Heck, I am only 37 years old and I remember the World I grew up in...and it is already different from this one. My children have seen less live animals, less blooming flowers in the Sonoran dessert than those I saw when I was younger. Toads for instance...we had so many toads after the rainy season, now all I find are rocks, mud and trash. And this goes for everything...tidal pools were full of live beings, the ocean brought a vast array of life every other day: giant Humboldt calamari, vast amounts of beautiful red praws, giant blue shrimp, giant zebra urchins, the massive kelp forests, fin whales giving birth in front of you...seems all is gone. Nothing there for my children to experience...this cannot be the World we will inherit. And I remember very clearly it was during 1997's Niņo when things started happening, when the Mexican economy was in shambles and the poor people started fishing everything out, also when PET bottles became more abundant.
Governments? They SHOULD represent the people...we ARE the people. Then IT IS US who should be doing something, politicians are having way much fun in their Macchiavelian plots. And we can either start a violent war against each other or start a war against IGNORANCE... Education is our first line of defense. And if you SELL or BUY something (we all do) then you can HELP by educating yourself and by educating others as well. No big thing. Just try to do the right thing!
Guilt might work on a customer, but my toughts are on the opposite side of the fence... will it make you
feel better??? No need to focus on the negative aspect, instead settle for the positive: you ARE doing something good...and not only for you, but for countless others
This world needs more teachers and less politicians. I am not trying to go into a pointless debate here...the forum is about Pearls, somehow one thing led to another. Maybe we should just STOP this thread and find a better -more suited- forum. But it was good to vent this all out...whoa!