonderful thing is that most people here do recognize the problem and are at least making efforts to minimize their toxicity.

You can't say that for the right-wing.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. toxic, yes... asset, no

[Demeter]

4. By Whose Standard?

This is a pointless question. Nothing is defined, neither "toxic" not "asset".

A "toxic asset" in finance is no asset at all; it is a fraudulent document of little or no value and no use to anyone once it has been sold to a "sucker".

[Billy Burnett]

5. By the standard of your own perceived impact on the environment. eom

:hi:

[Demeter]

6. Which part of the environment? Local, Global, Universal?

the only part of the environment that we as a species affect is the part that keeps us alive. Most of the large mammals are gone--the rest of life will continue in our absence or presence.

as the slogan goes: the earth doesn't care if you drive a Prius. the earth isn't going to evaporate, explode, or otherwise cease to exist, short of nukes into the core of the planet.

What is endangered is the complex economic/social/political/web of life that sustains the human population. To think that one person can make or break it is to suffer from grandiosity.