A token green effort.

• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

I appreciated Jason Mark's article, "Beyond the Green Niche," in the February issue, but feel there is another important angle to the issue of local sustainability. As national security has lately become the main impetus (or excuse) for any and all government action, it would seem logical that local access to energy and food should be made a priority. Whether the disruption of power or transportation to deliver our food supply from thousands of miles away were caused by a terrorist act, severe weather, or infrastructure failure, our actual national security would be greatly enhanced if communities had local access to those basic necessities. The immediate isolation we would experience in the face of most any kind of disaster would be greatly mitigated by the ability to locally provide energy and food.

Cynthia McCulloh

Dillon, Montana

In any of the bazillion articles I have now read about the green economy, there is no mention about how profoundly ecologically ignorant Americans are.

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