Let go of your TV

It s still our addiction to comfort and convenience that thwarts our every effort to "change". We seem to think where we are as culture is fine and the product of good practice. The truth is, we must let go of many of the comforts we've contrived over the past 30 or 40 years. "Change" looks different. So take a walk through your house and observe the profound difference between your lifestyle five years ago and today. Television? Computer? new carpet? Hows your car? Still working for fixed wages of sliding value?

The root cause for the problems of our time (war, anthropogenic global warming, air pollution, water pollution, dwindling funds for education, antiquated transportation system, and so on) is consumption. The solution, naturally, is conservation. Of course there is much more complication, but let us once and for all stop bickering about opinions on what shade things are; things are fuqed and conservation is long over due.

Recycling is not conservation, it is a highly consumptive process. Conservation would have us not using the vast majority of products we currently recycle for they are disposable/recyclable. Throw it in a land fill; waste a bunch of energy and pollute the world? Stop using disposable products.

Now we have a choice and we must choose to conserve, or more so, we must be less excessive in our wastefulness. We must look objectivly at our habbits and change them to favor conservation, not consumption. We cannot get to where we want to be morally, healthfully and responsibly if we try to maintain this current lifestyle. Let go, grow and BE THE CHANGE