It does look like “…the economy provides us with all of our products…,” as environmentalist David Suzuki writes. However, that is simply a belief, and an erroneous one at that. Suzuki clarifies that “This is nonsense, of course. Everything we depend on….comes from the earth and will eventually end up going back to it.” Whether it is paper, glass, steel, fiber, or even plastic, it helps to remember that those are all made from natural materials. But we have lost the connection to where those things really come from because our lives have become so abstract, so removed from nature. Because of the separation in our mind between man and nature, we separate ourselves literally from nature altogether, we eliminate it downright from our lives (and we tend to forget that our garbage ends up there as well - see my recent post on that subject). So here is my Earth Day thought-of-the-day:
