All this talk about going green...

And no one bothers...

The earth's dying and almost no one gives a damn... Why? Not my time... Why should i bother... I've got better things to worry about... Money, money, m o n e y. . . . .. .

Alright enough crap talk about all that. I'm not gonna go all Lisa Simpson (perhaps, a little... but not ALL), neither am I gonna set myself up the center stage and give you free lectures like Al Gore, but they all have a point.

It is inherent in human nature to be greedy and selfish. Its survival. Imagine we were still apes. If our survival depended on food, and we had only one dead rabbit which crashed head on to your tree, and you were starving for days, and this one rabbit would determine if you'd live past today. Even with the same fate awaiting the others, would you share it with even your closest cohabiting companions?

Look at the jungle. Darwinism kicks in. It's all survival of the fittest. Where did you think the idiom "The early bird catches the worm" came from? Well, whatever it is, I have to say, selfishness and greediness are more instinctive to us than anything else.

Ever thought why we have set up courts of law? Why do we even have laws? Why do we set up families, and deem ourselves civilized? Strange huh. We created laws which broke the laws of the jungle. We set ourselves apart from the others - in a way, we could say that we were evolved. We were "superior". We were the "fittest". So much so we force ourselves away from the unmerciful laws of the jungle and call ourselves "civilized".

So are we civilized or not?

Are we going to continue to be selfish? Sure, our ancestors may be. After all, as most of us have complained about, they were responsible for the problems we now face. We reserve the right to remain selfish because of that? Or because when the problems start exacerbating till an unbearable point we are no longer around to suffer it? So we have become what we first started out from. No more than just unthinking apes.

Society, progress, technology, it has killed our environment. Now, it has killed our way of life. Our morals and principals. Our integrity, our humanity.

All it takes, is to just switch off lights. Walk a little more. Eat a little less meat. Drive a little less, or best yet don't drive at all. Plant a few more plants. Who says such things don't make a difference? Think of it this way. We have billions of people on earth. If each of us eats one less slice of beef a day, that would translate to millions of poultry saved. One month? 30 million. One year? 1 billion poultry. Or if just a tenth of us stop driving and pool cars with neighbours, that's 10million people less driving cars. And it isnt very much more inconvenient, you can still own that car, just dont make driving to work a routine maybe.

Small things counts to alot. My examples to you may be vague, but the claims are not unfounded. Go google for statistics.

I'm not asking you to be a tree hugger, go be vegetarian, and start picking up a bicycle and running your house entirely by solar panels... I'm just hoping people would just do something less, just a little less, and we will see change...