I am worried about all of it Lazy. I would not live near Glen Rose, the plant there was built on a fault line, something environmentalists in Texas have known since at least the early 80's. I sign all pro alternative energy petitions, and I am actively anti fracking ever since Range Resources somehow got the EPA to quit investigating the flaming water coming out of the faucet in Weatherford, TX. This is not personal or about you. I was at the EPA town hall on fracking in 2010 in downtown Fort Worth, I am the one that commented that the people hauling the highly classified, highly toxic used fracking fluid were likely going to be paid about 2 steps above minimum wage and I was worried about shortcuts and dumps in farmers fields and on ranchland.
My energy plan is all wind through Champion. I realize my electricity may not come from actual windmills but at least Champion has to buy offsets into wind energy in order to offer this plan and it is what I can do.
I buy almost no plastics or stuff made from oil, to the extent that it is humanly possible. I recycle, do not waste water, produce almost all my own fruits and vegetables organically with as much rain water as I can manage supplemented by very expensive Fort Worth water. Which is why I raise a lot of my garden on a pond. I use less water per pound of produce. I use no chemical fertilizers which come from oil, re-use contractor's trash bags until they fall apart and I drive a 1975 chevy pickup which gets almost as good a mileage as a new one AND I could maybe talk it into running on chicken manure if I needed to. I do not use my electric heat, get my firewood by running around helping people with my little electric chain saw. I raise my own chickens for eggs, fertilizer and occasionally I cook one. No hormones, no chinese processing and no chemicals. I bought some canned alaskan salmon today. I am almost afraid to handle it without a geiger counter to test, it is the only seafood I occasionally eat, whether alaskan or chilean. The chilean is loaded with more mercury (from coal combustion), the alaskan probably is carrying fukushima radiation. My doctor insists I eat some kind of fish and that I can just barely stand. Scary food.
In other words I do not just talk the talk, I walk the walk. I am not socially acceptable. I have no interest in flying to Cancun on vacation with my daughter. I could care less if it makes me not socially acceptable. It is who I am, if she wants her kid to know me, she knows where I live. And if not, I am working to leave all my grandchildren a better world.
The number one biggest problem on this planet is over population but I think rising sea levels and bigger storms are about to take care of that for us. And the lord have mercy on our souls, we brought this on ourselves. Because if no one bought that oil, and coal, and electricity, we wouldn't be tearing the earth up burning it.
