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Old 06-28-2005, 11:14 AM   #6
Undertoad
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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There are so many other sides to this that it becomes one of those multi-sided dies favored by fantasy gamers.

For example, how many planets do you produce? During my most productive time so far, I developed software for telecommunications, answered 1000 tech support questions (and chose the most difficult ones to work on), automated a small grocery store chain, helped develop an early internet provider, worked on a website that supported enabling the elderly to learn the net, built the foundation for an online record label, and much more. I think I may have produced enough for 100 planets or more per year in my most productive time so far. And future production may even be more than that, you never know.

And then, there's important differences in HOW you consume. For example, it is less wasteful of the earth to buy factory-farmed chickens than free-range. It takes less land to generate non-organic, genetically-engineered foods than it does organic. Are you making the right choices for the sake of the planet?

Do you have a pet? Waste

Put expensive synthetic oil in your car instead of fossil oil? Hmm, I'm not sure of the answer to that one.
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