Re: 32 teaspoons of sugar a day/ teenage boy and making a difference

August 25, 2009

Yeah, those daily indulgences add up to a tremendous economic and health

crisis on the personal and national level. That's cool pointing out what 3

mountain dews a day add up to over the course of a month. I think it would be

powerful to make a display, take the jar of 32 teaspoons of sugar representing

one day's worth, then have a bucket with a month's worth, then next to that the

pallet of what a year's worth would be. That would be a graphic example, maybe

with the caption, " And you're wondering why you can't loose any weight? "

Anyone feel free to forward anything I put up on this site. Like it or not

we're in a war and it's only through grassroots informational exchange that a

conscious change towards a sustainable future takes place. Sometimes I make

mistakes and I certainly don't know a whole lot but if each of us does something

in mass that adds up to a lot of power. Part of what the system does is to

disempower each individual making us think we are weak and powerless to do

anything. That's total B.S. and there are lots of historical examples of people

who loved enough to try to do something different and managed to enact huge

change.

One of my teachers had a story to illustrate this. He was at an earth day

conference/celebration with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people attending the

event. Trash littered the ground everywhere, his 6 year old son said, " Daddy,

why don't they do something? Aren't they trying to save the earth? " A response

(which I don't remember) was muttered, and the child took it upon himself to go

pick up a piece of paper and put it in the trash can. Other people saw what the

child was doing and started picking up trash to. It was like an expanding wave

that spread throughout the event as dozens and dozens and dozens of people also

started picking up trash. So my teacher uses this to say, " If you don't know

what to do to save the earth, go pick up a f###ing piece of paper. " Tremendous

wisdom, even if shared using coarse language.

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