It is is my opinion that the greatest challenge facing our environment today is the innate human characteristic of stubbornness and our unwillingness to change. As of late, the necessity of the notion that we must be "greening" our lifestyles has become widespread but, then the wall is hit. People are concerned, people want Earth to continue living but, people don't want to do what it takes for that to happen.
It becomes a sociological issue. How do we convince, and change the minds of millions enough to where they are beyond educated on the issues but, are enlightened? Millions who have had the luxury of being American, Western, privileged (environmentally and economically). How do we inspire the need to look beyond one's self and "shrink" the world in terms of conscious thought?
The eco-terrorist inside of me desires a depression. As with the Great Depression people learned to value everything, nothing was wasted, luxuries like gas and electricity were not taken for granite. People of that era still hold this mindset. Losing faith in people and their ability to take charge and and create change on their own freewill has led me to ponder, what if it were forced? What if people had no choice but to live more simply, to conserve water because they could not afford the bills, take colder showers to save electricity, grow their own food because after losing their jobs their savings had dwindled? Can anyone argue that in this context a depression of such nature would be bad? I am not a communist but I am realist.
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