Be Kind to Our Blue Boat Home

     Our planet needs our cooperation in order to survive. We need our planet in order to survive. Our children need us, in order to survive.

    We human beings need to learn new ways. Our current economic model that is based on growth is not sustainable. Yes, we need to advocate for macro level solutions; yet, sustainability begins at home and within our smaller communities.

    I present you with a few quotes from Mark Sappenfield’s weekly column from the Christian Science Monitor:

    “Zero waste is obviously about changing behaviors to produce less waste. But as my wife shared with me all the inventive ways people are getting around using plastic or reusing clothes or curbing the desire to accrue things we don’t really need, I realized that, really, zero waste starts with something else. It starts with consenting to change thought. The first step, in other words, is simply being willing to do something differently. In many ways, that first step can be the hardest of all.”

    “Once that first step is taken – the onward pull of reason and conscience be progress.”

    “At a time when there appears to be so much turmoil in the world, it is possible to look out and instead see something else: the world struggling with the perpetual task of consenting to new ideas. Politics today politics today show how easily we can become stuck in the mentally familiar. Polarization is groupthink turned inflexible.”

    “The world, on the other hand, is constantly demanding that we be kinder and more connected – that we think ever larger.”

    “The only constant is the universal need for progress, and that will never leave us where found us.

    So I must ask myself – 
Monte, are you willing to take that first step and begin living a more sustainable lifestyle?

~ Monte High, UUCGV Member