When I was in college George W. Bush was elected in a race hotly contested in Florida, my home state. Like a lot of brainwashed intellectuals, I was convinced it spelled disaster for our environment.

I remember going to a talk on our campus about sustainable living or something of that nature. In the Q and A session I asked, "with this recent election, how do you overcome the feeling of impending doom?" I will never forget the speaker's joking reply, "well, there's counseling for that sort of thing..." He went on to talk about practical strategies for living within our means at a local level. It was such a splash of cold reality on my hot-headed youthful idealism. I would say that tempered my belief that I knew best what the world needed, from that day forward.

I wish more college students had access to such wisdom today.

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