My brother told me once not to get into his line of work because power plants are not always pretty. It's dirty work because the natural state of things is for everything to fall into disrepair and disharmony, a state of utter chaos. It is expensive and difficult to remediate environmental violations and code compliance is enforced by penalties.
The modern lifestyle is full of luxuries that we take for granted. We become addicted and dependent, blurring the line between wants and needs. We insist on bigger and better entertainment. Mobile data, internet, cloud - all nebulous concepts that somewhere have an unavoidable hidden entropy consequence.
We are afflicted with attitudes of laziness, callousness and entitlement. To maintain our lifestyle, too often we turn a blind eye. We put a band-aid on symptoms instead of removing the underlying causes. We go around complaining and pointing fingers instead of humbling ourselves by making personal sacrifices to address the problem through the labor of their own hands.
The cradle to grave approach unveils the hidden impacts of our choices - the costs on the back end: draining natural resources, rampant energy consumption, pollution. Our time and money is constantly being consumed on things that do not contribute significantly to our health and betterment. Our choices can be detrimental to all of creation - the world it is our duty as stewards to preserve.
The only way to decrease disorder and have a meaningful investment with a positive impact is to input work into the equation. Relationships take work, caring for your body takes work, meeting your physical needs and those of your family takes work, being effective stewards and preserving the earth and its resources takes work.
Are you willing to take ownership for the cradle-to-grave impact of your actions and choose the path of responsibility, even if it's not the easy path?
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