Ecocentricity Blog: Location, Location, Location

May 9, 2017 10:30 AM ET
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Ecocentricity Blog: Location, Location, Location

Speed bump - good on a residential street; bad on a highway. Scalpel – good in a hospital; bad in a cookie jar. Golf ball – good on the green; bad ricocheting off a tree and thumping you squarely in your thigh (yep, I’ve done that).

It turns out that something’s location can make a big difference.

Which brings me to carbon. The element, in and of itself, is neither good nor bad. Actually, if you had to assign a value to it, I would argue for “good” given that carbon is the building block for all life.

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