Weddings - waste of money / just a big over-spend... compared to what's going on?... mis-education, misdirection, just plain forgetting?

Can seem unrelated how weddings compare to climate change or changing the world but basically shows a false sense of priority by individuals and overall a sign showing commonly people might not even think things through or even think it's ok and just want to blow money almost. To spend money more than make sense of the world better...

That's the main point above if ever it's not clear....

So while they think about marriage the climate and everything is / has gone so almost, so "what use is marriage" one might ask apart from literally tying a knot / making a promise and legal stuff and yes maybe a party... hard to stop that avalanche of thought... but what about others... (that's the summary)

Here's the quote to connect the common sense bit together...

"We certainly can’t count on individuals doing the right thing. Not when the average couple still believes a wedding is worth spending the equivalent of what could feed them for five years (or pay their mortgage for two). "

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I mean the writer Phil sounds a bit like me about weddings (the ease of falling into social norms when neither person might not be religious (at all) and not really together long either) so does put it into context the "caring for planet" side of things asking in the rest of this text (copy will be be further down) when do people actually start caring and acting if all they do is things like this?

Almost more than each other or at the same time it's about saying- "wait a minute honey this is kind big-money-spending but also what are we not doing with our life (as growing our own food, helping the next generation) and how about we putting more love around everywhere, etc and not just spending it in each other isolated?)...

I remember buying a ring or two and taking it back, and also glad not to have tied the knot then. It's just not a place and time for these things and love often doesn't last.

The quote is from overall newsletter style send out every month of two about really living himself, now in Scotland but was in Spain recently before, and revolved around conscious being and eco-logic living. Conditions for "small is beautiful" type ways...

The send out on different topics is generally anti-system topics, as it can't but not be, and in each one more of a point-by-point controlled speech / rant pointing to more exact things but I thought anyway this one could be as mini-example and weddings are uncommon for a subject + good point about spending crazy amounts (weddings, crazy spending, real meaning of life on dying planet or just not really thinking ahead)

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A Simpler Life (blog monthly)
by phil rooksby - February 11

End Time approaching.

And with it, lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Just because global warming doesn’t feature as the main story in the news any more doesn’t mean temperatures aren’t still rising. This summer there are going to be so many new forest fires and areas hit by drought that parts of British Columbia (Canada)/ Alberta (Canada)/ Saskatchewan (Canada)/ Manitoba (Canada)/ Ontario (Canada)/ and Minnesota (USA) will probably become permanently uninhabitable. Right now, in the middle of winter, Spain is experiencing drought.

Here in Shetland a 3C rise in sea temperature has killed off 75,000 tons of farmed salmon. Around the coast of the Scottish mainland the rise was even higher, 6C. This could mean the end of fish farms in the UK.

We have to wake up to the fact that this is our new future. Major crop failures will be next, which given the ridiculous number of people there are on the planet right now, means starvation. Especially in the UK. Not that long ago the UK was self-sufficient in food, but then there were just 4 million of us. Today it’s 68 million and rising.

Oddly enough there is not a single sign of concern, not in the news or from our political leaders. Indeed it’s been very much the opposite. Shetland Islands Council (SIC) just unilaterally decided (as is their way) to cut yet more of the most necessary services (even though it is still the second wealthiest council in the UK), to divert more money into the pockets of its political and business friends. This time a private company called EnQuest, who wants to start producing hydrogen fuel from seawater. What that has to do with the council's remit is anyone’s guess, but even the most stupid among us can see such a venture is pointless, if there’s not going to be anyone left to use it. Same goes for the millions they want to spend building a new school. What SIC and our MSP/ MPs need to be focussing on right now is how we are going to deal with this climate emergency, and food security comes at the top of my list. Being able to grow enough food in Shetland for when TESCO is no more.

We certainly can’t count on individuals doing the right thing. Not when the average couple still believes a wedding is worth spending the equivalent of what could feed them for five years (or pay their mortgage for two). Then topping that off by having children. They haven’t even begun to realise what is happening out there.

They’re still eating meat/ fish/ and dairy, for goodness sake. Despite a plethora of information about the health risks of industrially produced food, as well as the obvious toxicity of eating anything taken from of our polluted oceans. They certainly don’t care a jot for the suffering of those creatures either. Makes me weep.

We have to be the most mentally deranged species on the planet. To watch ourselves become extinct and do nothing, while buying yet another Lottery ticket and praying to a god.

The only question left then, is what will it take before we (in the UK) wake up to what’s really happening? This summer will certainly be a turning point. Then after that there’s no going back, next stop extinction.

http://a-simpler-life.co.uk/2024/02/11/end-time-approaching/