Mother's Day & A Future !

Wouldn't you want your children & grandchildren to experience one ?

Mother's day is that one day a year, where two parties look forward to it. Of course in an ideal world Mothers will lounge in bed all day and have their wishes read from their eyes, by us kids ! As kids, Mother's day is our way to show some ( more ) appreciation.

Mother's are far more fortunate than Fathers'...they don't end up with ties, socks or undies ! No, they receive breakfasts, flowers, chocolates and more.

Well everybody, shouldn't we make sure that our children have a chance to do the same for us one day ? When we were younger, a future was never in question. We worried about what to do or what to have in our future, but future itself was never in doubt ! Sadly, it seems that a future could be in doubt...

Reading an article in the New York Times sent shivers run down my spine. What are we, collectively that is, doing to our wonderful planet ? Global warming in the last decade or so, was banded about everywhere yet clearly most of us weren't listening.

The danger levels have crept higher and by tacitly accepting this, we must have thought it didn't matter. Not anymore. Just look at what the weather has done this last year. Now that is a big clue already.

It seems that somehow we just have carried on taking deposits out of our children's chance of a Future ! Look, our planet is not like our house. Once you put a lien on it, that is it. You can't pay it back and hope everything returns to what it was. All of us, myself included, need to wake up and grab our chance to save our future !

It all sounds difficult and possibly daunting to do. No one likes change. Most of us wait until someone else does it first. But, what if that other person thinks so too ? Are we like those frogs that jump into cold water and slowly get boiled alive, without realizing it ?

Why don't we ( each one of us ) just do one thing different each and everyday ! :

• Every car journey you undertake, plan it within an inch of efficiency. Even if it is just to get groceries. For example, buy groceries only every other day / once a week. You would save petrol and carbon dioxide emissions.
• Let's do just one thing " green " per day, but every day. Eg. take the bus /bicycle, switch off unnecessary lights, buy something produced locally and the list is endless.
• Maybe each News Cast ( around the world ) should begin with : " I hope you've done your green thing today ? ", followed by a heat map of the world. Let's get the colour from red back to green.

To do small changes everyday doesn't take a lot of effort from us. We don't need to wait until and / or if Governments come up with a solution, answer or dare I say denial...by the way, isn't a Government made up as a representation of us, the people ?

Happy Mothers day to all...

Biggi

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