An article in the Guardian this week suggested that as we have now started growing crops to feed our cars as well as our stomachs, we're definitely going to have to start to rely more on GM crops, just to get bigger yields we're going to need. In reply, a spokesman from the Soil Association suggested that rather than grow more GM crops, perhaps we could all eat a little less meat.
Long silence...
How often do you hear anyone in a position of authority suggest that we might get by with less of anything? It's funny but it made me realise how alien that concept actually is to most of us in the West, and I'm in there with everyone else. Yet to make a difference environmentally, sometimes, I think it's obvious we're going to have to do with less (or sometimes without). I salute Mr Soil Association man in sticking his neck out and saying the un-PC unsayable. Has anyone else got any examples of authority figures saying similar things? Is it really so rare?
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Ethical Heroes (formally known as The Compost Heap) is run by Ethical Jobs and is dedicated to short, informative and, hopefully, inspirational interviews with some of the many people who are now working in one way or another within the ethical sector. Society's "Ethical Heroes" for want of a better definition.
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It's not intended to be a Who's Who of the Green World. The hardest work in the charitable, ethical and environmental sectors is often done by un-named volunteers who give freely of their time for the causes they cherish.
But for those of you looking for gainful employment, the idea is to demonstrate how accessible "ethical" work really is, how "normal" the people who do it are, and how easy it is to actually make a difference to the world we live in.
If you want to find out more about what the people featured here do, or the organisations they're involved with, look for the links to their websites near the bottom of each interview.
Keep in touch with new interviews as they are added by using our RSS feed! Just click on the orange logo in the right hand side of the address bar of your browser. (This works very well with personalised Google or Yahoo homepages as well as feed readers like Bottom feeder.)
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1 comment:
I have often wondered why we have to keep on consuming more of everything. We are rapidly depleting and degrading the Earth's resources and I seriously doubt whether there truly is such a thing as "sustainable" development - we are currently a long way from that goal at present. Is there no other viable model for our society than one based on economic growth?
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