Shake Us Off

“Our world civilization and its global economy are based on beliefs incompatible with enduring habitation of the earth: that everything has been put on earth for our use, that resources not used to meet our needs are wasted and that resources are unlimited” (Carl McDaniel and John Gowdy). I especially like this quote because it relates to what a friend of mine once said. She said “the human race is like flees living on a dog and one day the earth is just going to shake us all off”. This, what I guess you could call a theory, means a lot to me because it is a great metaphor. As we all now know about the importance of living sustainable we have to all realize that it must happen now. One day the earth will shake us all off and before that how bad are the living conditions actually going to be? Would we want to live in a world that’s highly polluted, where living conditions are fatally poor and where we would not even be able to enjoy our own environment? Of course not but we all know which direction, as of right now, we are heading in. This exam we are preparing for is a great way to introduce what it’s like to not have all of these things we take for granted on a daily bases. Living without some of these things is a great exercise in preparing us for what we must and should be dealing with more often.