Image by Getty Images via @daylifeRecently I read an interesting New York Times Week in Review entitled the Sustainable Life. The review focused on the three F's of modern life Family, Finance and Food. We are advised to view our marital/love interests as partnerships that allow "self expansion". The same management logic that contributed to the financial collapse of 2008 "self expansion" is the new mantra to sustain human intimate relationships. I wonder were children considered in their model of "self expansion" our probably the age old concept of the family that sometimes stressful network of parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins is it no longer sustainable.
No lets move on to the second "F" financial management or should I say lack of financial management. The attraction of easy gratification from credit card spending especially over the festive season has left many wishing they had exercised self control. This Christmas my wife and I purchased a Wii games console for my 7 year old son. A subsequent Google search for the manufacturers product carbon footprint information was proved much more elusive. However an obscure website NineOverTen 9/10 enlightened me that our purchase can contribute 0.011 tonnes of CO₂ annually if used for a minimum of two hours per day. After being bombarded by adverts of the latest Wii or Xbox games system and one's offspring who can blame the rational economic man from acting irrationally. This may have led some commentators to believe that budget is like a diet but enough about my personal failings in the self control department.
While we are busy watching the latest contestant to leave the X Factor competition there is no time to cook ... a Chinese Takeaway seems rational... so much for the concept of good food, soul food.. Anyway what's a diet....
No lets move on to the second "F" financial management or should I say lack of financial management. The attraction of easy gratification from credit card spending especially over the festive season has left many wishing they had exercised self control. This Christmas my wife and I purchased a Wii games console for my 7 year old son. A subsequent Google search for the manufacturers product carbon footprint information was proved much more elusive. However an obscure website NineOverTen 9/10 enlightened me that our purchase can contribute 0.011 tonnes of CO₂ annually if used for a minimum of two hours per day. After being bombarded by adverts of the latest Wii or Xbox games system and one's offspring who can blame the rational economic man from acting irrationally. This may have led some commentators to believe that budget is like a diet but enough about my personal failings in the self control department.
While we are busy watching the latest contestant to leave the X Factor competition there is no time to cook ... a Chinese Takeaway seems rational... so much for the concept of good food, soul food.. Anyway what's a diet....
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