Cradle to Cradle

"Design a system of industry that will:

-Release fewer pounds of toxic wastes into the air, soil, and water every year
-Measure prosperity by less activity

-Meet the stipulations of thousands of complex regulations to keep people and natural systems from being poisoned too quickly

-Produce fewer materials that are so dangerous that they will require generations to maintain constant vigilance while living in terror

-Result in smaller amounts of waste

-Put smaller amounts of valuable materials in holes all over the planet, where they can never be retrieved." p 62

"The marriage between vision, values, and policy has proved elusive for environmentalists. Most environmental leaders, even the most vision-oriented, are struggling to articulate proposals that have coherence. This is a crisis because environmentalism will never be able to muster the strength it needs to deal with the global warming problem as long as it is seen as a “special interest.” And it will continue to be seen as a special interest as long as it narrowly identifies the problem as “environmental” and the solutions as technical."(from The Death of Environmentalism)

Here are two quotes I collected from the texts that present the Global Warming topic very differently. I can't decide whats more important and useful with my time--to understand the politics or the science. Though somehow I feel powerless to fix the problems we are presented, unless I become more informed. What's most effective, to be an informed artist or citizen?

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