Hi there.
My name is Ryan Britton and I am an environmentalist.
I have been subscribing to Car and Driver magazine since 1986 (when I was 14). I hate camping and tend to prefer my house over trudging through the great outdoors—it’s the air-conditioning. Honestly, I like to buy things. I like to eat steak at restaurants. I enjoy traveling and flying on jet airplanes. I love music and vinyl records . . . the more wax in my house the better. I like modern design and architecture and my Macbook Pro.
But I also like my veggies, and I like to walk to work. I like the idea that every city should have its own version of Washington D.C.’s Metrorail subway. I recycle, and whenever I get an hour to spare I like to go riding around the city on my cyclocross bike.
But much more than any of the above, I love my family and I want clean air and water. I want to see to it that the kids of the today (every last one of them) have the opportunities to grow and flourish as I have had. Therefore, I embrace change and taking steps forward towards a sustainable future. My lifestyle is changing and continues to change–however it continues to be rich and varied and hopeful.
Like I said, I’m an environmentalist.
Dear Ryan Britton,
Thanks for being a good example for other people to follow. Such exemplary behavior will become commonplace before long; but first the economic powerbrokers and their bought-and-paid-for politicians are going to have to become better educated, thanks to the discussion of good science. The leaders in my not-so-great generation of elders need to be informed about the necessity for living within limits, sharing scarce resources, making behavior changes, and appreciating the vital role Earth plays in maintaining a healthy global economy and in preserving the wellbeing of all that lives in this wondrous world God has blessed us to inhabit.
Perhaps you can assist me in discharging a longstanding, unfulfilled responsibility, one that I call a “duty to warn”.
Without success over the past several years, I have been inviting population scientists, demographers, biologists, economists and anyone else with appropriate expertise to openly comment on unexpected evidence regarding human population dynamics and the human overpopulation of Earth from Russell P. Hopfenberg and David I. Pimentel. Where, pray tell me, might I find a deeply dedicated, top-rank brother or sister in the scientific community who possesses the necessary expertise and is willing to report in a professional manner on the Hopfenberg/Pimentel research?
Thanks for considering this humble request for help. Please feel free to contact me directly with the name of a colleague or else have the scientist get in touch with me by email. I will do whatsoever is necessary to fulfill this personal obligation, one for which I am evidently unprepared and poorly equipped.
Sincerely yours,
Steve
Ryan,
I’m an environmentalist, too. I don’t raise ELF flags or climb redwoods, but I make simple lifestyle changes–shave with soap instead of shaving cream, only use one light at home at a time. I run a company that makes reusable gift wrap. The amount of disposable crap we buy is ridiculous. I’m a work in progress, I’m guilty of buying disposable crap, but I’m trying, man.
Ian Mahaney
stop using computers it waste energy!
riding bikes exspells carbon dioxid! you should pay your share of carbon use!