Re: Tourists are Killing the Planet
Posted: Thu 10 May 2018, 15:08:16
Thanks for your thoughtful insights, Revi!
And for the record, KJ, may mother's mother was assassinated by communists, so, no, mom did not sing me to sleep in my cradle with Marxist lullabies!
Ibon, when I was fairly young I had ascetic aspirations, though these days it would just look like being homeless--everything I owned on my back, never getting in any motorized vehicles, eating mostly just enough to keep body and soul together, meditating under a Zen Roshi 5 hours a day (except during sesshins, when it was more like 15 hours a day)...
These days with a house full of books and other stuff and many other comforts, I would never consider myself ascetic by any means. I live very, very comfortably. I do work nearly everyday with 'homeless' whom I would now consider to be much closer to the ascetic ideal, though mostly that was not their intention.
Flying and eating a lot of meat are things that are odd and rare, by any current or historical measure. Not flying was, of course, what everyone 'did' before the Wright brothers a mere hundred years ago. And, most people currently and in the past being poor, few regularly had access to large amounts of meat to eat daily, so most people most of the time in most cultures were mostly vegan.
So really, vegan non-flyers are not some kind of weird ascetics or whatever special name one wants to come up with. It is regular flyers (only about 6% of the world's population are thought to fly regularly) and heavy meat eaters (more than an a few ounces a week) that are the outliers, and who truly deserve to have therefore 'marked' terms applied to them, perhaps flesh-glutton, jet-setter planet destroyers, perhaps??
https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-plane ... 180957719/
And for the record, KJ, may mother's mother was assassinated by communists, so, no, mom did not sing me to sleep in my cradle with Marxist lullabies!
Ibon, when I was fairly young I had ascetic aspirations, though these days it would just look like being homeless--everything I owned on my back, never getting in any motorized vehicles, eating mostly just enough to keep body and soul together, meditating under a Zen Roshi 5 hours a day (except during sesshins, when it was more like 15 hours a day)...
These days with a house full of books and other stuff and many other comforts, I would never consider myself ascetic by any means. I live very, very comfortably. I do work nearly everyday with 'homeless' whom I would now consider to be much closer to the ascetic ideal, though mostly that was not their intention.
Flying and eating a lot of meat are things that are odd and rare, by any current or historical measure. Not flying was, of course, what everyone 'did' before the Wright brothers a mere hundred years ago. And, most people currently and in the past being poor, few regularly had access to large amounts of meat to eat daily, so most people most of the time in most cultures were mostly vegan.
So really, vegan non-flyers are not some kind of weird ascetics or whatever special name one wants to come up with. It is regular flyers (only about 6% of the world's population are thought to fly regularly) and heavy meat eaters (more than an a few ounces a week) that are the outliers, and who truly deserve to have therefore 'marked' terms applied to them, perhaps flesh-glutton, jet-setter planet destroyers, perhaps??
https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-plane ... 180957719/