Our HABITS
What is a priority to you?
Money or power?
Some would say honesty and love.
Others would simply answer, "My next meal."
With personal priorities dictating our lives at every turn, we go through the motions of life trying to keep up with our responsibilities ignoring all other circumstances around us.
All without noticing that our lives are inherently intertwined with every other living organism in existence. We cannot buy cleaning supplies for the office bathroom, go to the movies, or buy a friend their birthday diner without affecting everything around us.
Each of us have our own personally intricate and convoluted. We all play out our personal scenes among a countless sea of people doing exactly the same thing in completely different circumstances.
Human impacts on the environment go farther than just the oil and clothing industries that waste water, contaminate large areas of land, and poison air and water sources. We do it too. We waste, contaminate, and destroy on a daily basis under the guise of being a productive member of society contributing to the economy. Driving your car soils one's air quality, heating your home contributes to oil consumption, and buying anything from a store or restaurant supports wasteful and unsustainable practices. Our modern conveniences, striving for the mainstream idea of a higher standard of living is vain and quite frankly irresponsible in the long run. It's hard to escape these bad habits seeing as though consumption is pushed on us all by unethically deceiving marketing and advertising practices. The corporations responsible for the degradation of the environment spend countless of millions of dollars a year on misinformation campaigns, anti-labeling campaigns of toxic chemicals and GMO’s, etc. It seems like at every turn our lives contribute in a negative way to the natural biodiversity, and everything is done against the grain of nature. Imagine if instead nature was used as a guide… Bees hives are some of the strongest and most efficient structures known to man, the wasp a close relative to the bee has cancer curing venom, free and clean solar energy can solve our energy issues… there are so many ways in which we could mimic and draw from the natural occurrences of the planet in order to live healthy sustainable lives. It is our job to be informed enough to know that is possible, and try to work towards goals that humanity can stand by and be proud of centuries to come.
