It came to me yesterday as I was cutting up Onions for our evening meal of Bolognais that in the dim and distant past, the servants of a big house would have been punished for throwing away anything that was of use to the family that employed them.
The punishment was more likely than not, a reduction in the servants pay.
Things such as
We are having to relearn the habits that were obvious to our forebears.
There were other things that got used that maybe were not the responsibility of servants
For example Urine was used to
bleach hair
treat Dandruff
bleach fabrics
as a mordant in dying
a compost starter
People have become far too fussy,too squeamish to see what is in front of their own eyes and nose.
We have an abundance of materials on which to live and many of them are thrown out like the proverbial baby with the bath water .
Some people are talking about how we will all cope when the Oil stops either being produced at all or at least offered in the west.
I think we will have to go back to the ways of our Ancestors and start to rediscover the resources we once had.
We are much luckier than they, as we know about Solar and Wind and water turbines and how to store Energy in Batteries.
I cant help thinking that life would be cleaner and Healthier if Oil were to become a scarcity.
There are plenty of people who are already trying their best to reduce their own impact on the earth and finding that in the process their lives are enriched and become less stressful.
One of my favourites is the No impact man
The punishment was more likely than not, a reduction in the servants pay.
Things such as
- Ash
- soot
- dust
- bones
- peelings(I had just added ours to the compost tub in the kitchen)
- old paper
- card
- broken pots
- food left overs
- Fat
- Blood
- rags
- string
- Shells
We are having to relearn the habits that were obvious to our forebears.
There were other things that got used that maybe were not the responsibility of servants
For example Urine was used to
bleach hair
treat Dandruff
bleach fabrics
as a mordant in dying
a compost starter
People have become far too fussy,too squeamish to see what is in front of their own eyes and nose.
We have an abundance of materials on which to live and many of them are thrown out like the proverbial baby with the bath water .
Some people are talking about how we will all cope when the Oil stops either being produced at all or at least offered in the west.
I think we will have to go back to the ways of our Ancestors and start to rediscover the resources we once had.
We are much luckier than they, as we know about Solar and Wind and water turbines and how to store Energy in Batteries.
I cant help thinking that life would be cleaner and Healthier if Oil were to become a scarcity.
There are plenty of people who are already trying their best to reduce their own impact on the earth and finding that in the process their lives are enriched and become less stressful.
One of my favourites is the No impact man
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