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Bottoms up: Pollan on gardening
Growing your own food is fine, but governmental action is needed, and soon |
Maywa Montenegro |
21 Apr 2008 |
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| I like Michael Pollan -- really, I do -- which is why it was frustrating to see his wilted-salad-green entreaty to act on climate change in yesterday's paper: The climate-change crisis is at its very bottom a crisis of lifestyle -- of character, even. The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us (consumer spending represents 70 percent of our economy), and most of the rest of them made in ... |
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