I listened to Annie Leonard's presentation of” the story of stuff”. Working, produce and consume are three main words of our life today. Consumption is necessary, we need food, clothes to wear and technical stuff to follow the development of technology. But the way we produce work and consume need to be changed. This is something very big that we don’t like to think of, at least I don’t. We are aware of the problem but we think it’s out of our hands and close our eyes hoping someone else solves it. But the awareness is already here and that’s a big step. The next step is action and action needs to be taken by every individual.
There are always problems in the world, we can’t live in perfection. Everything we do needs to be done to keep the humanity developing. We need to be stimulated, today our stimulation to save the world from ourselves. In the 1700th century, our stimulation was the industrialism and probably in the future there will be other kind of stimulation.
I hope that the work we do today and continue to do tomorrow will help the poor people in the world to create a society that we live in today. Before I die I want to know that everything that we work for today makes difference.
Firs I will give you commendation for the wise choice of blog color! ;)
SvaraRaderaI agree with you when you say that the problem now is individual. However, I think, the biggest problem is to convince every soul that they should change their lifestyle without thinking about someone else. I don’t want to sacrifice my lifestyle if no one else does.
Nice writing.
I enjoyed reading your post. I agree with you that the overconsumption and over production in our world today is a big problem. Sadly, as you say, too many people are too scared to do anything about it.
SvaraRaderaI enjoy your thought that hopefully in the future something else will stimulate society, other than consumption.
I mostly agree with you, especially on the point of stimulation. We do need something to strive for. I do not see much change in our times: no one seeks a way to space anymore, no great discoveries either. It's like our ignorance reached the highest point, thus we start to think that we are gods. Look at the air-traffic problems of the last two weeks, we are no gods, just people.
SvaraRaderaHi,
SvaraRaderaI liked your text. Well written and it gave me something to think about! :)