Limiting Climate Change: The Neglected Obstacle
Inconsideration is human. You see that when the US and China refuse to clean up their mess with a 'hey, it doesn't bother us!' Apparently a touch of global warming would be welcome from Chinese point of view as it would be favorable to their agricultural industry! India and Africa, the article says will be the most hard-hit.
This perhaps, is a sadly sobering reminder that nation states and their leaders can be just as inconsiderate as people we encounter in the mundane. Just this morning, I stumbled into the kitchen, still half-asleep, to make my cup of tea. With the soft groan of the AC in the background, the kitchen sink that was overflowing with my roommates' dirty dishes greeted me rather loudly. Inconsiderate, I thought as I loaded the dishwasher.
Very soon, the gurgle of the dishwasher drowned the groan of the AC. Before long, I was rewarding myself with the cup of tea and planning out the day ahead.
Will India and Africa have to clean up other people's dirty dishes? Oh wait, haven't we done that already!
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Dear Gandhi may tire of his words being recycled so often. Better that they be recycled than trashed. Gandhi's words are certainly not dirty dishes or any kind of rubbish. His words are often enormously sensible and even heart-warmingly optimistic and truth-seeking. Well, I should get on with it: Gandhi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world." Clean the damn dishes yourself and stop whining is one way of looking at it. However, we cannot clean everyone's dishes. Finding others to blame, even if they are to blame, is certainly not the whole answer to solving the problem of pollution, waste, filth, and other crap. It seems we all need to do our part. I don't think that means we need to do our roommates dirty dishes. Dialogue is very important. Outing is very important. Big corporations and countries that pollute and hurt our environment must be outed and exposed unrelentlessly. We all like to eat the meal. Most are not crazy about cleaning up the dishes. But, as the dish represents our environment, we must keep the dishes clean so that we can eat again and so that we don't die from poisonous pollution that may very well, someday, end up on our own dishes, in our own homes. Taking care of our environment is a very great, noble, wonderful cause. Hopefully, Bill Gates and other rich folks will give much to those who are truly out to save our world. Goodluck with the roommate. Educating roommates and worldmates can be a very good, positive thing without conflict. Hopefully, the roommate can be encouraged and guided in a positive, non-controlling way--not an argument, an enlightenment (with lemon scent-haha). From Kindhearted Bruce of Arlington, VA
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