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walkitoutI walked A. to the corner ; it was definitely still cold at that point.
I walked with M. a little after 10. Low 60s still. It’s coming up pretty fast, tho, now. We were going to walk at 10:15, but she forgot and came a little before 10. I was waiting for a link to be texted to me for presale for the Marlborough BrickFest Live in October. I don’t _think_ I need to buy my ticket early, but you never know. Anyway, the link was due at 10, so I got her situated with snack and water and then did the link when it arrived and then we walked. It worked out, but I was very walking around like a chicken with its head cut off while looking for a mask, because I’m at like day 8 from when I was feeling pretty bad last week, and M.’s mother is being treated for cancer so I’m trying to not to give anything to her that she might pass on to her mother.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about consumption patterns and sustainability, inflation and adaptation. Odd Lots had a great episode with Stephanie Kelton of MMT on inflation. Kelton’s major focus is on climate, and honestly, that’s really where everyone’s major focus should be, but it’s hard not to be distracted by things like the court leak, the war, the coup attempt, etc. Also, if we ignore those things, we won’t _get_ to do anything about climate so we have to do everything all at once.
One of the problems with moderation or reduction of consumption and trying to be circular and/or sustainable is that it absolutely _collides_ with the basic more more more which is the engine of human activity and not just recently, either. There is crazy gear smash between more is better and moderation of consumption / circularity / frugality. A lot of more more more in the sustainable / circular space is _itself_ problematic, either in the form of even more consumption in the name of But It’s Reusable (but then isn’t reused enough to justify the increased inputs) or in the form of obsessive attention to individual Zero Waste goals, rather than realizing it’s okay to generate the occasional plastic bag waste or whatever and the focus needs to be on helping other people consume less / be more circular / sustainable / etc., or, even better, reducing invisible consumption / increasing invisible sustainability.
I feel like decades of thinking about the waste stream and environmentalism and frugality and whatnot should have led me to a place of greater certainty of What We Ought to Do, and yet I feel like I know even less now than ever. Probably this is actually a good thing. One hopes, anyway.
I walked with M. a little after 10. Low 60s still. It’s coming up pretty fast, tho, now. We were going to walk at 10:15, but she forgot and came a little before 10. I was waiting for a link to be texted to me for presale for the Marlborough BrickFest Live in October. I don’t _think_ I need to buy my ticket early, but you never know. Anyway, the link was due at 10, so I got her situated with snack and water and then did the link when it arrived and then we walked. It worked out, but I was very walking around like a chicken with its head cut off while looking for a mask, because I’m at like day 8 from when I was feeling pretty bad last week, and M.’s mother is being treated for cancer so I’m trying to not to give anything to her that she might pass on to her mother.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about consumption patterns and sustainability, inflation and adaptation. Odd Lots had a great episode with Stephanie Kelton of MMT on inflation. Kelton’s major focus is on climate, and honestly, that’s really where everyone’s major focus should be, but it’s hard not to be distracted by things like the court leak, the war, the coup attempt, etc. Also, if we ignore those things, we won’t _get_ to do anything about climate so we have to do everything all at once.
One of the problems with moderation or reduction of consumption and trying to be circular and/or sustainable is that it absolutely _collides_ with the basic more more more which is the engine of human activity and not just recently, either. There is crazy gear smash between more is better and moderation of consumption / circularity / frugality. A lot of more more more in the sustainable / circular space is _itself_ problematic, either in the form of even more consumption in the name of But It’s Reusable (but then isn’t reused enough to justify the increased inputs) or in the form of obsessive attention to individual Zero Waste goals, rather than realizing it’s okay to generate the occasional plastic bag waste or whatever and the focus needs to be on helping other people consume less / be more circular / sustainable / etc., or, even better, reducing invisible consumption / increasing invisible sustainability.
I feel like decades of thinking about the waste stream and environmentalism and frugality and whatnot should have led me to a place of greater certainty of What We Ought to Do, and yet I feel like I know even less now than ever. Probably this is actually a good thing. One hopes, anyway.