Think back on your life and you can remember good times and bad times.  There were days of fun and moments of pain, but it is the moments of impact we remember the most.  The teacher that believed in you or a parent or friend who said the right thing at a hard time, are the memories that define us as individuals.  I was told at a young age that I had only a finite time to experience the world, then it was my time to live in it.  An innocence lost, an end of time of dreams and the dawn of the time of action. 

Here we all are now at that time, how will we impact the immediate and distant future? Never before has the future been so uncertain, yet it might be a freedom we are yielded one in a generation.  The capitalistic machinery is in dire trouble and it’s going to require a massive change to stay powerful and efficient.  Going on 50 years, the world has rushed to a global existence without concern of the outcome.  Areas in America are ghost towns because cheaper states and countries have stolen the business and the industries.

Survival of the fittest was a theory about how living things must adapt to environmental changes.  The idea that in a dramatic change to local ecology, organisms that had a trait that seem unimportant before the change becomes a defining characteristic for adaptability.  Many believe this theory discusses only the strongest surviving, but it is incredibly different from that.  The key is adaptability and utilizing your characteristics to create a new life possibility.  What are our choices?

We could fight to keep the status quo and return to a central government that has for a long time failed to represent the will of the majority and have been poor stewards of the ecology.  This will ultimately fail because it won’t adapt to the new normal when it comes to health care and dealing both with this pandemic and the ones to come.  There is another way and it’s exciting and promising.  Resettle Earth! Rethink what you call garbage and learn to live/work/buy locally.  Transportation was the boom 100 years ago, and we still are basically doing the same thing.  It’s time for a complete paradigm shift from that antiquated system.  High speed trains, the banning of the use of fossil fuels, and a shift to only renewable energy would change the Earth in 10 years.  The effect could be dramatic at a time that demands dramatic change. 

The age of the disposable is over and the age of re-usability has begun.  The idea of component driven consumer products with built obsolescence has created a mountain of metallic waste that is extremely expensive to recycle.  That must change, we must demand it.  Our money will drive the economy and requiring goods to be repairable needs to be a consideration.  This starts in the home and is simple, just evaluate and change one thing at a time.  Start with making homemade cleaning products, it’s very easy, just make them at home.  Then focus on garbage and what you throw out.  Just by being mindful, you can cut your waste in half without making any big changes.  Most importantly, be kind to your sanitation team that keeps your area clean, they are one of the important backbones of modern society and should be valued.

Spend locally and be involved.  People who join together for a common purpose seem to put their personal differences aside to help a cause.  I do my best to promote home gardening with the use of commercial products.  I grow as much as I can and I am always available for a new gardener who needs help or direction.   I believe that food is freedom and I act to further that idea.  I also believe that the government has no right to tell me what I can or can’t grow for personal use.  Yes I’m gonna try again to grow my own ganja and do my best to share what I produce.  The times require that I try, I must defy the short-sighted illegality of cannabis cultivation, I must act for the general good and my personal freedom.

How will you use this point of impact to change the world?