I see stores having sale after sale, and few seem to be buy. I find myself cooking more at home and searching the newspaper ads for the best prices on food. I also ask myself do I really need this more and more.

Things that are on sale that I really do not need.

I love you, but

The real question is whether our lack of stewardship of the Earth is contributing to a change in the global climate. During the time of the dinosaurs, my home state was underwater, and the land areas of Montana were hot and humid. The Earth’s climate does change with time, but are we speeding up the changes? Are we with our wasteful use of resources making this a permanent change? Would it hurt us to be better stewards of the only home we have? We are maybe entering a time when we must pay the piper for greed and wastefulness that is a part of everyday life. Growing up with parents that lived as adults during the Great Depression, I have the skills to use resources to the fullest; now I must learn to forget the ways of the consumer corporations that encourage us to use and throw away everything.