I have an extremely mild headache. I spent some time worrying about VOCs, Benzenes, and Dioxins, to name a few. I began to wonder if a 99.99% ban on plastics is even possible, for all the reasons mentioned. I began to lament the fact that my dear parents both died of cancer, reflecting on the fact that we harvested shellfish and seafood from waters in close proximity to a pulp mill in Cedar BC before the dioxins were effectively treated (using microbes or “bugs” that like to eat the dioxins and other toxins in the effluent). Cancer is just another word for “slow exposure to toxins” resulting in illness and harmful mutations. Kidney and liver diseases are also not unheard of. If we want to have an innocuous presence on this planet, we have to prioritize what we own and buy and why, for the sake of the Seven Generations into the future. I still have an extremely mild headache. No wonder girls like Greta Thunberg are angry - it is a very sad and sorry state of the world when a young girl has to get so scary angry just to make a point that needed to be heard long long ages ago and her message reverberated across the globe and rightly so.
I really hope, for the sake of future generations, we will literally turn weapons and heavy armaments into plowshares and mesa tables for agape meals. The world would be less toxic and life would also be much simpler in an elegant sort of way. Home and hearth would take precedence over munitions and weapons of war everywhere. Where there’s military, it’s steering planes, trains, automobiles for sustainable accessible tourism and travel sojourns for the benefit of intercultural exchange and outdoor adventures. Where there’s military, there is disaster relief and emergency aid responses to unforeseen events. Where there’s military, there need not be any need for weapons and armaments. With simpler lifestyles also comes better health, better relationships, better neighbourhoods, better communities, better countries and more happiness.
The less mining we engage in, the less toxic waste and the healthier our planet will be for all living creatures’ health.
Remembrance Day is coming soon; those of us old enough to remember will always remember:
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