So I completed one of my goals for the summer... by finishing The World Without Us by Alan Weisman...
It's a fantastic read... slightly documentary... slightly hypothetical story telling... it brings to light a myriad of environmental issues around global warming and other wasteful practices of our society. Reaching every inch of the globe; from Manhattan to the coral reefs in the big blue, Weisman leaves no detail not picked apart.
After reading these kinds of books, it almost always makes you want to go live in the side of a mountain with loin cloths and roasting wild game over an open fire. Then, even as I write this blog post, I think about how I'm taking advantage of the technologies (and wastefulness) of our current age and wonder what kinds of things I can do, at smaller levels, to make a difference.
One of those being that Becca will be selling her car...
At any rate... read the book and make a difference in how you live. I'm not advocating slashing Hummer H3 tires in Dallas, but I do want you to think twice about using polystyrene coffee cups or even those bottles of bath soap with "exfoliating" particles...
Definitely worth a pick up...
And also, in my mind, during that section all I could picture were little fishes swimming in a blue sea, of micro beads, not water... almost surreal...