Contradictions and Cognitive Dissonance

How can people in the Rocky Mountains eat healthy, promote the wilderness and the natural environment, and then drive SUVs? I cannot comprehend this. The citizens of Boulder, CO when not cursing at tourists mentioning the Ramseys or complaining about college students, try to prevent their children from being vaccinated with impure chemicals. Meanwhile, they drive their Hummers and Excursions and make the very space they live impure. It makes no sense. But I feel they are a microcosm of America. Most people enjoy nature and parks, but they think nothing of what they are doing to destroy that. The United States is one of the largest four countries in the world, full of nearly every landscape, but year after year we destroy what we have. Whether it's mercury in our fish, acid rain, overwhelming smog (and its effects, such as poisoned children, asthma, and perhaps even autism), the problems abound. But we are more interested in building new highways than making the infastructure more environmentally sound. Spawl--with its lack of consideration for the future--is American way.