Sunday, January 21, 2007
Sunday Morning Sermon
Was squeezing facial foam out of a new bottle as I just finished the previous bottle. It finally could squeeze no more. No more tired fingers every morning. I noticed something when I started squeezing out of the new bottle I squeezed more than what I did with the previous bottle. This pattern repeats itself rather frequently. When you hit a certain point you realised that shit, it's finishing soon, better start conserving. Plus somehow I just become more conservative in my estimate of what I need. I suspect this is what happens with the general awareness of how much we're taxing the Earth and the actions that should be taken now instead of later. It's a parabola curve. In the case of natural resources I'll guess it's because we still weren't sure of how to use it and maybe a select few have the access to it. So the usage is slow and little. Then slowly it increases as everyone starts to have access to it and realise how useful, valuable it is. I suspect we've not hit the downturn yet as most people still take the wait-and-see-meanwhile-I'll-continue-my-usual-consumption-pattern attitude towards it. Coz we always expect that someone would invent something that would solve this problem. To most it's just a blip to it and something will come along and you'll forgot that there ever was a problem. Which is worrying on two counts, 1) the scary wait-and-see attitude, 2) someone else will solve the problem so i don't have to do anything. All this pretty much sounds like apathy to me.
I suspect we all need to be sent to some adult sunday school to remind us of the things that we ought to care for and not to take all this for granted.
Unknown at 8:13 am