Walk the Talk: How much is enough?

May 16, 2008

Since we posted on the Roan Plateau yesterday, I got curious and hopped on YouTube. Reminder: Roan Plateau is the fight against expanded oil and gas drilling in public lands in Colorado, a conflict where hunters and sportsmen and environmentalists have taken the same side.

I thought this video was neat for a couple of reasons – trust me, you hear a LOT of folks say that when prices rise, people won’t care about saving anything in the environment, or creation, or whatever you want to call it – instead, they’ll drill or mine anywhere, just to get the resources out, to keep their lights on or their cars running, etc.

So when people (like the ones in this video) are facing scarcity, and instead of grabbing it all they start to ask themselves tough questions about what really matters to their quality of life (versus their standard of living) – how cool is that?

Enjoy the video. Happy Friday!! If you have to go to lots of graduations this weekend, hang in there.