The spiral effect of everything...
Lately I have been thinking a lot on cause and effect. Some things are easy to see... like the cause and effect of spendy money, and then not having it. lol... others are not so easy. Driving a lot in one week, and then your children being all out of sorts. Toddlers not feeling well, and so acting up just before they get visably sick. Climate change, bees dying, and then no food for humans. This type of thing gets me. I sit and look at my flowers, yellow rhodies (which I do not even like), bright pink peonies, smaller, more subtle blueberry flowers, pea flowers, chive flowers, etc. It only takes one bee to move from flower to flower to get those babies polinated. But I am not sure we will even have that. That worry, is of course, the alarmist in me. It probably won't be an issue at all. But it makes you think: what else can I do? Do I give up my small car payments for a Hybrid car? Would that really even help? Do I stop driving? That would stop Don from going to work at this point, and me from having any connection to other homeschoolers. It is easy to see the cause and effect of putting tons of herbicide on your grass to make it all pretty and healthy and then fish dying down stream. That is an easy connection (but one some still don't get sadly). But the connection between disposable paper cups for coffee and rainforest disappearance... those things are harder to see. The connection between the huge rise in 'immunity disorders' and immunizations. The connection between my stomach illnesses and drinking coffee (which I am once again, hopelessly hooked on after 5 years of not drinking it!). Things like this. They are hard to see... easy to ignore. But becoming more important the more we learn.
Sometimes I just want to go back to a time when we had to work with nature, and not fight it. But then the information age has SO much to offer that I don't really mean that. What I mean is that I wish that we had learned from the huge mistakes... instead of just asking for government subsidy because our crops are not growing anymore.
Sometimes, it just seems like capitalism is the best, and the worst thing that has ever happened to the world.
How is that for a disjointed, broad-sweeping post?
Sometimes I just want to go back to a time when we had to work with nature, and not fight it. But then the information age has SO much to offer that I don't really mean that. What I mean is that I wish that we had learned from the huge mistakes... instead of just asking for government subsidy because our crops are not growing anymore.
Sometimes, it just seems like capitalism is the best, and the worst thing that has ever happened to the world.
How is that for a disjointed, broad-sweeping post?