That's a great story! A brilliant initiative! A democratic act! A global "chorus"! I am supporting it with all my powers and deep inside of me I am wishing that as thinking leads to typing, reading will lead to acting...
So, here I am posting something related to the environment; every blogger, his/her own points of view, approaches, concerns and ideas. It's been a month more or less that I got to know about this Action Day and since then, with different intensity, I was thinking of what to post. When I stopped thinking, the topics appeared! Magic :) Reading Sunday's newspapers and magazines and preparing my self for the next training course that I am in involved in, starting in 2 days, was enough for me to say "well, that is what I want the world to know from me"...
Army. I am hating it, I always did...It's the worst thing that happened in my life although I had, at most points, an easy time there; what made it shit was boredom, meaninglessnesses, extended money spending, surrounding of immense stupidity settled on non-operating brains...And the article I read came just in time to make me hate it more. Let me explain in brief. OK, you all probably know about the fires that took place at the end of the summer, right? You can all understand the extend of destruction that took place, right? You all feel a pain in your soul seeing all these burning trees, right? (if no, I kindly ask you to get the fuck out of these pages). You all probably assume that it was less than little that the governments did in advance in order to ensure non-destruction, right? Well, a couple of prominent figures (I am throwing up in between), with such brilliant brains (throwing up continues) are thinking of and investigating the possibility, citizens to join the army in cases of emergency and high danger for the state and the well being of its people, such as fires, extreme weather conditions and more. So practically, Sakis, who has been washing dishes and guarding empty storerooms for 18 months, will be asked to save the planet called Greece in cases and places where even highly trained and specialized forces have little possibilities to do so. Moreover, no attention from the state is actually being paid to all these non governmental environmental organizations that are doing incredible job in awareness raising, sensitization and even protection of the forests and the environments. No specific measures and mechanisms towards the support of volunteers are actually implemented; it was enough to squish them during the Olympics, Greece will be asking for their "helping hands" in 100 years, when we will probably again claim our historical rights to host this show. In few words, either these people are completely stupid and brainless, or they want to support an ill, almost dying, factor of today's reality in Greece (and all gold-figures-filled-collars entities) expecting to be supported in return...in the next elections. The message: the environmental crisis should not be the excuse for wars, terrorism, financial profit, vote-hunting and most of all, should not be left in the hands of bold, tie-wearing, over aged "burnt" politicians; or at least, not exclusively to them...Should I say now, that WE must take the situation in our hands or is it too obvious?
Outdoors. There is a session, in the training course that I designed and I will be "delivering" the next days, on the future challenges for outdoor education. Climate change and environmental crisis! There you go. Non profit organizations and educational institutions must invest on that before profit-making corporations get the whole of the pie. Because certainly, this "global effort" towards the saving of our planet will trigger an amazingly diverse amount of action, activities, mechanisms, processes, meetings over meetings, papers over papers and so on. The so called "outdoor education", I believe it will be one of these fields that will go through a "golden era" now that our planet's dooms day is approaching rapidly. Cause indeed, I found out, after going through different researches and documentation, outdoor education is not as popular as it used to be 20 years ago. A main reason for that is related to schools and budget cutting from the states; whenever there was needed a budget cutting in education in highly developed countries the last years, the first sections that were suffering from that were the outdoor education programs and field trips! Meaning that for a child's education, environmental awareness, harmony with the nature, wise use of resources, personal integrity and development (among countless others) count less than math, history and bla bla bla...I am almost forced to think in the radical and multidimensional connect-the-unconnected way that the author of "Freakonomics" thinks by saying that it is of no surprise why forest fires and environmental damage are greater than ever before...because some passing-by, stiff and brainless, superficially human, anorgasmic (we use it in Greece...) politician decided some years ago to cut budgets for education; and consequently he/she decided for the fate of this planet that belongs to everyone...grrrrrrrrr, if I ever find this butterfly... So, yeah, outdoor education, but in the hands of people and communities of practice, of groups and organizations, not - only - profit makers. The last lines was the message.
Keep the lights off tonight, light up a candle...And if you are in for some meaningful melancholy, go through the pictures of burnt trees while listening to Graig Armstrong's "As if to nothing" album...
