This morning’s random reading struck a cord with me, particularly in the following paragraph:

“Now that we know that within 10 years there’ll be nothing left of the inhabited world except a few hundred thousand windmills sticking out of the ocean, where’s the threat in diverting the water supply of South America? Every Sunday night at home, before the bins are collected on Monday morning, I get accused by my assembled family of destroying civilization by not paying enough attention to separating potato peelings from excess plastic packaging. Who isn’t threatening to destroy civilization?…”  Clive James’s Point of View on BBC And here is the link to the whole article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7702216.stm

Zombied into automatism, when I wash the vegan friendly, butter free substance, off a plastic tub, before throwing it into the general rubbish bin (becaous the number of the plastic of the tub doesn’t correspond to any 25 options listed in the recycling point in our recycling-conscious village as recognised recyclable kinds of plastic), I do feel somewhat uncertain…