I’m old enough to remember a childhood with small neighborhood grocery stores, one car families, unlocked doors and safe streets. Things were made to last and enough seemed to be enough. This may seem like nostalgia, but it seems so much more sensible in light of the climate crisis facing us.
It really isn’t an issue of the average citizen adopting a lifestyle that will save the planet, because that is virtually impossible. We have allowed ourselves to construct a society based on consumption, obsolescence, waste, excess and greed. The only solution is for the social structures of government and capitalism to change.
Does anyone really believe this change will happen? The poor don’t have the resources to ruin the planet, and the rich don’t have the courage to save it.
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