S.
So, here I am posting something related to the environment; every blogger, his/her own points of view, approaches, concerns and ideas. It's been a month more or less that I got to know about this Action Day and since then, with different intensity, I was thinking of what to post. When I stopped thinking, the topics appeared! Magic :) Reading Sunday's newspapers and magazines and preparing my self for the next training course that I am in involved in, starting in 2 days, was enough for me to say "well, that is what I want the world to know from me"...
Army. I am hating it, I always did...It's the worst thing that happened in my life although I had, at most points, an easy time there; what made it shit was boredom, meaninglessnesses, extended money spending, surrounding of immense stupidity settled on non-operating brains...And the article I read came just in time to make me hate it more. Let me explain in brief. OK, you all probably know about the fires that took place at the end of the summer, right? You can all understand the extend of destruction that took place, right? You all feel a pain in your soul seeing all these burning trees, right? (if no, I kindly ask you to get the fuck out of these pages). You all probably assume that it was less than little that the governments did in advance in order to ensure non-destruction, right? Well, a couple of prominent figures (I am throwing up in between), with such brilliant brains (throwing up continues) are thinking of and investigating the possibility, citizens to join the army in cases of emergency and high danger for the state and the well being of its people, such as fires, extreme weather conditions and more. So practically, Sakis, who has been washing dishes and guarding empty storerooms for 18 months, will be asked to save the planet called Greece in cases and places where even highly trained and specialized forces have little possibilities to do so. Moreover, no attention from the state is actually being paid to all these non governmental environmental organizations that are doing incredible job in awareness raising, sensitization and even protection of the forests and the environments. No specific measures and mechanisms towards the support of volunteers are actually implemented; it was enough to squish them during the Olympics, Greece will be asking for their "helping hands" in 100 years, when we will probably again claim our historical rights to host this show. In few words, either these people are completely stupid and brainless, or they want to support an ill, almost dying, factor of today's reality in Greece (and all gold-figures-filled-collars entities) expecting to be supported in return...in the next elections. The message: the environmental crisis should not be the excuse for wars, terrorism, financial profit, vote-hunting and most of all, should not be left in the hands of bold, tie-wearing, over aged "burnt" politicians; or at least, not exclusively to them...Should I say now, that WE must take the situation in our hands or is it too obvious?
Outdoors. There is a session, in the training course that I designed and I will be "delivering" the next days, on the future challenges for outdoor education. Climate change and environmental crisis! There you go. Non profit organizations and educational institutions must invest on that before profit-making corporations get the whole of the pie. Because certainly, this "global effort" towards the saving of our planet will trigger an amazingly diverse amount of action, activities, mechanisms, processes, meetings over meetings, papers over papers and so on. The so called "outdoor education", I believe it will be one of these fields that will go through a "golden era" now that our planet's dooms day is approaching rapidly. Cause indeed, I found out, after going through different researches and documentation, outdoor education is not as popular as it used to be 20 years ago. A main reason for that is related to schools and budget cutting from the states; whenever there was needed a budget cutting in education in highly developed countries the last years, the first sections that were suffering from that were the outdoor education programs and field trips! Meaning that for a child's education, environmental awareness, harmony with the nature, wise use of resources, personal integrity and development (among countless others) count less than math, history and bla bla bla...I am almost forced to think in the radical and multidimensional connect-the-unconnected way that the author of "Freakonomics" thinks by saying that it is of no surprise why forest fires and environmental damage are greater than ever before...because some passing-by, stiff and brainless, superficially human, anorgasmic (we use it in Greece...) politician decided some years ago to cut budgets for education; and consequently he/she decided for the fate of this planet that belongs to everyone...grrrrrrrrr, if I ever find this butterfly... So, yeah, outdoor education, but in the hands of people and communities of practice, of groups and organizations, not - only - profit makers. The last lines was the message.
Keep the lights off tonight, light up a candle...And if you are in for some meaningful melancholy, go through the pictures of burnt trees while listening to Graig Armstrong's "As if to nothing" album...
S.
