Everyone is talking about “going green” and other forms of conservation of late. Cries of “Save the planet” are fairly ubiquitous these days. CNN even ran stories of A Planet in Peril coupled with suggestions for making our world a cleaner, healthier place. For the record, huge fan! Regardless of your stance on global warming and climate change, who wouldn’t want to help out and do what they could to preserve our planet?
While so many seem to focus on the Environment at the macro level, my view of late has dovetailed with a corollary People in Peril message. At the micro environment level many have started to wonder about personal climate change. Wild weather and even wilder financial markets, political uncertainty and terrorist threats, food shortages and threats to our fresh water supplies make some of us look towards preserving at a slightly more personal locale, heaven forbid the unthinkable happen.
Now some in the main stream media call this paranoia, positing fear mongers focused on Armageddon. For me, Hurricane Katrina was a wakeup call. No conspiracy theory intended here, just plain old calculating of the facts. In times of great emergency, survival becomes personal. There simply aren’t enough “responders” to go around. Crossing your fingers doesn’t cut it in the 21st Century. You have to be your own hero/heroine.
When you can’t call on the Government, when you can’t call on outside emergency services, can you call on yourself?
Check out the American Red Cross and the American Preppers Network.
It’s not paranoia, it’s personal conservation.
Savvy?
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