Unacceptable World
Posted on 22. Oct, 2009 by I Have Hope in Brian
I sit here in a speechless sort of anger. I have just got home from the social justice part of the program. I have come to some realizations that perhaps I didn’t want to before. The concept of social justice has many meanings and I now realize there is injustice all around me. It is based on the concept of equality and fairness. The worst part is that it seems that there is nothing I can do about it. As a species we are truly digging our own graves and it is clear that something definitive must be done if we are going to save our earth and ourselves. There is are so many wrongs in this world and I don’t even know where to start. Even the laptop I am on right now might have cost somebody there arm or even their life in the mines where they extract the material for the batteries. I feel disturbed that even though I now know this I probably would have still bought the computer. It almost brings me to tears. As a capitalist culture we are eating up resources at a unsustainable rate while others stare to death in total poverty. I feel like something must be done, but I am afraid that change will only come at the brink of a total social and ecological collapse. We must decide as a species on an acceptable standard of living and create a plan which we can carry out.
Lastly I would like to thank all of of the group for opening my eyes and allowing me to speak freely. My views have been changed and I will do my best to make a difference.
