Hot Day
Posted by mikedotephoto on June 10, 2008
So, instead of writing a review about cameras today, I decided to have a day full of action. I kicked an windowsill in, was a rock star, photographer, and I saw things in a new light.
The world is a crazy place. We all want different things.
PC Richard and son had a tremendous day today, owing to temperatures close to 100 degrees. They sold a whole lot of airconditioners. The store was jam-packed for the first time in a long time.
Some people carried air conditioners
Other times, air conditioners carried them.
Speaking as someone who is currently still part of the problem, one thing that all of this air-conditioning makes me think about is the carbon footprint that is make by the way we live. We always need the bigger TV, the better gaming system, the best job, the most money. We don’t realize the impact our ambition that is inherent to us as human beings has an impact upon the planet.
Because we are hot, because we are irate… because we have caused some degree of change in the environment and upset the equilibrium that naturally exists within our planet, we suffer. We either pay our money of to the electric company, the giant manufacturing companies, or we suffer the heat.
These air conditions take resources to produce, and cost money. There’s got to be a better way to do things. We can either learn to keep our cools and be levelheaded when the temperature is high, or we can come up with some better solution. How about a solar-powered air conditioner, that generates the power it needs to run from the sun? How about a housing structure that keeps the cool in, and the heat out during the summers, and something that keeps the house warm during the winter with a sustainable energy source? How about using some of the funding used to develop military technology, to develop a more efficient way to avoid a global energy crisis?
I’m sure all of this has been thought up before. We are in a world of billions of interconnected people. The problem lies not in the connections that we make, but in the way that they’re dealt with. The world I see is not solely my world- it is a world that belongs to everyone. We must live to make this world the best possible place that it can be. We should not be petty, or mean, or judgmental. We should forgive those who have done harm to us and we should do what’s right. We should offer comfort to those who are downtrodden. We should do our best to make each person we can influence into a better person, a happier person, instead of trying to compete with them.
The last photo I’ll show for the day is by far, one of my favorite photos. I took the photograph in the one split second that providence provided to me- I shot this photo while in the process helping with an air-conditioner installation. There’s a lot that makes it an interesting photograph, and by far, it’s one of my favorites.
