A SPOILED SOCIETY

One has to wonder about the future of the human race. Are we really a spoiled society? Have we lost the capacity to care for ourselves? Do we expect governments to take care of us? I don’t have all the answers, but I believe we have reached a point where we need to slow down and reevaluate our needs.

We talk about combating climate change, but no one wants to give up all the things we think we need. Talk of electric cars, self-driving cars, big incentives from government to buy electric cars. Incentives that only the rich can draw benefit from. No one wants to talk about where all this extra electric demand will come from.

What we should be asking is: do we need these things?

I understand the City of Montreal has electric buses; however, they need a small diesel engine aboard to generate heat for passenger comfort. Really! People will be out of the weather, why do they need heat, dress warmly. People can use bicycles to get to work, etc. Yet they will tell you, they can’t use bicycles in a Canadian winter. Perhaps they need to ask our ancestors how they got about in winter. No cars, no snowmobiles, horses, sleds and snowshoes. We have become a lazy society that expects everything to be ready when we want it. A society that expects our problems and issues to be solved by someone else.

Homeless people are not this way because they can’t/ won’t work or are just lazy. It’s because of greed, landlords. Property owners and big business. The family businesses, hardware stores, grocers’ shops, clothing suppliers all gone, swallowed up by conglomerates. Food for thought, something to think about before we descend into utter chaos.

F. Ben Rodgers, Abram Village