Take a deep breath

As most children as a child I was very concerned about the environment, nature, humanity, the animals. I was terrified by the thread of the atom bomb and people and animals dying of pollution.
When a truck passed me while driving to school on my bicycle I would keep my breath in as long as I could to not to inhale the poisonous exhausian gases. I was convinced it would expand my longevity.

In 1973 when I was eleven there was the socalled -petrol crisis-.
For us children it was a great happening because it resulted in car-free sundays. No one but, no one in the whole country, except for police etc was allowed to drive their cars on these sundays. So we went biking and roller skating on even the biggest highways.
A tremendous feeling of freedom as I can clearly remember.
Then after a few weeks the petrol crisis was over (..?) and life got back to 'normal' again.

That same periode a friend and me got a group of children together with the idea to go to the mayor of our village and demand that they had to declare that it would be prohibited to smoke during their meetings. For to us smoking was very unhealthy and to us them being the heads of the village giving a very bad example for society and us youngsters was unacceptable.

I see a big similarity in tobacco(tar) and petrol. They're both dark and sticky.
Both by burning petrol and tobacco we try hard to end breathing.
Breath being almost the most important movement there is for all life on this planet. Breath of the trees, breath of lungs, lifes' breath.

Humans have a big big concern which is running out of petrol.
I think it would be one of the best things that could happen to our mother planet home and all her inhabitants.

Yesterday I red that Saudi Arabia declared that there is only 40% petrol reserves of what they had esteemed there was..
Who is able to know..? All knowledge in this is based on assumptions. And then, there are theories that the earth by the difference in movement/friction of earths' outer crust and its inner core the earth is 'making' petrol all the time..
But it's just to put up the price and fear. It's the good old marketing trick... And we will pay for it, nomatter, until death do us..

We all know that there is lots of sustainable alternatives like the ties (breath) of the seas', the sun, free energy ( this tiny example shows very simple at there is energy to get out of 'nothing'. And please try this at home!).

Every time I'am so astonished by the amount of plastic (read petrol) in my trashcan... but I keep on buying cookies, cheese and all the rest and all is wrapped in plastic. I avoid buying them but why do lemons, avocado's, apple and cucumbres also need to be wrapped up in plastic since a couple of year..?
And a seemingly tiny unimportant issue.. but why since five years on ALL the juice containers they had to come a plastic lid..? How many lids end up in the garbage worldwide every day... the tiny winy plastic lids.. I'am sure millions.. and millions.. The containers already were not recyclable for they have an aluminum inside, a paper outside .. and now with a plastic lid..? We didn't have an environmental problem yet.. five years ago?
Please, please can we make laws that prohibit producing stuff like this in the the urgent need for change..!! No that's "not" possible, not in a capitalist structured "civilisation" as ours. For there are people earning money in factories that people own and they earn money on them and ..

Why is tobacco still for sale legally, while in the mean while it's too obvious that this most highly addictive product is the cause of outrages suffering, illness and death, even for the ones choosing not to smoke..
Because there's people earning money by working in factories and the owners of the factories make money on them and .. And governments taking in huge amounts of tax on peoples legal addiction and so finance (life and petrol consuming) war.

What did or do i do to try to change my carbon footprint..? Did I change my behavior patterns the last 10/15 years..? No I did not.
Yes I eat organic, capture rainwater, compost organics, don't flush the toilet after pieing, 85% of the stuff I own is second hand by choice...
THE most valuable thing I could have done or could do I don't. As if addicted. I still drive around in my petrol consuming car to go buy stuff wrapped up in plastic (read petrol) packaging. Addicted to the feeling of freedom and liberty and to the right to go where I want when I want it: my car.

I WISH WE RUN OUT OF OIL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Or that it gets so expensive that I have to give up food/shelter in afford to driving my car.
And I have the arrogance to see my self as conscious..

(next new moon I start a nine day springtime fast... and an other attempt to give up tobacco..)

Peace to All
Namaste