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Written by Solar Home Review
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Monday, 26 April 2010 08:48 |
 Complaining about the state of the world is at epidemic proportions. Hand-wringing, reactionary postures and useless sarcasm have become nothing more than a bad habit, that serves nothing except to irritate that rest of us, who honestly wish you would all shut up. It's like being on a camping trip with Heidi Montag. Sorry to the Heidi's of the world - but may I have your attention all K-Mart shoppers, boot camp will be starting shortly. Boot camp being the crashing reality of climate change effects in the coming years.
I'm writing this to encourage anyone who thinks about the power of action, not a knew topic, and to say to you - Take Action. I know that many complainers of the world care deeply, but snap out of it already. You could be busy creating the change we need in our communities and cities and countries. Why are you crying in your Marguerita? Discipline your passions and use them to create solutions and rise to our climate preservation challenge. Fill your book shelf with stories of those creating solutions past and present, and get inspired. Try to stop listening to media that tells you their glib sense of the world. The majority of media outlets, don't serve you or inform you. They serve only your need to feel like you know what's going on in the world, but literally pull the wool over your eyes. Take time to be informed, the world is a complex place and not easy to understand - and you have a resilient and creative spirit in you.
Bring solutions to your community and then get moving, and stop trotting in circles like a stressed out animal on a short lease. If I've offended you I can't apologize for wanting to tell you some truth that will help you, and I hope later you stop being offended and start creating positive changes in your life and in your world. Solutions can be modest but powerful ideas that create a better way of living on the planet, and can help us all to respect the greater life-process we are apart of.
Some examples:
- Start switching to no plastic waste. Use glass containers or buy bio-bags.
- Start a campaign to ban plastic bags in your community and then stick with it.
- Recognize your own consumer addictions and then gently make changes, driving less, exercising more, eating locally grown organics, spending time in nature, connecting with your neighbors and cultivating a garden instead of watching so much TV. This isn't church and no one's in the pulpit.
- Electric car transportation is exploding, find out about it and get involved (something you won't hear on the news on a daily basis). I'm lobbying my government to allow electric cars into the market in Canada. See Tesla, Better Place etc.
- Create sustainable energy at home, a little at a time. One solar panel this year, two next year and a wind turbine after that, if that's more financially doable. Solar panel installation is subsidized by governments in many parts of the world. These incentives will be gone in 15-20 years, so take the help now while it's there.
These aren't creative ideas, just a citing of some obvious steps and existing solutions, that you can get involved in today, if you're not sure where to start. Maybe you have some really creative ideas in you. Can you look and see? The rest of us would be truly grateful. Observe your own perspective and ask who are the people who are making the world a better place? Your positive input changes the world as does your complaining. Are your circumstances now only serving to magnify your perception of your own powerlessness in the face of a troubled world? You have a creative and resilient spirit in you.
Source: Solar Home Review
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