How has global change affected our communities and ourselves?  

 

In our discussion after meeting around this first FWCC query, I recall the following learnings:

1) The level of noise has increased dramatically since we were young -- the children are used to living in a world of noise (sirens, boom boxes, cars, planes, ec.) and they all clamor to be heard. Unlike us, they do not know about a silent world and only hearing the sounds of nature (frogs, crickets, etc).

2) the wasteful material used to box all what we purchase (cardboard box, plastic); the use of disposal material in our everyday life (diapers, tissues,cleaning cloths).

3) the rapid growth and building in the area (removal of wet lands, trees for homes); the traffic increase.

4) I as one individual can not fix any of these problesm, I can only not continue to contribute to make it worse.

5) migration of peoples into the area and the many new languages being heard in the streets.(once again) -- Beth's note as typing thinking about the history of Charleston and all the new peoples settleing in this port city in the past --the French Huegenots, British, the German Hession soliders who stayed, african slave population, Irish sailors, Spainish (pirates?).

6) Send the $$$$ I would have spent on my own travel to minister to the poor in foreign lands to them -- the $$$$ could help them more.

7) we use machines to do our work -- no longer do we dig up the tree stumps, but use a back hoe -- other examples.

8) focusing on change and how hard it is to do individually, yet we as a society are in a constant state of change.  

 

 

 

 

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