Mottainai Earth - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

There are so many things around us that we waste, and it’s depressing to see the amount of trash we create. Back home in Japan I may be the last tear of the dinosaurs who remember the times our mothers would go to fish store or meat shop to buy fresh produce. Unlike supermarkets, they’d wrap their merchandise simple and minimal, usually with thin paper, or sometimes not at all; vegetables etc. were just thrown in the baskets that we’d bring. Several blocks away there was a Tofu store where the family got up very early in the morning to make fresh Tofu every day. The husband would carry a wooden crate full of Tofu on the back of his scooter every late afternoon to deliver to the neighborhood. When he blew his horn to announce his arrival, we’d come out with a bowl and he’d delicately scoop up a Tofu into it. Sadly, nowadays all those small stores are gone and replaced by supermarkets.

Anyway … I just watched a program about the formation of the earth on the History Channel. It took hundreds of millions of years to get where we are. It is sad that human can destroy all that in mere couple of hundred years.