Columnist's ideals shallow, hypocritical

Editor:

Every Monday, I see Jessie Fillerup's mug on the Perspective page and I think, "Okay, maybe this week she'll have something substantive to say." I was disappointed yet again.

Jessie, do you realize where your sustenance comes from? Your house is warm from the oil of your caribou killers. Your home stands on girders of the trees of your clear-cutters. Everything you have was extracted from the environment at a cost. How in the hell do you sleep at night knowing you, the consumer, are the bread and butter of those exploiters you so hate? You shallow little hypocrite.

Your article made one point in spite of your best efforts to be pointless: the product of an environment-conscious-laden primary education (you know, coloring rain forest pictures on paper produced from them) produces people like you, Jessie; people who don't have the capacity to address the real and complicated issues of balancing environmental use with consumer need; people who hate the same industrialists who clothe and feed them; people, like you, who have absolutely nothing to offer but a loud voice and insubstantial good intentions.

Nick J. Rivette

Chemical Engineering Graduate Student

Read Next Article