No impact? Holy crap! Aren't we too far in now?

I'm watching No-Impact Man and it's making me think a little, just a little. For most of the movie, both Michelle and Colin seem very selfish about their own lives and you can tell that the communication is not there. I see this every day, people (including myself) not communicating with their spouse, co-workers, family, etc and wonder why everything comes crashing down when the sh!t hit the fan. So here are my thoughts about "No impact."

1. Regardless who or what you are, you have an impact. Irrespective of if you are a human, a bear, a groundhog, a worm, everything has an impact.

2. Natural cycles do not mean that everything is OK. Pine beetles may ravage entire forests and turn these into ready light matchsticks, this does not mean that it's fine because it's nature. Sometimes the nature of things works over millions of years but not always when less than 100 is involved.

3. Unless you live in a house and have a plot of land in a warm climate, self sufficiency is a load of crock. We are too far gone from how our great grandparents lived. If we decided to go back to a life of farm work, we would need to band together as a community to make things work. How much community to we see now? Especially when you can open your garage door and park the car inside without even saying hi to the neighbors.

4. We are all selfish. Period!

So now I have my "New Square Foot Gardening" book and will be able to reduce my dependence on grocery veggies for at least 3 months because that's how long the summer lasts here. If there is anything that really peeves me off, it's the short summer.

I have a lot of "plans" to reduce my impact but everything in our lives take some form of electricity to work. To reduce my consumption, here is a list of what I want to change:

a: Change all our computers to Laptops.

b: Convert to Geo-Thermal heating.

c: Umm, that's it for now I suppose.

I've counted my computers (not counting my work computer) and I have a grand total of 5! I'll be selling one off in the next few days. 2 computers run at least 16 hours a day so reducing the average 140w/hr down to about 12 is a good start.

It's really early here so most of this is probably just rambling but hopefully I can come back to this in a month and say "Hey! I managed to do something,"

Later!