good comments all around.

I'm fine with the article, and am similarly saddened at how efficiency vs. culture is being improperly weighted by some people on both sides. But that's their right to opinions, just have to hope they understand the personal and social consequences of either extreme.

My only beef with the article is the title. I know that longevity=greener. I know the author was moving towards making that point. He didn't really finish explaining "why," and he certainly didn't help himself by supplanting his personal life-choices in the place of that explanation.

Then again, this is an article in "Gearbox," so he can talk life-choices all day if he wants. Which brings me back to my original beef: why assert something in the title that won't really be covered in the article?

So here's a premise from me: Slate=Greenwasher.