436: You're right, it's not fair!

The notes I read from for this episode:

It's not fair!

• Back from picking up litter
• Forecast, a few inches of snow
• Just want coffee, not to dispose. Ancestors could
• Just want to travel, not pollute.
• Don't want to think about others all the time
• Just want to relax
• Tons of trash from last snow
• Asked cafe to ask people not to litter around trash
• Not our responsibility, city, customers
• Someone else, some other time, never me, never now
• Yet improves life
• So no, it's not fair. Others got to do without thinking what if we do, we hurt others, people far away
• But any parent knows responsibility improves, stewardship
• If we live by their values, tragic
• If we live by values of cultures that have endured, joy, community, connection
• So no, it's not fair, but what will you do about it
• What will you do about your contribution?
• Not zero.
• Lament? Take responsibility? Live in past? Create future?

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