Ecoconception

Once I was trying to fix a toilet and water began to blast upward from a fitting. The building Super, who was watching me, commented, “You know the difference between a professional plumber and an amateur?”

“No,” I said, frantically searching for a towel.

“The professional makes as many mistakes as the amateur,” he said, swinging a wrench onto the main valve and closing off the fountain, “The difference is, a professional fixes them faster.”

I wonder how to translate this in terms of the environment! Do we have to wait for failure in that case? Are we going to have to cut the forest down to realize we could be doing better?