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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
I use to live in Dallas for a year. Anyway, up in Seattle--whew. It's gets frustrating sometimes... Folks get nervous when I tell them the Texans concept of "gun control"... LOL  And I am originally from SoCal...
The betterment of the people needs to be weighed vs. that of the environment. That was difficult to do in Dallas when I was there--because the concept of recycling was absent at best. It may have to do with how much land you all have vs. a smaller state (like Washington)--resources are precious where we are. |
Washington isn't that small of a state. It's in the middle in terms of area. But when you say that our resources are "precious" I really think it's more accurate to say that we treat our resources more preciously. We're crazy recyclers here (all of my life we had curbside recycling, way before it was elsewhere), and (seriously) half of our state's area is covered in pine trees...many people probably don't know that. But you know what? We're still good at using our natural resources. Did you know that Washington state gets less than 10% of our power from coal? We get almost all of our electricity from WATER. Grand Coulee Dam is the biggest power plant in the country, plus we have a bunch of other dams throughout the state. We have so much power generated from our natural resources (thanks to cooperation with Canada, Oregon and Idaho also) that we still have enough left over to sell to California. So I'm pretty happy with how we're treating our natural resources up here.