S*T*O*P
I don’t know about the rest of you - I hope I soon will – but surely I’m not the only person on earth who thinks it’s time to STOP:
Religious hatred
Using fuel unnecessarily by commuting to work
Fooling ourselves into thinking that bio fuels are an option
Wrapping things in endless plastic packaging
Religious hatred. It doesn’t matter who’s right about God, because we’ve no way of knowing for certain, and without doubt we’ll all find out eventually, so a bit of patience seems a better option than this constant round of fisticuffs in the car park of life. The money and lives that are wasted in this tragic and pointless conflict could both be put to better uses. So why don’t we just stop doing it and start helping each other build a better this world for all of us. Let’s tell the religious and political authorities to stop picking through books to find excuses for violence and hatred. If we don’t pull together and really face up to what’s happening to Earth, then the human race is going to find out who’s right about God a lot sooner than it ever thought possible.
Fuel and commuting to work. We all know that driving cars is bad for the planet but I still see car-packed roads wherever I go. Don’t drive to work, work from home. Tell your boss you don’t want to commute anymore. Why sit at a computer all day at work after a stressful and polluting journey to get there when you have a perfectly good one at home? Why bother to put yourself through it? It’s down to lazy employers who don’t trust their staff – what does that say about their attitude to you? They think you’ll spend all day at home lying in bed eating chocolates and watching day time TV, or going out to the pub or fishing. They’re wrong of course, and they can easily keep track of your work output using the latest technology. So let’s just stop all this wasteful travel and work from home wherever it’s possible.
Bio-fuels. Let me get this right. Millions of people in the world don’t have enough to eat. These poor people are being encouraged by rich people, who have too much to eat, to grow bio-crops to fuel the rich people’s cars and homes and offices rather than food to feed themselves. Isn’t that just the most idiotic idea you’ve ever heard? The developed world is going to have to give up quite a lot in the way of lifestyle if this planet is to survive, and the Chinese and everybody else who’s jumped onto the bandwagon just have to face the fact that it’s too late for them to enjoy fast cars and the luxury living. It’s tough, but that’s the way it is. All of us have to work together to ensure that we have the same quality of life – enough food and drink, adequate shelter, a means of earning a modest livelihood. That’s all folks. Let’s challenge Sir Alan Sugar, Donald Trump, Peter Jones and all the rest of the tycoons who made it big from nothing to rise to the biggest entrepreneurial challenge of them all. How to satisfy human greed in an egalitarian world that is on the edge of extinction? I hope they can give us some unbiased advice without pointing, shouting or sneering. It’s going to be a tough nut to crack, but it has too be done, and soon.
Finally – on a lighter (as in floating down the road and getting tangled in trees) note - plastic packaging. How come if I buy packaged organic vegetables and fruit from my local supermarket, the packaging is compostable, but if I buy non-organic produce, it isn’t. That does not make sense. If we have the capability to produce compostable packaging, surely it should be against the law to use any other form? Also, what’s wrong with brown paper carrier bags? They are harmless and useful, so why don’t we use them and stop suffocating ourselves in cheap plastic bags. Let’s do it.
LET’S STOP
Let me know what you think.
