A Salutary Lesson
To treat a malaria outbreak in Borneo in the 1950s, the World Health Organization (WHO) sprayed DDT to kill mosquitoes.
But the DDT also killed parasitic wasps which were controlling thatch-eating caterpillars.
The cats perished, which led to the multiplication of rats, and then outbreaks of sylvatic plague and typhus.
And?
So, what has this little story got to do with self-sufficiency, I hear you ask?
For to be self-sufficient it is important to engage with the World, Nature and develop awareness of consequences.
What will happen to this packaging?
Where does my waste water go?
In other words, make it your business to engage and understand why things are as they are!
Not the Earth, for that will go on, but humankind teeters on the brink of destruction…SELF-destruction.
And we are part of it all the time we fail to engage fully with our state of living.
I listened to a woman berate a caller to a rather mediocre radio show here in Ireland.
The woman was stating that if people stopped killing animals, we would be over-run with rats…Veganism was being held up as a possible curse upon the country!
More and more people are trotting out banal statements without engaging with the problem they talk about.
But it can be seen many scores of nights in any year, and so the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead.
And because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.”
Rachel Carson
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Missy, the ginger cat, has become a Bealtaine Angel…sadly missed in life, but a huge presence all around!
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