I'm old enough to remember what the world was like before supermarkets and freeways and washing machines and televisions. I liked it better, then. The change has been appalling. I grew up in the Australian bush, grew to love nature and the land and now spend much of my time gardening and trying to live as much as I can without making an impact on the environment. I grow much of my own food, don't have a car, walk everywhere, turn my mobile (cell phone) on but twice a year, keep everything switched off in the house, buy food that I can't grow myself locally if possible - I sound like a bit of a prat (saint, sorry, have to keep translating the Australian
) and I most certainly am not that, but I find it more and more important now in my daily life to do what I can.
My interest in the environment has grown even stronger recently with the environmental disasters that are looming (read: almost here) in Australia.