This #lolcat wonders if you know how fortunate you are

A point we should keep reminding ourselves of.

Absolutely. Of course it doesn't feel nice to have to cut back on a bit of wellbeing but if we look at it honestly, we've been spoiled for decades. Unlimited growth of welfare is utopian. We need to take a step back in order to leave our grandchildren a livable planet. If we can't take ski trips in the summer to Dubai anymore, so be it. If we can't leave our Nespresso machines on stand by 24/7 but have to turn it off after use and have to wait twenty seconds for it to heat up again, that's just too bad. No more multi-milllionaires driving in circles in cars that cost millions, waisting millions in fossil fulls? Terrible for some but it wil give nature some extra time to heal.

It's probably not the excesses, though, but the things we don't think of as excesses: living in a suburban single-family house with a lawn and driving 40 minutes to work in a car by yourself, eating watermelon all year, lots of things we don't even see.

Absolutely. Things like hot and cold running water. Having five children and see all becoming adults. We take it all for granted. All those things we consider 'normal' and even claim to have a right to.

I do think everybody should have the right to see their children grow up to adulthood, but most people shouldn't have the right to have an electric sidewalk in their house to walk on so they can burn the extra calories from food that they didn't need (which someone else desperately needs).

Agreed! Had a discussion with a manager who said he was entitled to all his luxury 'because I worked hard for it!' 'Are you saying children in cobalt mines so you can drive a car and use a smartphone do not?' Couldn't stand the guy anymore so I quit that job.

When I was a youngster the earth's population was estimated at 3 billion. I thought it was overcrowded then.

Ah, those were the days! 😊