There are things that we may never fix …
Like the way it always rains after you wash your car, or how when you’re in the shower and the phone rings it always stops right when you get to it dripping wet.
Those are a couple of ridiculous "truisms" and you know what… there are lots them around the issues concerning the environment … like individual actions mean nothing or that all of the world’s carefully separated paper and such are just dumped together in a world wide recycling conspiracy.
I suppose that if you wanted to you could believe almost anything but here’s something that is true…
If you use less… you create less waste. It sounds simple but when you think about how long we have been living the way we do it might just take a whole lot of work to turn it around… lucky for us we live in an enlightened time where we work hard to solve a problem as a team and we don’t close the shop till the job is done, so really… what is the big deal about the environment?
Really… Use Less… Make less waste!
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Its pretty obvious when you put it so simply – use less, create less waste. I don’t understand why some people suggest that individual action doesn’t count – it does.
‘use less…make less waste’ this is so simple, yet incredibly powerful.
We live in a time where the modern religion for many people is to consume wildly. The penny hasn’t dropped that when you throw away something it doesn’t just disappear. It goes somewhere…into landfill.
Hi Joe,
Great post. I agree we should use less.
We might also take a page out of the book of our grandparents who took pride in their ability to fix and re-use things, instead of tossing them out at the first wrinkle!
My husband is far from being a handy man (sorry love, but I AM still waiting for you to fix the bath tap) but he is always keen to take something apart to see if he can fix it…
At least he tries
S.