Hesitant Environmentalist
The fact is I don't know where to begin.
So let me ask one thing, how do you, in a more personal level commit to environmental preservation? I mean, is it true at all despite everthing going on around us or everybody is just fooling around?
Yesterday, I went to the supermarket and decided to buy this recyclable shopping bags. So, they are being friendly to the environment. Why not? No, finally! And me being me, I said yes, why not? Even if I had to pay 2AED for it. Was it a joke?
When I got home and started unpacking the groceries, there is one plastic inside carrying the juice and I asked my husband, Why is there a plastic here? He said, Well we have to separate the juice from the other goods, like disinfectants from spinach. And so on and so forth. Yeah.
Do you use brown bags or plastics? What do you do to the mountains of grocery plastic bags? Use them as trash bags? Thing is, in a city that has lots of money, some recycling businesses are very choosy about their stations. So I'm back to square one.
It was like when me and my mother used to argue a lot about burning trash. Ok then, you know about global warming, greenhouse gases. So what? She'd say, and what we will do with all the trash that is not being picked up? Which means, ok so you know all the effects, but who gets the work done?
We all know the whole gamut is much bigger than anyone of us, or do we? But I just wonder who really bends to pick up the trashes? Sadly, true love hasn't come around Mother Nature.
Posted at 1:09 pm by
yum26
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meds
March 21, 2007 04:59 PM PDT
Yeah Bonn, there is no way we can separate ecology from development. Despite the fact that these days, money can make more money out of money (isn't that absurd?)...or in academic terms, the ascendancy of financial capital, and that even if knowledge economy increasingly becomes a source of income for many countries, ecology remains central to our lives. we cannot ignore the things that basically sustain us, that is..Mother Nature.
Let's say, at the end of the day, I ''can't swallow my own words", except when it's printed...hehe. i was told i used to do that when i was a kid.
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Bonn Juego
March 20, 2007 08:05 PM PDT
This has always been puzzling to me, a student of development. I'm still figuring it out, working on the idea of a 'development as a social relation' in which the political, the economic, the cultural, the gender, and the ecological are organically connected to, rather than separate from, one another.
But I just realised that Mother Nature is very apt to refer to our ecology. Like a mother, she has all the patience to absorb the excesses of her spoiled children. And yes, patience has limits, too. |
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