I’d like to respond to one of your
letter-writers, D.D. Sparks, in the Jan. 24, 2005, issue. Sparks
hopes “that those who become so passionate about the environment
realize there are other people in the world besides themselves.”
I would have thought that any reader of High
Country News would already know this fact, but it seems
to have gotten past Sparks. So I’ll try to state it simply:
The environment that some of us are so passionate about amounts to
nothing more than the air we breathe, the water we drink and the
land upon which our food is raised. I don’t think the world
“revolves around me,” but I do think it revolves around these
precious elements upon which all life on this planet depends.
Vicki Shaw
Crested Butte,
Colorado
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The environment is about all of us.
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