Comments on: What do Americans Think of Global Warming? http://thisgreenblog.com/2009/06/what-do-americans-think-of-global.html Musings, tips and hard information on green living Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:49:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Don Lawrence http://thisgreenblog.com/2009/06/what-do-americans-think-of-global.html#comment-94998 Don Lawrence Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:17:39 +0000 Thoreau's quote on the free wallpaper link has reasonated with me: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." This is a very powerful statement. What makes it so is that it is introspective and extrospective simultaneously. And perhaps, this is how we should interact with our environment: use internalized reasoning to apply to external events. To put aside selfish pursuits for the good of the global communities wellbeing is probably not an atypical American philosophy. In my travels to central European countries, it became obvious America lags behind in this concept. I think that has alot to do with the assumptions based from a "have all" society. Those who have had less place more value on those intrinsic values that surround them and demonstrate more respect towards them. We American's are not without hope, just require a concerted effort,in which awareness and action replace casual disinterest towards what we have inherited from Mother Earth. Thoreau’s quote on the free wallpaper link has reasonated with me: “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” This is a very powerful statement. What makes it so is that it is introspective and extrospective simultaneously. And perhaps, this is how we should interact with our environment: use internalized reasoning to apply to external events. To put aside selfish pursuits for the good of the global communities wellbeing is probably not an atypical American philosophy. In my travels to central European countries, it became obvious America lags behind in this concept. I think that has alot to do with the assumptions based from a “have all” society. Those who have had less place more value on those intrinsic values that surround them and demonstrate more respect towards them. We American’s are not without hope, just require a concerted effort,in which awareness and action replace casual disinterest towards what we have inherited from Mother Earth.

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