tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31006871.post4786565690578977626..comments2008-08-03T03:43:27.336+02:00Comments on The Art of Engineering - Create better products: Volunteering to DieDuncan Drennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18356141566912975917noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31006871.post-62814959144101787432008-08-03T03:43:00.000+02:002008-08-03T03:43:00.000+02:002008-08-03T03:43:00.000+02:00I admire your heroic way of saving our planet. Had...I admire your heroic way of saving our planet. Had all of us thinks in common points as you do then this world gets better to live by.<BR/><BR/>Brilliant!emjasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31006871.post-68871711736380372422008-07-29T09:07:00.000+02:002008-07-29T09:07:00.000+02:002008-07-29T09:07:00.000+02:00Man, I got shivers when I read that. We all have ...Man, I got shivers when I read that. We all have to wake up and start seeing our habits for what they are - excessive and profligate - but it sometimes takes a strong statement, like yours, for the truth to hit home. <BR/><BR/>The further down the path of sustainable living that I go, the more I realise how wasteful I have been in my life, and I marvel at how, even now, those old thought-patterns still rear their ugly heads from time to time (even though it happens less and less these days) <BR/><BR/>And the further I get from the obsessive consumption of stuff (the things that are supposed to make us all happier, but never do), the happier I do get. <BR/><BR/>Being the optimist that I am, though, I think my take on 'volunteering to die' would be seeing it as the kind of 'death' that is not the end of something, but is rather something necessary for rebirth - rebirth as a better, happier, one-planet (or less) kind of girl. <BR/><BR/>inspiring post... thanks :-)piahttp://www.mothercityliving.co.za/noreply@blogger.com