At some point we are going to need to step back and look at what the convenience of our society is costing us. Can we try to spend our dollars on things that won't hurt our future children and their children and on and on. I am not a fatalistic, more of a romantic, and I have this illusion that we are going to clean up our act, quit putting harmful chemicals in our air, in our food, in products, such as toys, cleaning supplies, manufactured goods, on our bodies, in our environment and that we ARE going to make this a better place to live. But can we? Is there any will to do it?
So many areas of our world have already been decimated out of ignorance, greed, profit margins, big corporations telling us "this is safe, trust us" and nature will repair itself, and we will fix it "later". There is no later, we cannot continue trusting corporations that do not have our best interests as a priority. Nature will not repair itself, we have run out of time to fix it. We must begin to change our habits, alter our lifestyles, save ourselves. Our government will not protect us, that has been proven with all the chemicals that have been allowed to be used over the last hundred years since our industrialization. Our farmers have been pushed out by large conglomerates, and a safe food supply is almost non-existent.
Here is the problem as I see it. We have for too long turned a blind eye, we have allowed the governments all over the world as well as the corporate entities to tell us what was safe. If you look at their track records, well, government allows the corporations to tell them what is safe, until someone else comes along, for instance, scientists, activists, etc. and tell them differently, then sometimes, the government will put a band-aid on something, sometimes not. The track record is not a good one. Food safety, packaging, labeling. The system seems to be broken. Lets begin to figure out how to fix it. My Opinion only. Thank you for letting me rant.
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