I wish you adults would take better care of this damn thing.
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"A four-year-old child could understand this report. (turns to assistant) Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it."
- Groucho Marx in Duck Soup
I've told you about maintaining a beginner's mind so let's consider this eco-preschool. If you told a four-year-child about how bad climate change is, that child would likely ask:
"What causes climate change?"
You might answer: "Many things, especially the meat-based diet and petroleum-based industry."
The odds are that kid would promptly deliver the obvious, baggage-free, beginner's mind question:
"So, why doesn't everyone just stop eating meat and using oil?"
As they say in South Florida: Bingo.
It's we adults who complicate what's simple: The path towards a cleaner, greener planet begins with the simple choice to change how we live and what we allow the biggest polluters to do.
Think Like a Four-Year-Old
- Embrace Simplicity: The shortest distance between two points is still a straight line
- Manners Are Overrated: How many times have you bitten your tongue rather than appear like an eco-zealot to a mainstream? Don't impose your beliefs on others, we're told...it's not polite. However, I'm wondering, when does it become more rude to be polite? The planet is going to hell in a hand basket but we're nervous about offending? On the grand scale of offensiveness, being forward about eco-change displays far more green manners than ignoring, say, 90% of the large fish in the ocean being gone. Let's speak out and wake up.
Links Are For Kids
The Best Way You Can Go Green: Have Fewer Children
Focus on Focus Earth: Can Children Solve the Environment Crisis?
