I must admit between climate change and brexit I have been working towards being as self sufficient in food as possible. It's not easy so I've also upped my game on foraging and food preservation. Some of my pals think I'm nuts but then joke they will know where to come if the worst happens cheeky blighters! I tell th no chance am I supporting you, get out there and look for yourself. So they say yes we'd like to learn. I arrange a foraging trip to teach them and they cancelled at last moment cos they want to go to a party. Shows how much they realy believe the necessity to provide food for themselves . I feel sorry for them. Supermarkets are their food source.
In my mind permaculture should be taught in schools from day one untill they leave. It seems to be quite fashionable to teach it in junior school but then it all stops as soon as they go to senior school .
A levels are not a great deal of good without knowing how to feed yourself without tesco and pizza hut! The last video will be looked on by some as typical American scaremongering but it contains the truth. It's a scary prospect and easy to turn your back and ignore the uncomfortable truth.
I've been a permaculturist and environmental campaigner for over 40 yrs and we've been telling about the waiting disaster of climate change all that time and been ignored and pooh poohed. Now even our young kids see what a mess we have made and are rightfully angry. It's their future we have messed with.
Someone said to me a while back I'm not bothered I'll be dead by then. What a selfish######d.! I asked them what about your kids and grandkids? They said well that's their problem!
I've come across this attitude again and again. It's not a one off.
Makes me really sad but I'll not give up. Extinction rebellion rally attendance planned for a couple of weeks time. If there is one in your area please support it and join in. Support your kids if they want to take Fridays off school to protest at the young persons climate change rallies . As one kid put it. What's the point of a levels if there is no world left for me to live in. No wander kids mental health is a problem nowadays. Her words are all it should take to galvanise everybody into action. The zombies are already here walking our streets daily. They haunt Starbucks and Macdonalds.