Always do the right thing (because 99 is not 100) Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust -- Feb. 15, 2011

Da Mayor: Always do the right thing.
Mookie: That's it?
Da Mayor: That's it.
Mookie: I got it. I'm gone.

If every American were to make every single lifestyle change suggested in the film, An Inconvenient Truth, it would only result in a 21 percent decrease in carbon emissions. In fact, while the average human produces 2,500 pounds of waste per year, the average per capita waste output is 26 tons… because 97 percent of waste is produced by agriculture and industry.

Individual lifestyle changes won't do anything to "save the planet," so why bother?

To help answer that question, I defer to Valter, one of the catadores (pickers of recyclable waste in Brazil) featured in the excellent documentary, Waste Land. "One single can is of great importance," Valter explained, when asked about the value of recycling, "because 99 is not 100."

My translation: Never lose sight of the big picture but always do the right thing.

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1. bookmarked...thanks for this