[Buddha-l] Big is beautiful (was: Review of a review)

[Richard Hayes]

On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Franz Metcalf wrote:

> Ah, you cut to the quick! I am, indeed, gluttonous and acquisitive.  
> For example, I have--through some mysterious karma--come to own four  
> cars. Four! How's that for being distinctively American?

I'm almost as bad as you are, Franz. I own three bicycles. Three!

> My carbon footprint is BIG.

Carbon footprints are so passé. How's your water footprint? If you eat meat, drink coffee, use paper, use plastics or put petroleum in any of your four cars, your water footprint will be big enough to entitle you to say in America. They might even let you live in Phoenix, if you can produce papers proving to the Arizona authorities that there have been no Mexicans or Arabs in your ancestry for the past seven generations.

http://www.waterfootprint.org/ 

still wet behind the ears,
Richard