I could spend my time working to pay for and watching things like this:
Or I could take that same time–as I did this weekend–and spend it with my three-year-old Isabella doing stuff instead of watching stuff:
The politicians and so many others worry that using fewer planetary resources means deprivation and that deprivation won’t sell. But they’re lacking the vision of something better.
I can’t help thinking this treadmill we’re on means we’re already deprived. The message is that in saving the planet we could have more–not more stuff but more life.
Because great lives need not cost the earth.