May
8
“Who does more for the redwoods and society anyway — the guy chained to a tree or the guy who founds the “Green Travel Redwood Tree-Hug Tour Company” and makes a million by turning redwoods into a tourist destination, a valuable resource that people will pay just to go look at? So make your contribution by getting rich. Don’t be an idealist.”
P.J. O’Rourke: Fairness, idealism and other atrocities - Los Angeles Times
(via Andrew Sullivan)