good neighbors
I was thinking about how people would rather argue about global climate change than change their polluting habits. How environmentalists then have to spend hours and hours lobbying the government with laws to force them to do what common sense would imply they should do. Think about it, we're asking you to pollute less. Why on earth would we even have to go further than that? We're showing you how, and providing technology, and begging sideways and forwards for help and why would you sit and argue the need on something so apparent? Less pollution is good. More pollution is bad. This simple truth was proven last century when bodies of water caught fire and the sun and stars were stolen from some skies by thick air. Why must there be an endless parade of evidence continually displaying for people to see the plain sense in it?
We hear people complaining so much about too much government and law. Nobody seems to grasp that it's caused by too much rude behaviour. When you are a good neighbor, no neighbor calls the police or town council. When you behave inconsiderately, they come and tell you about the problem. If you do not co-operatively work to fix it, then they go to the law. There then comes the law, a direct response to your refusal to work, on a local level, to live peaceably with your neighbors. This also applies internationally and when you focus on the idea of being "the one I want next door in heaven" then you see it evolving past your personal bubble, influencing mind sets and behaviours outside of you, and informing all of your choices as your own understanding of the world grows. When you learn, for instance, that smog is causing Nepal to dry up and melt down, with catastrophic landslide floods and dead crops, you find yourself making different transportation choices more often.
But no, we environmentalists are still having to fight and argue to simply show you the problem, even to this day! Why? Why you do this?
If there's anything I care about in life, it's the biosphere we live in and it's balance of healthy life. I can't give a reason. I don't care about the man dying in Tibet, or you smoking yourself to cancer, or your cute kitten that got run over. I care, though, that the air you breathe gives you joy, not COPD. I care that the himalyas and Rockies and Alps still shine forbidding and pristine under permanent ice caps. I care because my compassion informs most of my emotions and I am so very sensitive to every living thing, on a heart level, that I feel the suffering. I can't read the subtext you're sending, but I can read the pain you're feeling, or your joy, and that of even tiny creatures and plants.
We hear people complaining so much about too much government and law. Nobody seems to grasp that it's caused by too much rude behaviour. When you are a good neighbor, no neighbor calls the police or town council. When you behave inconsiderately, they come and tell you about the problem. If you do not co-operatively work to fix it, then they go to the law. There then comes the law, a direct response to your refusal to work, on a local level, to live peaceably with your neighbors. This also applies internationally and when you focus on the idea of being "the one I want next door in heaven" then you see it evolving past your personal bubble, influencing mind sets and behaviours outside of you, and informing all of your choices as your own understanding of the world grows. When you learn, for instance, that smog is causing Nepal to dry up and melt down, with catastrophic landslide floods and dead crops, you find yourself making different transportation choices more often.
But no, we environmentalists are still having to fight and argue to simply show you the problem, even to this day! Why? Why you do this?
If there's anything I care about in life, it's the biosphere we live in and it's balance of healthy life. I can't give a reason. I don't care about the man dying in Tibet, or you smoking yourself to cancer, or your cute kitten that got run over. I care, though, that the air you breathe gives you joy, not COPD. I care that the himalyas and Rockies and Alps still shine forbidding and pristine under permanent ice caps. I care because my compassion informs most of my emotions and I am so very sensitive to every living thing, on a heart level, that I feel the suffering. I can't read the subtext you're sending, but I can read the pain you're feeling, or your joy, and that of even tiny creatures and plants.