Am I too hard on humans?

 

I'm certain that there are those who think I'm too hard on humans. I would disagree. As a species, we're obviously not listening to those of us who are trying desperately to get people to pay attention to nature and what it has to teach us about survival and a happy, comfortable life. Case in point. Milo, Max and I were walking in Black Fox Hollow this morning. It was a beautiful fall morning and was almost perfect until someone started up their leaf blower. Yesterday it was chain saws and leaf blowers. (The noise just never stops when you're near a town.) I couldn't help but think . . . dang, we're no ways near as smart as we think. That person is removing the leaves (nutrients and protection) from their yard so that they can work for 3.31 hours (at an average US wage rate) to buy "fall lawn food" for the same area from which they had removed nature's free fall lawn food. Is that smart? I almost forgot, they also had to work for 19.86 hours to buy an average priced blower. That means that they had to work for most of 3 days, to spend $262.51 (avg total) on what nature was quite efficiently and effortlessly doing for FREE. Now tell me how smart we are. LOL


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