Sustainability, Carbon Footprint, and Emotions

Dear Oprah,
and the world,

I made a commitment this year to grow my awareness and take more actions to live more sustainable, lower our family’s carbon footprint and bring political pressure to bear for changes. With the current slow down in the economy there’s a natural impetus to be conservative with our resources. Broadening that conservative reflection across all aspects of activities that use resources has made me see just how far outside of sustainable we (humanity) has gotten. We’re on a path to nothing left, we know it, and we still can’t get off that path. I’ve come to the conclusion changing our thinking is not a strong enough or deep enough level of change to carry us to new actions and understandings. A good example is gasoline prices. When they’re high we conserve, when they fall we consume more as if the problem is only the money cost. No, I think the effective level of change is on the emotional level.

What emotional change(s) could we make to change the path we are on?

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