Sermon on the amount

Another excerpt from my Dole Diary.

Friday, 29 April 2005
Watched 'Supersize Me' on the telly, and congratulated myself for getting through the day without a cup of sugar and half a pound of saturated fat.

The answer to the world's over-consumption, fossil burning, denuding nature of its bounty, chemical lives is, I am discovering, poverty. If we were all sort-of poor, or at least not silly rich and if we all had to think about our transport (mine is walking and bus), our shopping (without a car you can't stock up for Armageddon), our use of energy (turning off lights and the like), the products we use (opening a window beats spraying the house with noxious chemicals) and if we took time to talk with each other (when walking or shopping locally that can happen), well, the earth would be better off...and so would we! Thus endeth the sermon on the amount…

Must get on. Have a M12 04/04 form to fill in. It is for people with a mortgage; and it may be that I will qualify for help to pay it.