It's Suspiciously Easy Being Green
Remember the old song, "It's Not That Easy Bein' Green"? Well, it seems that lately Green is a suspiciously easy thing to be. Everyone, it seems, is Green.
Being Green is a business. I have nothing against business; I'm in a business myself. I'm in the people business. The people business - not the recycled plastic bag business. The battered young women business - not the bamboo flooring business. The spouses who think they can make people stop drinking business - not the solar heating business.
I sometimes wonder if the problems of the Green movement seem more attractive because they have solutions.
For example, we still don't know what makes a person become a pedophile. Also, we know what makes a teenaged girl go back to her abusive boyfriend for more. But it's hard to stop her. We know why fewer boys are continuing on to college, and yet, the numbers aren't climbing.
I wonder who the Green people are saving the world for? Another generation of watchful secret-keepers who were verbally/physically/sexually abused as children? Who is going to enjoy those oceans? Another generation of women who stopped wearing shorts at 13? Who is going to live to a ripe old age eating that chemical-free food? The women who cannot be pursuaded to have mammograms?
Sometimes I wonder if it is, indeed, the mystery that draws me into the people business. People are complicated, glorious creatures - and I love them.
At least, they interest me more than recycling, which I do, along with growing a lot of my own food.
So what am I saying? I'm just saying that I am glad to be doing what I do, because I believe in it. Just as the person who sells bamboo flooring believes in its power to change the world, I believe in you, and your power to change your world.