Technologies evolve..people haven’t. It’s kind of a strange thing, if you think about it. The machines and materials all around us are getting smarter. Smart phones, smart materials, smart gels with “memory” and we’re all getting dumber. More savvy? Maybe. But more likely to become pregnant before 18 than we used to be. More likely to care less about how these same new technologies which make our lives easier, might also be reducing the “human” and “social” qualities of them.

Toxic and human wastes, life-long, inescapable low-level radiation (doesn’t sound so benign when you tack on a few adjectives, does it?) not to mention the myriad chemicals, specifically isolated and concentrated in factories in order to be disposed of later after processing by our bodies.

Well it’s all there. And we know it’s there. And we don’t care. At least as a society we don’t seem to much. The T.V. will tell you 10,000 ways that your neighbor will kill you, but fails to mention that it’s heart disease that most people die of. Then Cancer. Common sense tends to indicate that it’s not who you know, but what’s going into your body that’s killing you. But again…we don’t care.

Well not as a whole..but here we are. If we come together..even in small groups..those small groups will produce change. It’s inevitable. But to understand how powerful we are as a group of individuals joined together for a common purpose, we have to have the courage to invest a little time, because that’s where our capital is.

Certainly, this is a reasonable mark of our evolution from the simple herd/hive mentality of bees or cows to more conscious human beings: that we chose to do of our own freewill, that which we believe in, with more motivation than we ever did to earn wages and promote the goals of our captains of industry.

Congratulations for making it to Eco-mUNITY. We’re on our way.

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