Eco-running: is it really the way forward?
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Eco-running is the simple practice of picking up garbage while you run. It’s all the craze among earth-happy running bloggers, but not Laura Moncur of Starling Fitness:
You don’t need to have a sustainable lifestyle, leave a lighter footstep or even care one wit about the environment. Seriously, picking up garbage on my daily walk outside was something that I did for ME. ME and ME alone! I was selfishly picking up the things that made my neighborhood look ugly because I wanted it to look pretty. Sure, I can’t repaint the purple house down the street, but I CAN pick up the soda cans and fast food wrappers on my walk.
Like Laura, I tend to be a bit cynical about labels. Why does there need to be a label attached to something we should be doing anyway? Then again, I can think of a few appropriate labels for the jerks I see throwing chicken bones and hamburger wrappers all over the streets of London like its their own personal garbage can. But they needn’t worry about saving the environment; the eco-runners will pick up after them.
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March 18th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
How dare anyone diminish the importance of seeking to incite positive grassroots organizing! This is NOT something most people do. Why? Probably b/c people like yourselves who only think about themselves are for whatever reason unwilling to share their ideas with the rest of the world. I have a label for both of you: snotty, stuck-up post-structual intelectual elietists! Get off your high horse and maybe you can excite people about making a positive choice too!
March 18th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Matt,
now, who’s on a high horse?
Questioning is not diminishing. We shall always dare to question. If the eco-running idea is a good one then it will need to stand up to people thinking about it and questioning it openly. That’s what we try to do at this blog. We don’t make lazy ad hominem attacks.
Take care,
-Tim
March 18th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Matt,
for my own edification, what is a post-structural intellectual elitist?
Thanks,
-Tim