Before long it will be our great grandchildren’s world, and things need to change for them to have a chance at a healthy happy existence. It is still possible for the earth to be a healthy place for them to live. and it is possible the great grandchildren’s world to exist in a world of equality which seems imaginary to our capitalistic state of worldly exchange.
With so much toxic environmental waste and economic unfairness in the world, slave labor, illegal child exploitation, unhealthy and hazardous work conditions we should vote with our purchase. Its not always possible sometimes there unfortunately is not an option to buy a greener and fairer option, but each time we choose to vote with our purchases we pave the way in market trends for it to become in the land of tomorrow. and for that world our great grandchildren may thank us there ancestors for shifting the course of existence.
Buy buying the less toxic version, or the non toxic version, by buying the product where the worker is payed a fairer pay and healthy work conditions by choosing a sustainable timber wooden guitar instead of the illegally felled endangered mahogany, or not buying the amber beads which were mined buy hazardous child labor we vote with our purchase for a better great grandchildren world.
Wendell Berry The Unforeseen Wilderness: ‘An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge’
“a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children…”
After all it is the children and the great great great grandchildren that our collective legacy is inherited by. Our vote what kind of world we leave for them in our wake is in the choices we make and the vote in our purchase.
There are many fair trade and ethical purchases available on our site that help fantastic people rise from poverty, and even make beauty out of our waste such as these telephone wire bowls.
