[Jewelry making - Article 01098] - Re: [Orchid] Responsible Gold

[Marianne Hunter]

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>     This, or similar uncertainties w.r.t. gemstones, and discussion
>     about the disposal of pickle etc surface fairly often on the list.
>     Its intriguing that these petty anxieties emanate from a society
>     that will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol. 

    Excuse me? Specific issues of pickle, recycling or mining aside, the
    discussion of how we as individual artists manage ourselves and our
    materials in this world are valid questions for the Orchid website,
    no matter what the leaders of our respective nations are doing! 

    I sometimes miss the discussions for a period of days or weeks, so
    I'm not sure what "petty anxieties" we're talking about here, and I
    do admit some of the threads do get rather wound up...but that's just
    because those threads don't speak to my concerns. Also, it seems to
    me that there is an unspoken understanding to keep our political and
    religious beliefs out of this jewelers/metal smiths discussion forum.
    As such, the Kyoto swipe is way out of line! It isn't a ""society
    that hasn't signed the Kyoto Protocol, but a government that
    represents a segment of a complex society. Personally, I have
    extremely strong beliefs about politics (including Kyoto) and I
    spend a lot of time, energy and money fighting for those beliefs in
    my city, my state and my country as well as in my own studio. But I
    keep my political beliefs to myself as an agreement to admission to
    the Orchid community. I don't' think we want to open this door
    here...or things could get a lot less helpful and a lot more ugly.
    (just read any "letters to the editor" page in your newspaper.) 

    Worrying about your pickle is petty? I dunno, I always thought that
    if you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
    Personally, I feel I have, through political and social action,
    earned the right to be as anxiously petty about the environment as I
    want to be, and I support anyone else's right to concern themselves
    about how their actions affect the world. To quote another adage
    "think globally, act locally" No individual citizen alone can change
    a government policy, but we all have the autonomy to consider what we
    are pouring down the drain. 

    So which is worse: petty anxieties or faulting with a cheap shot
    folks struggling to make some difference as they can? You and I agree
    on Kyoto, Larry, but this isn't the forum for that discussion. 

Marianne Hunter

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