Someone posted a comment on Sub's blog which may echo some of us here.
Disclaimer: I am not posting his comment out of spite. His comments are understandable and pretty valid. Nor am I posting this to say that I'm Mr. Know-It-All. I just feel the need to share it as it relates to a topic that I feel the urgency to press for.
He says: "Its quite noble of you to take such measures, but frankly, an environmentally-friendly guitarist seems like an oxymoron. Sad, but these means arent enough to offset the amount of wood used to make guitars... especially if you have a lot of them."
I have posted a reply to comment on that comment, and I wish to reiterate/paraphrase it here:
As the world population increases, the demand for certain needs will forever rise, and there will forever be an environmental compromise in order to meet that demand for needs (Eg: Demand for food will see to it that more trees are cut down to make way for plantations, animal rearing, food processing).
The problem right now is that certain measures were not put into practice to begin with, and we were greatly ignorant of the consequences of our actions until recent times.
Do we point our finger to the musician for the consequences, because of his demands for gears to make the music he does? No. He is satisfying his need as a consumer.
Can we we then blame the manufacturer for producing those gears? It was a cycle that has been ongoing for years; it is a hard one to break. In fact, to stop everything altogether would throw the world economy into chaos.
There is noone to fault in this scenario really. Neither is there any real single all-accomodating solution. But now that WE have the knowledge that every bit we do CAN make a difference if done as collective of environmentally concious, what do we do with that knowledge? If it doesn't influence us to take steps to find ways to improve it, only THEN there is someone to blame.
