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Most people are so proud they would rather carve a chunk out of their own flesh than allow someone else to win.
Tomorrow is Earth Day, with Earth Hour supposed to be a time when we turn everything off and contemplate our world. Frankly, at this point, it's pretty useless.
1. The people who could use less without struggling aren't going to. (I used to have a friend who would turn all her lights on for Earth Hour, just because she was a bitch. This is why we're not friends anymore. Along with the fact that for the last eight years she hasn't said a single positive thing to me.)
2. The people who can use less and will use less have already done what they can within the limits of our energy-hungry society. Not always perfectly, but let's be honest: doing the convenient thing is SO EASY and it's specifically designed to be like that, as well as to shuffle the costs away to someone that we don't know, don't see, and hardly care about except in the abstract.
3. The people who can't use less (because they're already on the brink of nothing, or because they need the things that electricity brings like medical services, assistance, etc.) are just feeling like this is all a guilt trip. Which, they're probably not wrong.
I don't expect anyone to join in; but I strongly dislike the people who ostentatiously tell me that they're going to be assholes just to
My own capabilities allow for it, so tomorrow I will:
1. Try to catch public transport so long as it's not a transport desert (which none of the places I'm going are for me, just a little inconvenient and requiring some walking - which, for someone who is physically capable - THE HORROR)
2. Eat as much home-grown and home-made as possible. Coffee may be an issue, see also: black tea. My instincts are to buy stuff on the weekend (breakfasts, takeaways), because WEEKEND and TASTY but this Saturday, I shall not. I have (from home): sourdough crumpets, eggs, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet potato leaves, chinese veggie leaves, a baby pumpkin, beans, a couple of tomatoes, an eggplant (orange eggplant), basil leaves... I'm pretty sure I can put something together that works...
Those are the plans. How they come to fruition? Another matter...
Oh, I also have to process a kg of olives, which were picked about a week ago and are taking up space in the fridge. As well as probably rotting. :(
Tomorrow is Earth Day, with Earth Hour supposed to be a time when we turn everything off and contemplate our world. Frankly, at this point, it's pretty useless.
1. The people who could use less without struggling aren't going to. (I used to have a friend who would turn all her lights on for Earth Hour, just because she was a bitch. This is why we're not friends anymore. Along with the fact that for the last eight years she hasn't said a single positive thing to me.)
2. The people who can use less and will use less have already done what they can within the limits of our energy-hungry society. Not always perfectly, but let's be honest: doing the convenient thing is SO EASY and it's specifically designed to be like that, as well as to shuffle the costs away to someone that we don't know, don't see, and hardly care about except in the abstract.
3. The people who can't use less (because they're already on the brink of nothing, or because they need the things that electricity brings like medical services, assistance, etc.) are just feeling like this is all a guilt trip. Which, they're probably not wrong.
I don't expect anyone to join in; but I strongly dislike the people who ostentatiously tell me that they're going to be assholes just to
My own capabilities allow for it, so tomorrow I will:
1. Try to catch public transport so long as it's not a transport desert (which none of the places I'm going are for me, just a little inconvenient and requiring some walking - which, for someone who is physically capable - THE HORROR)
2. Eat as much home-grown and home-made as possible. Coffee may be an issue, see also: black tea. My instincts are to buy stuff on the weekend (breakfasts, takeaways), because WEEKEND and TASTY but this Saturday, I shall not. I have (from home): sourdough crumpets, eggs, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet potato leaves, chinese veggie leaves, a baby pumpkin, beans, a couple of tomatoes, an eggplant (orange eggplant), basil leaves... I'm pretty sure I can put something together that works...
Those are the plans. How they come to fruition? Another matter...
Oh, I also have to process a kg of olives, which were picked about a week ago and are taking up space in the fridge. As well as probably rotting. :(
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