It's not Easy...

To bring about a shift in our lives and the world we live in we will need to change some attitudes and ideas.  The old way was based on what I can get out of you and the planet.   It was competition that becomes so extreme that it turns into exploitation.  I know a man that runs his dogs in a protected growth area.  It is a forest within the city that is protected to provide animal and bird habitat and plant life.  This is convenient for him so he either doesn’t realize what those large dogs can do to the area or he knows and doesn’t care.   This is the kind of thinking that has governed what the large corporations have done to our planet and the people.  If it is the easiest way to make money then they will not worry about the effect it has on people and the environment.   
Thankfully there are individuals now and some companies who are starting to realize that the old way of thinking is not sustainable and people are starting to see through what they are doing.   I think it is interesting that these programs of starting to think sustainably are called green.   I know that is the color of plants and trees, but it is also the color of the American dollar.   Thinking ahead, realizing ones true motivations, and trying to change the competitive exploitation of the past are the things we need to teach our children.    I’m afraid in some cases they will be teaching us before we can get a grasp on an economy of sharing and collaboration.    Until the ideas become so common and people start using common sense it will probably be as Kermit the frog has said:  ‘It’s not easy being green’.