"Try living for a week on $2 a day."
Living in our times (and some of us being born in these times) has made us a little oblivious as to how difficult it once was to get the resources not just for our daily routine... but for surviving. We take housing, clothing, food (and all of it's associated know-how as cooking, preserving, refrigerating) water supply, heat and lighting and many many other commodities - that have been brought so close to the general population so abundantly - for granted.
We have forgotten from out grandfathers and their grandfathers (or never wondered to ask) how people got by without refrigerators, without cars, without food delivery or without laundry machines. Still here we are. People somehow got by. Of course concern those days was focused on the more basic of needs. It was more important having a roof over your head than having said roof on some certain high appeal area. It was more important having food in the first place than worrying about how to cook it and what to serve it with. For those of us living in urban areas the thought of such societies being in existence even today doesnt cross our mind (or maybe it does but we dont think much about and just get preoccupied with something else in a matter of seconds).
We - first as individuals and later as a group - must find a certain degree of simplicity when it comes to resource management. Recognise the importance of a resource, refrain from using unnecessary resources and free up or return resources for the rest to use. Don't wait for envimental groups to take action or philanthropists to feed the hungry, or the politicians to save the poor. Do whatever u can on your end, be as efficient as you can be, use resources wisely and help produce new resources.
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