thought about this on the way home. you always hear them environmentalist or ecomentalist, as most of them are turning out to be, screaming in agony as a one of us human beings drops a piece of silver sweet wrapper somewhere in the grass. pointing at our big cars and saying it's the end of the world. hugging trees to make them grow stronger, better and to reassure them of a better future. you know the lot.
apparently the earth doesn't even care much about itself either, in my opinion. look at what happened on april 22nd, earth day. there was that massive icelandic volcano. interesting isn't it.
listen, earth is doing fine. the world has been around for millions of years. and it will remain so, unlike other people think so. apparently some people go so far as to say earth will disappear and be non-existent. now, i'm not a smart guy. nor am i some astronomer, scientist nor some doom-saying profession. but i try to get as much info as i can. you know, just to make myself a little more confident in passing some common sense around.
earth is fine. it's the people who are messed up. yeah. save the earth? hell no. i say save the people. our mindsets have changed just over a century. industrialization came about and ever since, we've been spewing shit into the rivers, air and whatever have we. and you can't just say save the world. cause we'll all be like some pikey. "eh, what world?" we need to stress this, save OURSELVES.
alright, i could carry on more, but i wanted to say what i was thinking. we need to start small. we are motivated by incentives, aren't we? we are.
see, Singapore Powers should start up by starting this incentive programme, to encourage people to start saving whatever we have and all. if just say a household saves an amount on their current bill compared to their previous, 10% of the difference between from both bills will be donated to some needy cause (the 10% could either be donated by SP or from the payment made by the consumer). if there isn't a saving, meaning a household uses more compared their previous bill, they will have to fork out an additional 10% of the difference, which will be donated to some needy cause.
it doesn't much but it actually kills two birds with one stone. but imagine each household saves 40cents. 10% of it is 4cents. a rough estimate of one million households in singapore. that's $400,000 per month of savings. and $40,000 of donations. now tell me, won't we fuckin' love that?
